Bring the Dirt Road to Your Organization
Keynotes, coaching, and leadership development built on forty years of lived experience — not theory.
For Organizations
Keynotes
Richard brings Dirt Road Leadership's framework to the stage: story-first, practical, and built to move a room from reactive to intentional in one session.
Book a ConversationLeadership Accelerator
A structured program for developing leaders inside your organization using the Slow Down / Pay Attention / Find the Good / Become model.
Book a Conversation
Leadership Culture Initiatives
Organization-wide work to align stated values with lived ones — as in the manufacturing-plant story Richard tells in the book, where turnover fell from 46% to 16% once a company got honest about its actual values.
For Executives
Executive Coaching
One-on-one coaching for senior leaders, grounded in the same reflection-first method behind Dirt Road Leadership. The focus: how you show up as an A player.
Executive Cohort
A peer group for CEOs and senior executives who want the accountability of shared reflection, not just individual sessions.
Why Richard
Decades of lived leadership and coaching experience, not research-only theory
A certified Maxwell Leadership methodology behind every engagement
Story-driven delivery that audiences actually remember
A track record across banking, non-profit, and C-level leadership, so the material lands in any room
The full background is on Richard's About page.
Lessons on Slowing Down, Paying Attention, and Leading for the Long Haul.
About the Book