Robert A. Hargrove

Robert Hargrove is a world renowned CEO Whisperer, leadership advisor, and bestselling author whose work has shaped the way leaders step into new roles, reinvent organizations, and pursue what he calls “Impossible Futures.”

As founder of Masterful Coaching and former Co Director of the Harvard Leadership Research Project, Hargrove has spent more than three decades coaching top leaders—from Fortune 500 CEOs to Silicon Valley founders to senior U.S. government officials—through mission critical leadership and organization transformations.

Hargrove’s clients have included the Under Secretary of Defense, the President of the New York Stock Exchange, a Fortune 500 CEO of the Year, and a European CEO Entrepreneur of the Year, as well as top teams at global companies such as Nike, Chevron, UBS, Zurich Insurance Group, Biogen, Toyota, General Motors, Samsung, and the United Nations.

Awarded the Medal for Distinguished Public Service by the U.S. Department of Defense, Hargrove is known for his distinctive ability to identify the breakthrough shifts that dramatically change a leader’s performance—and an organization’s trajectory. His hallmark concept of the “Impossible Future” has become central to his coaching philosophy: the belief that leaders must aim beyond conventional goals and pursue outcomes that initially appear out of reach.

Above all, Hargrove’s mission is simple: to help people at every level unlock their innate capacity for leadership and make a meaningful difference in their world.