Speaker Spotlight
Three Recent Conferences Rated His Session Valuable at 99%, 100% and 100%. He Was Also Team Physician for the Miami Heat.
Dr. Rick Goodman, CSP — Top 30 Global Guru for Leadership Six Years Running · 2,000+ Programs in 50 States and 32 Countries
Speaker evaluation data is the least glamorous and most useful thing a planner can look at. Dr. Rick Goodman publishes his.
Concord Hospitality: 99 percent rated the session valuable, 94 percent wanted to hear him again, across 248 attendees. CICPAC: 100 percent valuable, 97 percent again. Alpine Power Systems: 100 and 100.
Behind the numbers is a genuinely unusual background. He spent 30 years in healthcare and sports medicine, serving as team physician for the St. Louis Rams, the St. Louis Ambush and the Miami Heat, before building a leadership practice on top of it.
Why He Is the Safest Booking on a Healthcare Agenda
Healthcare audiences are the hardest room in the speaking business. Clinical staff can tell within two minutes whether the person on stage has ever worked inside a health system, and once they decide the answer is no, the session is over regardless of what happens next.
Dr. Rick spent three decades as a chiropractor and sports medicine physician. His healthcare program addresses burnout, staffing pressure, rising patient expectations and constant regulatory change from the position of someone who lived inside those constraints rather than read about them.
That matters more this year than usual. Our analysis of first-year nurse turnover found that the decisive retention levers are cultural rather than financial, and that the people who control them are unit managers with no spare capacity. A speaker addressing that room needs credibility with it first.
Six Programs, and the Two Getting Requested Most
The Solutions Oriented Leader is his flagship and the basis of his bestselling book. The argument is that organizations rarely fail on talent. They fail because leaders get stuck in problem-focused thinking and blame-based cultures that slow every decision down.
Leading Humans in the Age of AI is currently one of his most requested, and it is built around five conversations that reduce resistance during an AI transition. It pairs well with a technical AI keynote earlier in the same agenda.
The rest of the catalogue covers belonging and its measurable return, adaptability, championship habits drawn from his professional sports years, and the healthcare-specific program.
The recurring theme in his reviews is durability rather than energy. Clients describe people still using his frameworks months later, which is the only real test of whether a leadership keynote was worth the line item.
Book Dr. Rick Goodman
Available for keynotes and workshops on leadership, belonging, adaptability, AI-era leadership and healthcare culture.