Bringing the operator's perspective to your stage.

Decisive people moves.

The single most consequential discipline in scaling a company. The best leadership teams make the hardest people calls earlier — and the data on what that costs them in delay is unforgiving. This talk names what the strongest teams do that the stuck ones don't, gives the audience a way to recognize when they're avoiding a decision they already know the answer to, and walks through the muscle that gets built when those calls start happening on time.

The Epic Event: building toward an exit.

From operator to founder-investor. This talk is about the decisions that compound on the way to an exit — the ones that look strategic but aren't, the boring disciplines that turn out to be the differentiators, and what "exit-ready" actually means three, five, or ten years before the conversation with a buyer starts. Drawn from a real exit and the years of operating that produced it.

Related: Rich also runs an Epic Event coaching pathway for founders who want this work done with them over time, not just to them in a keynote. See /work-with-me/founders or ask about it in the inquiry form.

Right people, right seats.

The framework most leadership teams know about and few install correctly. This talk separates the people work that actually changes companies from the people work that just looks like it does — and the audience leaves with both the diagnostic and a concrete starting move.

Overcoming adversity: the power of surrender.

Rich opens with a finger trap toy: the harder you pull, the tighter it gets. From there, he draws on his divorce and being pushed out of the company he built — and Michael Singer's parallel of surviving an FBI raid on Medical Manager — to name surrender not as weakness but as the practical alternative to suffering when our problem-solver instincts make adversity worse. Audiences leave with a different relationship to the next storm, and the finger trap as a permanent mental anchor.

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