Rob Cannon, PhD
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Average Robot
Rob Cannon, PhD, is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Average Robot, the change management firm for the AI transformation of the workplace. He co-wrote The Elephant in the Algorithm with Matt Perry and co-hosts its podcast.
Speaker at SF Tech Week and LA Tech Week 2026.
Background.
Rob is an organizational psychologist who has spent more than twenty years guiding people and teams through change, usually the kind that arrives faster than the organization is ready for. His work centers on how people adapt and hold their nerve when the ground under their jobs is shifting. He holds a PhD from the University of Sydney and a grounding in coaching psychology that puts building human capability at the center of his practice. He has experienced transition from the inside, including ten years at Sony, across New York, London, and Sydney, as the music industry was remade by new technology and the human cost went almost entirely unmanaged. He is co-founder of Average Robot, co-author of Aha! A User's Guide to Creativity, and co-author of The Elephant in the Algorithm with Matt Perry.
Credits.
- Education
- PhD, University of Sydney. Studied at the University of Cambridge
- Also co-wrote
- Aha! A User's Guide to Creativity
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