Representative Talent Development Projects

• Working with senior executives of PepsiCo Europe (U.K. Netherlands, Italy) as part of six-month process for developing local and regional talent for global arena.
• Developing global talent for senior managers of Nike, Inc., through OSI’s Line-of-Sight simulation, delivered in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.
• Organizational development and executive coaching for CEO and senior team of a global agribusiness – TCACC, Costa Rica.
• Facilitation and executive coaching for regional leaders, Johnson & Johnson, Puerto Rico
• Guided senior executive team of IKEA North America toward a process for addressing multicultural dynamics and diversity – USA.
• Member of facilitator team for the Leadership & Management Development Program for Global Talent at the Walt Disney Company – North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America.  Executive coach for Insights program.
• Getty Leadership Institute:  Executive coaching for museum directors.  Malibu, CA.
• Global leader development: Executive coaching – Johnson & Johnson, New Jersey.

Rick has worked with private, public and not-for-profit clients, including:  Avery Dennison, Cable One, Inc., Central America Coffee Company, Cisco Systems, Eastman Kodak, Girl Scouts USA, IKEA, Johnson & Johnson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, New York Life/ Seguros Monterrey, Nike, PepsiCo, Pfizer, SAIC, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, TRW Space & Electronics, The Walt Disney Company, U.S. Senate Federal Credit Union.  Specific consulting expertise includes:

            * Custom Leadership Learning                      * Executive Team Building

            * Multi-Rater (360) Surveys                             * Diversity / Inclusion Initiatives

            * Executive Coaching                                       * Strategic Planning / Process Facilitation

            * Experiential Learning/ Simulations              * Trans-Cultural Leadership

In his various work with multi-cultural leaders, Rick has also co-developed a highly regarded program for Latino professionals that links dual-world dynamics with issues of power and change in organizational settings.  He also developed the protocol  for executive coaching. See www.llead.com.

Rick has presented to numerous audiences on the topics of leadership development, organizational dynamics and strategic diversity.  He has also been a juried speaker at national conferences of the Human Resource Planning Society, the Society for Human Resource Management, the Organizational Development Network, the American Sociological Association, and the National Council for La Raza.

Rick holds Masters and Doctorate degrees in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley (1985).  He also competed post-doctoral research on international labor markets at the Center for U.S. Mexican Studies, UCSD.  He was previously on faculty of the Center for Creative Leadership (1987-1995) where he facilitated core offerings and served as executive coach to hundreds of clients.  Rick makes his home in coastal San Diego with his wife Tracy.  They have three college-aged children.

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