After Journey, greatly expanded his involvement in the music industry as a staff songwriter for the prestigious Almo Irving Publishing and as a musical score composer for feature film and television projects. That work behind the scenes stretched across decades and mediums, including contributions to the music heard on television series such as That '70s Show and SpongeBob SquarePants — a testament to the same melodic instincts that had made "Wheel in the Sky" and "Anytime" hits years earlier.

Although his career has been filled with success, Robert Fleischman has always felt more comfortable in the recording studio, flying under the radar while he quietly goes about his business as a songwriter and recording artist. That instinct has produced a steady string of solo records over the years — among them World in Your Eyes (2002), Dreaming in Tongues (2004), and Look at the Dream (2007) — each one building on the confessional, melody-first songwriting that has defined his career since his earliest days in Journey.
 

His most recent solo work, Emotional Atlas, released in 2024, marks his first vocal album in over a decade and is also his most personal. The record was born out of profound loss: Robert's wife, Michelle, passed away in 2020 after a long battle with cancer, and the ten songs on Emotional Atlas trace a path through grief toward renewal, built around ambient, textured, at times symphonic soundscapes that mark a departure from the more guitar-driven rock of his earlier catalog. Tracks like "Side by Side," "House on Fire," and the eight-minute "Comfortably in My Skin" reflect an artist working through loss in real time, translating that emotional weight into some of the most intimate music of his career. Fittingly, the album also folds in Robert's visual art practice — its packaging and promotional material draw on his own collages and abstract paintings, tying his two creative disciplines together into a single, cohesive body of work.

The album also brought Robert back into the orbit of old collaborators: a 2025 single, "Shine," reunited him with former Journey bandmate Neal Schon alongside Enuff Z'Nuff's Donnie Vie — a full-circle moment nearly five decades after Robert first helped shape Journey's sound.