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Meet Rich

For over twenty years, Rich Bracken has been researching how businesses of all sizes and their teams rise and fall with various styles of leadership and employee engagement.

Combining his experience as an award-winning salesperson, marketer, and client service expert with his passion for speaking, consulting, and coaching, he brings a unique and refreshing blend of empathy and positivity that resonates with professionals from every level and background.

Rich’s path to today has been crafted from being raised in a family of entrepreneurs and innovators, to working alongside dynamic leaders in some of the most powerful industries including healthcare, law, and financial services. His ability to blend knowledge with compassion and results with care allows him to deliver a message that creates sustainable change to the bottom line as well as engagement and well-being of an organization.

Rich is an internationally acclaimed thought leader, television and media contributor, consultant, and keynote speaker on emotional intelligence, leadership, motivation, and business differentiation through client experience and branding.

His natural flare for entertainment as a media personality, national touring DJ, and former event planner allows him to bring a different level of entertainment to his content. Combined with his passion for servant leadership and competitive drive as a former college football player, you are hard pressed to find someone who prioritizes his clients’ happiness, growth, and success as much as he genuinely does.

He focuses his content, thought leadership, and insights through data and research to provide easily understandable and immediately applicable tactics to start the process of sustainable change for individuals and organizations.

Additionally, Rich has been honored to serve as a Professor of Leadership and has created countless educational and training videos for companies to use for internal leadership development curriculum. 

In addition to speaking and content creation, Rich is also the founder of RB Consulting, a performance improvement firm focused on coaching and consulting top business leaders, organizations, and celebrities on such initiatives as goal-achievement, personal branding, and presentation effectiveness as a public speaker.

Well, hello there.

We’re all a mix of random facts, which makes us unique. I happen to be:

  1. A dad and husband (I am my sons’ and wife’s biggest fan)

  2. An emotional intelligence expert (studying the in’s and out’s for over 10 years)

  3. A global columnist (numerous columns in publications like Thrive Global, Vice, and industry specific publications)

  4. A national touring DJ (performing with names like Avicii, Kelly Rowland, and Stonebridge)

  5. A keynote speaker (it’s my passion to motivate and entertain people)

  6. The next host of The Price is Right (my dream job since I was 5)

  7. A highly sensitive person (not just because I cried at The Notebook, but because I detect the energy of others within seconds; making me a better speaker and entertainer)

  8. A coffee addict (the stronger the better)

  9. A sales & marketing exec (known for bringing in the $)

  10. A career intrapreneur (working to find the efficiency & effectiveness)