Rob started his first business in high school selling Blow Pops out of his locker. For the last 30 years, he’s served as co-founder and co-CEO of imageOne, ranked as one of the Top 25 Small Businesses in America by Forbes.

Rob has been an avid meditator for over 15 years. He’s also the host of the Leading with Genuine Care podcast where he’s talked with mindful leaders including Jon Kabat-Zinn, Sharon Salzberg, Shantum Seth, Dr. Andrew Weil, and more. Rob is the organizer of the Leading with Genuine Care Leadership Retreat, author of donothing: the most rewarding leadership challenge you will ever take, and a senior contributor for Forbes.

We recently had the opportunity to interview Rob and learned more about how we might “slow down so we can speed up.” Rob also shares his experience of how we can “practice the pause”  in all manners and relationships, how to work with the moment between stimulus and response, and how it can affect us and those around us, in all areas of our lives.

*Originally published August 11, 2021. Updated December 28, 2022.