Career — twenty years inside leadership development
How the work was built.
Two decades inside leadership development; eight years inside technology. Eighteen-plus digital products shipped, the latest of which is Node — an AI-native simulation platform for management training. Below is the path that produced PolyCognitive Leadership and the simulation-based methodology that anchors the work today.
2024 — present
Node makenodes.com.
Founder & CEO
AI-native simulation platform for management training. Productizes the practice-based methodology Robert had been developing across the prior decade.
2020 — 2025
Teamlearn.
Partner · VP Leadership Development
Remote-team learning platform. Co-built the company through funding and scale during the pandemic and the downturn that followed.
2016 — 2021
Brainiup.
Founder · Leadership Development Programs
Game-based learning company. Delivered 120+ enterprise leadership programs — the first sustained working argument for practice-over-content.
2014 — 2017
Equatorial.
Senior Facilitator · Leadership & Culture
Leadership and culture programs for European enterprise clients.
2011 — 2015
Michelin.
Senior Facilitator · Innovation & Cultural Change Lead
Four years inside Michelin. First as senior facilitator for leadership across Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe; then as project lead for a cultural-change initiative across seventeen European countries. The operating-discipline schooling that anchors the rest of the work.
2007 — 2010
Bell Bucharest.
Program Manager
First role in leadership development. Program delivery for European enterprise clients.
- Education
- BA, University of Bucharest (2003–2007)
- Discipline
- Psychologist · Researcher · Developer
- Certifications
- Solution Focus Coach · Human Synergistics · Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI)
- Languages
- English · Romanian
- Based
- Bucharest — engagements global