Best –Selling Author, Turnaround Consultant Specializing in Rapid Revenue Growth

Rick has lived “in the trenches” solving real world business issues for over 25 years as a consultant and business owner. As a speaker, he captivates audiences with real life stories and future focused thinking. He is a Business Turnaround Specialist. He is known as the Revenue Accelerator for the work he does with entrepreneurs, small businesses, and enterprise organizations to smooth the on-ramp making them easier to do business with. He believes that you can generate any level of revenue you choose, whenever you choose to generate it.

He is the author of the Wall Street Journal and Business Week best-seller, Overpromise and Overdeliver: How to Design and Deliver Extraordinary Customer Experiences. His other books include Non-Manipulative Selling, Collaborative Selling, Alignment: The Shortcut to Marketplace Dominance, We Before Me: How to End Workplace Selfishness and Accomplish More Than You Ever Thought Possible, Leaders Are Readers, Learners Are Earners and The Entrepreneurship Imperative.

Rick is also the Head of Faculty for the Center for Heart Led Leadership in Denver, Colorado where he works with SEAL Team leaders, world class mountain climbers, Fortune 500 CEO’s, journalists and astronauts to teach We Before Me leadership to the next generation of leaders. Teaching We Before Me Leadership to the next generation of leadership is one of Rick’s passion projects.

He has helped dozens of companies, radically shift their focus, invigorate their cultures, re-design their systems, accelerate revenue growth and serve customers at significantly higher levels. He speaks worldwide on Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Branding, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Experience. His fresh thinking approach has influenced Abbott Labs, Ameriprise, Auto Crib, AutoZone, Bayer, Caterpillar, GMAC, IBM, Invisible Fence, Husqvarna, IBM, Intel, Merrill Lynch and Verizon – to name a few.

Currently, Rick is launching a start-up for entrepreneurs and service providers who are looking for work that pays through alternative compensation, such as equity,  barter, delayed compensation, or other creative means that are essentially cashless. His goal is to reduce the amount of cash a business owner requires to get off the ground, because he believes it is imperative that our communities and our nation returns to an ownership economy.

As CEO of Connective Partners, LLC and a founding member of The AceleraConnective℠, LLC, he is helping to reinvent advertising and marketing for the future while unleashing the value of Owner-led firms. Rick lives in San Diego, CA. His passion is helping entrepreneurs to get their businesses up and running. His hobbies include, sailing, golf, tennis, pickleball, skiing, bike riding, cooking and movies.