#924 A Step By Step Process to Accelerate Your Career Goals with Rob Kalwarowsky

The biggest lie we were ever sold: hard work alone gets you the promotion.

Today, we're talking to Rob Kalwarowsky, bestselling author and leadership coach. We discuss why writing down your goal increases the probability of achieving it to 43%, how the people above you can't promote you for a job you've never told them you want, and why working hard and letting the results speak for themselves is the biggest lie you've ever been taught.

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! 

To learn more about Rob's work, check out his website here.

About Rob Kalwarowsky

Rob doesn’t coach average people. He works exclusively with high-performing individuals ready to shatter limits, rewrite their inner narratives, and scale new peaks fast. With a foundation in elite performance and a global coaching footprint, Rob brings unmatched depth and velocity to personal transformation. Whether he’s coaching C-suite leaders, Olympic gold medalists, or rising entrepreneurs, Rob unlocks breakthrough results that stick. In his world, success isn’t surface-level–it’s internal, behavioral, and lasting. Rob’s background is as rigorous as his coaching style. He’s an MIT-trained engineer, a former NCAA Academic All-American, and an athlete who represented Canada on the national water polo team. But it’s his intuitive precision, grounded emotional intelligence, and no-BS approach that make his sessions catalytic. Many clients experience measurable breakthroughs in their very first session. He’s coached the CIO of IDEO through a high-stakes job transition resulting in speaking invites at top tier conferences like Fast Company’s Innovation Festival and Web Summit’s Collision. He’s helped a once-stagnant $3M business scale to $11M in six months. He’s guided top executives from founders to gold medal Olympians out of paralysis and into peak performance. His impact has been recognized on global stages, including a high impact TEDx talk in Kumamoto, Japan, addressing Japan’s devastating workplace suicide epidemic.