Robinson Roe - Team Topologies Advocate
Robinson Roe - Team Topologies Advocate
Rob combines the experience of a seasoned global executive in traditional companies and two startup unicorns with a personal mission of discovering and implementing what makes organisations effective. This mission led him to complete a Master's Thesis titled "Integral Business Architecture" and to co-author the book "Giving Hope," which focuses on the not-for-profit sector. As a Director of SignalRoad, his management experience and academic research have culminated in the BookCast, "Unlocking Change," which presents the Integral Map for Organisations.
Before founding SignalRoad, Rob applied his organisational effectiveness strategies as Managing Director of OneTrust for Asia Pacific and Japan, and as Managing Director of AirWatch for Australia & New Zealand. His career, shaped by roles at Telstra (Australia), Gartner (USA), IBM (Asia Pacific, USA, Australia), and Vickers Ruwolt (Australia), has significantly influenced his innovative ideas and approaches.
You can reach him in the following ways:
Team Topologies Advocacy
Rob found that Team Topologies was the missing piece he had been looking for to complete the Integral Map for Organisation. Throughout his career in executive roles, living and managing teams worldwide, Rob observed recurring issues in both traditional firms and scale-ups. In his master’s thesis, he utilised Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory to outline what is needed to build an effective organisation. This analysis identified the root cause of many problems as the organisational structure. By applying Team Topologies, Rob has successfully developed a real-life organisation with recursive structures instead of functional silos. You can view his work here.
Rob is a unique blend of experiences, combining his background as a seasoned global executive in traditional companies with his involvement in two startup unicorns. Before founding SignalRoad, he implemented his organisational effectiveness strategies as Managing Director of OneTrust for Asia Pacific and Japan, and as Managing Director of AirWatch for Australia & New Zealand. His career, shaped by roles at Telstra (Australia), Gartner (USA), IBM (Asia Pacific, USA, Australia), and Vickers Ruwolt (Australia), has been pivotal in forming his innovative ideas and approaches.
You can explore his work and see how he used Team Topologies in his BookCast:
Chapter 3, Section 1 @ 5:05: Leveraging a short clip on changing mental models (with permission from Billie Thompson, TTA)
Chapter 3, Section 1 @ 23:29: Using Team Topologies to restructure the Customer Team of 250 people that ran the outsourced Desktop and Network operations for National Australia Bank, NAB, one of the top 4 banks in Australia
Chapter 3, Section 2 @ 1:44: Demonstrating how local teams act by default when faced with getting the job done for their customers
Real Life Organization @ 14:23: Using Team Topologies to build out a real-life organization
