Robert pal: Coach, Facilitator, and Strategist
I work with entrepreneurs, executives, and professionals who have ADHD and know they are capable of more, but feel stuck between their potential and their day-to-day execution.
My work focuses on helping them develop greater clarity, focus, and self-leadership by addressing the internal patterns that influence productivity, decision-making, relationships, and leadership.
Earlier in my career, I built and led a successful international fashion business for more than two decades. That experience gave me a firsthand understanding of the pressure, responsibility, and complexity that come with leadership and entrepreneurship.
Over time, my focus shifted toward a different challenge: helping adults with ADHD overcome the internal patterns that often limit their execution, leadership, and relationships.
Today I combine real-world entrepreneurial experience with evidence-based psychology, mindfulness, and behavioral strategy to help clients create lasting change, both professionally and personally.
Many of the people I work with are navigating challenges related to ADHD, overwhelm, focus, leadership pressure, and decision-making while trying to align their professional success with a more meaningful and balanced life.
If you're capable of more, but execution is inconsistent, this 20-minute conversation will help determine whether working together makes sense.
My Work Often Focuses on Helping Clients:
• Regain clarity and focus
• Develop stronger leadership presence
• Navigate ADHD and executive functioning challenges
• Build healthier professional and personal relationships
• Lead themselves with greater awareness and discipline
With decades of leadership experience and more than ten years coaching entrepreneurs and professionals, I bring a rare combination of business insight and psychological depth to my work.
My approach helps clients move beyond surface-level productivity strategies to address the deeper patterns that influence focus, leadership, decision-making, and long-term fulfillment.
Who I Typically Work With
Most of my clients are USA and Canadians entrepreneurs, executives, and professionals who are highly capable but navigating challenges related to focus, ADHD, leadership pressure, and decision-making.
Many are successful in their fields but want greater clarity, stronger execution, and a more sustainable approach to leadership and personal fulfillment.
Confidential. No pitch. You’ll leave with clarity on whether working together makes sense.
Training & Influences Behind My Work
My approach draws from three primary sources: real-world entrepreneurial experience building and leading companies, more than a decade coaching leaders and professionals, and extensive training in psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness-based approaches to behavior change.
While formal training has helped shape the frameworks I use, the greatest teacher has been years of working directly with clients navigating leadership pressure, ADHD, relationships, decision-making, and the internal challenges that often accompany high achievement.
The programs and trainings below have influenced the methods I bring into my coaching.
Business & Leadership Experience
• Entrepreneurial Master’s Program (EMP) — MIT Sloan School of Management
• President, Toronto Chapter — Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO)
• International Board Member — Entrepreneurs’ Organization
• Trained Forum Moderator — Entrepreneurs’ Organization
• Founder, CEO & President — Lapor Inc. & Illusions International Inc. (1983–2008)
Psychology, ADHD & Coaching Approaches
• Internal Family Systems (IFS) Coaching for Self-Leadership — Internal Family Systems Institute
• IFS-Informed Therapist Training — Internal Family Systems Institute
• Cognitive Therapy for Adults with ADHD — Mary Solanto, Ph.D.
• Adult ADHD as a Reward Deficiency Syndrome — J. Russell Ramsay, Ph.D.
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy — Hincks-Dellcrest Centre
• Narrative Therapy — Hincks-Dellcrest Centre
• Positive Psychology Coaching — Positive Acorn
Neuroscience, Mindfulness & Strengths
• Interpersonal Neurobiology — Daniel Siegel, M.D.
• Hardwiring Happiness (Applied Neuroplasticity) — Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
• Strengths-Based Coaching — VIA Institute on Character
• Creating a Strengths-Based Life — VIA Institute on Character