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Rick loves engaging with audiences that participate in his keynote presentations. No two keynotes are alike because Rick feeds off the energy and enthusiasm of the individuals in the room - they set a unique context each and every time. Rick is entertaining and humourous and passionate about connecting with each and every participant at an individual level. This connectedness ensures that the time spent with Rick - in conversation - is meaningful and relevant, and that the message is transferable.

Rick will develop and customize 45 - 90 minute keynote presentations within five general topic areas:

• Reinventing Strategy
• A New Model for Leadership
• The Other Intelligence: Spirit and Soul in the Workplace
• The Inspired Workplace
• Working Together - Building Community

Two aspects of facilitation inspire Rick to fulfill his purpose to assist individuals, teams and organizations enhance their corporate presence:

• process facilitation
  Rick partners with teams and organizations to facilitate myriad processes from effective meetings to strategic planning sessions. Rick brings a lightness to the process while ensuring that meetings, planning sessions and retreats are action-oriented toward an agreed upon result. Rick is accountable to each and every one of his clients to achieve their objectives on time and within budget.
• learning facilitation
  Rick knows that the best learning that happens within a formal learning environment happens when he can engage as a facilitator. Drawing on years of adult education expertise, Rick helps set a context for learners that is safe and non-threatening, fun and exhilarating, thought provoking and relevant. While Rick brings years of formal education and experience to his workshops, courses and programs, he honours the diversity and perspectives of all his co-learners.

"I have had the distinct pleasure of working with Rick on developing leadership skills, knowledge, and abilities in our large and diverse ministry over the past several months. I have consistently been impressed with his ability to overcome obstacles and issues as they arise; incorporate our unique learning needs with the course materials; and his superior communication skills. Our participants' individual evaluations consistently reflect their appreciation of his knowledge, enthusiasm, and overall excellent facilitation style."

Brenda Solberg, Learning and Development Lead, Citizens' Services

• leader
  In his career, Rick has led the development and has facilitated leader development courses and programs for individuals—leaders—at all levels of the organization.
  
  At the core of leadership is influence. At the core of influence is the leadership conversation. Rick engages leaders in the exploration of how they show up in this very conscious conversation.
  
  Essential to this exploration is self-awareness—the point of departure for anyone truly interested in developing themselves fully. Understanding oneself from many different powers—the power of language, the power of mood & emotion, the power of the body—enables the leader to immerse in how their conversation serves them. This exploration is complimented through the use of diagnostic tools, such as 360⁰ feedback and Insights Discovery^TM and Insights Navigator^TM.
• team
  Greater awareness and understanding of individual strengths and areas of development are at the core of team development. With this, teams can then begin to understand, acknowledge and appreciate the strengths and areas of development at their—the team—level. Once known, Rick engages the team in a conversation centred on enhancing strengths and creating solutions to address the challenges identified. Tools and diagnostics that assist in team development include team effectiveness diagnostics such as Insights Navigator^TM.

"Our newly formed leadership team has been enriched by our relationship with Rick over the past year. His energy and enthusiasm coupled with his tremendous skill have encouraged each of us to bring our full potential to the work of the team. The power of our new found synergy is reflected in the outcomes of our collective efforts!"

Angela Welton, Interim Executive Director
Residential and Assisted Living Services, Fraser Health Authority

• Rick's coaching premise begins with his desire to assist people "get out of their own way"—to partner, challenge and support individuals and teams to remove the barriers that may be in the way of them achieving their "greatness". From a place of integrity, authenticity, and curiosity, Rick inspires his clients to delve deep, to reflect, to observe, to wonder, to become more aware and to set action toward building a presence that is in service to who and what they desire to be in the organization and our world.
  
  Rick's use of the many tools and diagnostics from the Insights^TM learning solutions system has proven very successful in both individual and team coaching conversations. Rick also uses 360⁰ feedback instruments and draws on an ontological approach to coaching which encourages conscious exploration of how our language, moods & emotions, and body impacts and informs our conversations.

• Another one of Rick's passions is to assist people to create inspirational, personal and unique interior spaces, whether that be at home or at work.
  
  Rick pulls on his years of facilitation and coaching expertise to help individuals, couples and families bring dream spaces into their home environments—to create the atmosphere they wish for in their living spaces.
  
  Rick also sees and feels the need for individuals, teams and organizations to create more inspirational, stimulating and innovative work spaces.
  
  Click here to learn more about how Rick can assist you with your personal or work space design.