Bridge the Gap Between
AI Hype and Governed Execution.
I help managing partners and senior leaders in professional services turn AI into real workflows, defensible policies, and profitable outcomes.
Traditional Legal Rigor.
Modern AI Execution.
I've spent two decades representing companies in high-stakes corporate transactions. I founded Griffitts LLP and served as Chief Legal Officer for a global AI infrastructure company. Today, I help managing partners move from experimenting with AI to safely implementing it within a governed, defensible operating model.
Let's Work Together
Specialized engagements for firm leaders navigating the AI transition.
Speaking & Keynotes
The unvarnished reality of AI for mid-market firms. Strategy and operating-model design for your next partner retreat or industry event.
Book Me to SpeakExecutive Cohorts
An 8-seat working intensive for managing partners to build their firm's AI Frame, Defensibility Test, and repriced comp model in real time.
View the ProgramPrivate In-House Training
Custom design and installation of the governed AI operating model. We build your firm's specific workflows, guardrails, and incentive structures alongside your executive team.
Inquire About Private TrainingWorking with Rob transformed AI from something I was just exploring into something I now use to build real systems for my management consulting and coaching practice. He has an exceptional ability to make complex concepts accessible without ever oversimplifying them, always grounding the work in practical applications. With Rob's guidance, I've built AI agents and workflows that genuinely extend my capabilities and, just as importantly, I've gained the confidence to continue building on my own.
Elena Addomine
Executive & Leadership Coach · President, INSOL Consulting, LLC
Judgment First:
The Executive Cohort.
A 6-week, 8-seat working intensive for managing partners. Stop talking about AI theory and start rebuilding your operating model.
Build the architecture, not just the prompts.
This isn't a theoretical webinar or a software tutorial. It's a working room where you'll build the actual operating model required to guide your partnership through the AI transition. You leave with the structural architecture for your redesign—your custom Frame, your Defensibility Test, and your compensation strategy—ready to present to your partnership.
Core Deliverables
The Permission Map: Build a custom 2×2 Frame to sort your firm's highest-volume work by pattern and risk.
The Defensibility Test: Establish the specific four-question governance standard your partners must meet before signing their name to AI-assisted work.
The Capability Shift: Move from fifteen associates running private prompts to decoupled, governed firm IP.
The Incentive Redesign: Restructure compensation and origination to reward adoption instead of punishing efficiency.
Next Cohort Forming
Limited to 8 Managing Partners
When leadership owns the firm's AI decisions, it's more than 3× as likely to see ROI.
— KPMG Global AI Pulse, 2026
(Begins Sept 15th)
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. You will be redirected to our secure application form.
The View from
the Front Line.
Talks that educate and inspire. Practical frameworks for firm leaders navigating the AI transition.
Most AI talks sell a future. I deal with the present: what's actually changing, what it means for the people in the room, and the decisions worth making now. No hype, no demos. Whether it's one firm's partners or a mixed hall of business leaders, everyone leaves clearer about what to do Monday morning.
Keynote · 45–60 min
The state of governed AI for professional firms: where the value moves, and what leaders have to own.
Workshop · Half-day
A working session to build your firm's AI Frame and Defensibility Test with the leadership team.
Partner Retreat
Pricing, leverage, and accountability in the AI transition, worked through with the full partnership.
Fireside / Panel
A candid conversation on what's actually working, and breaking, inside firms adopting AI.
Who I speak to: Executive teams and boards · Professional-services and advisory firms · Regulated and expertise-driven organizations · Conferences and industry associations.
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Signature Topics
Judgment First: Scaling Expertise in the AI-Native Firm.
The Architecture of Defensibility: Governing AI without Killing Innovation.
From Intuition to Institution: Institutionalizing Judgment at Scale.
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