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

The Most Expensive Guess in Your Business.

Most companies run on two operating systems. The business runs on data. The people decisions run on gut. This session closes that gap in the room, using the attendees' own behavioral data as the case study.

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

Additional Topics

Three more talks Rick delivers.

  1. 80% of Your Problems Are One Problem

    Strip the labels off a sales slump, a stalled expansion, or an operations bottleneck. Most of the time it is the same problem underneath. Solve it with data instead of instinct.

  2. Who You Hire Is Who You Become

    Every person you bring in shapes the company's culture, capacity, and direction. How to make hiring decisions with the same rigor you apply to financial ones.

  3. The Tolerance Tax

    What misaligned people are really costing you.

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