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# Rob Price

**Profile.** CEO of [[entity-school-of-rock]], who joined the company in **2017**.

**Role in this source.** A model practitioner of structured empowerment and psychological safety. He implemented structured empowerment via **The Method App** and actively fostered [[concept-psychological-safety|psychological safety]] by adopting a **"maybe they're right"** philosophy, distributing his cell phone number, and personally listening to franchise operators who pushed back against mandates.

**Attributed contributions to this vault:** the School of Rock case ([[entity-school-of-rock]]) and the lived example of candor under [[concept-psychological-safety]]; his team's forward-risk work informs the [[framework-five-year-stress-test|Five-Year Stress Test]].