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 findings from external consulting and internal analysis with notable companies and corporations, he is an energetic and vocal advocate for an impactful style of business navigation that leverages the power of emotional intelligence, empathy, and mental awareness.
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.
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.
Currently, he 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.
He focuses his content, thought leadership, and insights through data and research to provide easily understandable change concepts 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.
Speaking Topics -
BECOME UNSTOPPABLE
Let’s face it, it’s hard to keep up with the daily needs of business and leadership. With all of the demands on your time and mind, there is an incredible pressure on your emotions and focus as you try to navigate the roller coaster of any given day.
That’s where emotional intelligence comes in to make you become unstoppable in your pursuit of personal and professional success.
OVER 58% OF YOUR PERFORMANCE AS A BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO YOUR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
OVER 90% OF TOP PERFORMERS HAVE A HIGH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
When business leaders leverage the power of emotional intelligence, it provides them with the ability to engage teams, employees, and clients in a more empathetic, amicable, and positive manner, which improves relationships and culture.
This presentation will outline the mindset shifts that industry juggernauts have used to not only separate themselves from their competition, but create a new realm of positive, successful culture. These mindset shifts, combined with minor tweaks to your daily routine, will bring about the success you’ve been hoping for with less stress.
Key Takeaways
- Discover how emotional intelligence creates more confidence in leadership
- Learn competitive differentiation lessons from industry juggernauts
- Decrease the amount of stress and anxiety in your daily life
- Level up your company culture, client service, creating deeper relationships
- Activate your emotional intelligence in difficult situations to stay on top
BOOSTING CULTURE & PERFORMANCE THROUGH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Whether or not you realize it, your emotional intelligence (EQ) plays a critical role in your everyday life. From the moment you wake up until the moment you close your eyes at night, your EQ helps you make decisions that can make or break your day.
WHILE NEARLY 85% OF PEOPLE THINK THEY HAVE A STRONG EQ, ONLY AROUND 15% ACTUALLY DO.
In this energetic and entertaining presentation, Rich will dive into the core elements of emotional intelligence and how you can leverage them for personal and professional happiness. Through this discovery, he will arm you with the awareness of your EQ to help you succeed and grow every single day.
Most importantly for organizations and companies, emotional intelligence is a critical factor in long-term success.
When you consider that more than 70% of an employee’s view of the company culture comes directly from the leaders' emotional intelligence, but that only 20% of leaders AND companies identify as emotionally intelligent, there is obviously a lot of work to do.
Key Takeaways
- Learn the fundamental elements of emotional intelligence (EQ).
- Discover how to identify your EQ strengths & weaknesses.
- Identify strategies for managing your triggers.
- Learn the professional & personal benefits of EQ.
- Understand the impactful (and fun) changes you can make to improve your EQ.
SOUNDTRACK FOR SUCCESS
Every great movie has a soundtrack, so why shouldn’t you be the DJ and composer of your personal story and how it unfolds?
Part keynote, part dance party/sing-along, this presentation will entertain and empower your audience to understand their own emotional intelligence and how it impacts them every single day.
Merging his experience in studying emotional intelligence with his two decades of being a national touring DJ, Rich brings an experience like no other to your event.
Combining live DJing and powerful takeaways and life changing habits, your audience will be dancing and singing while raising their own emotional intelligence and setting the tone for their future success.
Key Takeaways
- Establish the key foundational elements of emotional intelligence and how they contribute to your success personally and professionally.
- Understand how to retrain your emotional intelligence triggers and work your emotions like a good DJ works a crowd.
- With nearly 72% of people unable to accurately identify their emotions when they happen, you will discover how to turn vulnerability into strength.
- Learn to build positive habits to enhance your emotional intelligence, confidence, and self-value for a successful future.
THE 2 | 4 THEORY OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Change is hard no matter what is being changed. Be it personal, professional, or company-wide, the concept of change puts everyone in an uncomfortable position to adjust their behavior on a day-to-day basis. With topics such as digital transformation being discussed across industries, these changes are coming and most will be necessary to stay in business. However, when change is communicated effectively, it has a profound impact on productivity and happiness.
NEARLY 80% OF BUSINESSES NEED TO CHANGE EVERY 2-5 YEARS AND 66% OF CHANGE INITIATIVES FAIL.
The 2 | 4 Theory of Change Management explores the critical elements of change that allow companies and individuals to adapt and embrace change as a positive thing. By leveraging research on communication, leadership, and organizational processes, Rich blends the information with relevant stories to convey the critical nature of change.
Key Takeaways
- Re-establish the psychological impact and reaction of the change.
- Understand how to convert the perception around change and strategy.
- Uncover how to get a vast majority (likely not all) of your team onboard with the change at hand.
- Explore how this new positive mindset will improve productivity, engagement, and happiness for the long-term and set up for success in the next change.
AI & ME - THE IRREPLACEABLE VALUE OF THE HUMAN MACHINE
In an era dominated by Artificial Intelligence (AI), the intrinsic qualities of humanity remain irreplaceable. This keynote explores the factors that make human abilities resilient against the relentless march of technology, shedding light on the unique qualities that set us apart.
Through a dynamic exploration of creativity, emotional intelligence, adaptability, and ethical reasoning, this session will empower attendees to harness their distinct strengths in the face of technological advancement.
This keynote promises an engaging exploration of what it means to be human in the age of AI. Attendees will leave inspired, equipped with actionable insights, and ready to amplify their professional impact by embracing the unique qualities that set humans apart from machines.
Key Takeaways
- Learn how to foster a creative mindset in the workplace for unparalleled results.
- Implement strategies to leverage critical skills for confidence and effective leadership
- Embrace change as an opportunity for growth and innovation
- Empower yourself and your team to make ethically sound decisions in diverse situations
THE CONFIDENT CONNECTION
We all have important things to say in our professional world, but we often sabotage our message before it resonates. In fact, studies show that companies lose up to $375 million per year due to fear of speaking, lack of confidence, or ineffective delivery; that doesn't include potential missed sales opportunities.
That's why in today's dynamic and competitive business landscape, the concept of executive presence has emerged as a defining trait for successful leadership.
Executive presence encompasses a blend of communication, demeanor, and gravitas that allows leaders to command attention, inspire confidence, and drive results. This critical skill accounts for 26% of an individual’s ability to elevate their career and impact within an organization.
This presentation and workshop will dissect the multifaceted nature of executive presence and unveil the critical factors that contribute to its effectiveness and how every person can improve their presence and their path to success.
Key Takeaways
- Increase your influence and impact with executives, clients, and prospects
- Preparing your content and your mindset to walk into any room with confidence
- Fine tuning your physical presence, body language, and delivery to talk with anyone
- Leveraging improvisation to manage any difficult or challenging conversations
