Speaking

A speaker who has studied 10,000 hours in human behavior.

Rick speaks to CEO peer groups, executive leadership teams, and business conferences on the people decisions that determine whether organizations scale or stall. Data backs every point.

Rick Ornelas keynote on stage
The Speaker

Rick Ornelas has spent over three decades speaking to and advising executive audiences across industries. His talks are direct, data-driven, and built around the specific challenges CEOs face when the strategy is solid but the people executing it are not producing results.

Audiences leave with a clear framework for making better people decisions and a concrete understanding of what behavioral misalignment is costing their organizations right now.

Rick is a Vistage Trusted Advisor and two-time bestselling author who has spoken nationally to executive audiences, CEO peer groups, and leadership organizations.

Signature Talk

Who You Hire Is Who You Become.

Every person you bring into your organization shapes its culture, its capacity, and its direction. This session shows CEOs how to use behavioral data to make people decisions with the same rigor they apply to financial decisions.

The result is a leadership team built for where the company is going, not just where it has been.

Ideal For:
CEO peer groups · Vistage chapters · executive leadership retreats · entrepreneur organizations

Additional Topics

Three more talks Rick delivers.

  1. The Tolerance Tax

    What misaligned people are really costing you.

  2. Analytics Over Instinct

    Building a data-driven people strategy.

  3. The Right Person, Wrong Seat Problem

    Why most underperformance is a role design problem, not a person problem.

To inquire about availability for your event or group, contact Rick.