Leadership Principles from an American General
Speaking
Rick Lynch’s motivational speaking foundation comes from his life’s story and leadership background. Audiences enjoy learning from his leadership principles through keynote addresses, lectures and seminars and walk away with supportive concepts based on lessons on how to lead better and build trust.
Rick enjoys spreading his leadership principles to corporate, military, college or religious audiences. Click below to watch clips of speeches that Rick has done and how you can get Rick speak to your organization.
Leadership Tours
Rick Lynch provides a transformative leadership development experience in an innovative alternative to the traditional executive offsite for your team. His common sense approach with exceptional leadership lessons and passion for leading people puts its audience in the mindset to lead better.
General Lynch’s leadership lessons come to life against the backdrop of famous battlefield sites where he will teach your team leadership lessons through some of history’s most dramatic successes and failures.
Workshops
Workshops are based on Rick Lynch’s Adaptive Leadership experience during his 35 years in the Army. The sessions are focused on some aspect of adaptive leadership, such as time management, work-life balance, talent management, communication, collaboration, attitude and engagement.
Each topic is covered for one hour and the workshops normally last four hours. Contact Us to find out more about the Workshops or click on the button below to learn more.
Books
Sharing stories from the front and insights born from overcoming adversity on both the battlefield and in the boardroom, Lynch reveals impactful leadership principles ranging from earning respect and working effectively with diverse teams to adapting to new technology and laying a foundation of trust built upon integrity.
“Adapt or Die, Leadership Principles of an American General” condenses 35 years in the Army and 4 years at West Point into 9 leadership principles. With a focus on Faith and Family you will learn how to lead under difficult, changing circumstances.
Adaptive Leadership
Rick Lynch’s Workshops, Leadership Tours and Speaker Keynote addresses are based on the concept of Adaptive Leadership, which is a leadership model founded on the idea that successful leaders must build and work with teams and enable them to adapt and find solutions, as opposed to tell them what to do.
The teamwork through Adaptive Leadership creates the conditions for the team to adapt to constantly changing challenges and find solutions for their own success.
Rick Lynch’s Adaptive Leadership teachings come from his own experience as a leader during his 34 years career at the US Army where he led thousands of soldiers.
About Rick Lynch
Rick Lynch was born in Hamilton, Ohio. He attended the United States Military Academy primarily because his parents couldn’t afford to send him to school anywhere else. He had no particular aspirations to be in the Army.
As a junior in high school, Rick asked his guidance counselor (Eilleen Lowell) where he could go to school if he had no money, and she recommended applying to the Service Academies (West Point and Annapolis). He asked how much they cost, and was told that he would be paid to attend. Made good sense to him.
He applied to both, and received his acceptance letter to West Point on a Monday, and his acceptance letter to Annapolis the very next day. He attended West Point only because he received that particular letter of acceptance earlier. The postman truly determined his fate.
Organizations that Rick Lynch has spoken to
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Rick Lynch has spoken at many organizations. Here is a list of some of them:
1st Medical Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas
Addison Texas Fire Department
AFJROTC Westlake
American Legion Division Champions
AUVSI Orlando
Bayer Pharmaceuticals
BNP Paribas
Bush Institute
Celgene
Christian Broadcast Network Interview
Christians in Public Service
Cincinnati West Point Founders Day
Cisco
Colleyville Assembly of God
Coppell Texas Fire Department
Cristo Rey High School
Crown Of Life Lutheran Church
CTTMA
Dallas Fort Worth Airport
Dallas Independent School District
Defense Logistics Agency
Ennis, Texas Rotary Club
Evangelical Lutheran Christians of America
Exxon Mobile
Faith Creek Church
Faith Creek Church
Fitton Center
Fort Worth ISD
Gary Sinise Foundation
Governing God’s Way
Hale Koa
Hamilton High School
HEB Corpus Christi
HEB San Antonio
Hodges Capital Management
Holmes Murphy Associates University
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Indiana University ROTC
Insight
International Builders Show
Life Church Men’s Ministry
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
LTEN
LULAC Scholarship Presentation
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
Memorial Baptist Church
Michigan Army National Guard
Mikart Pharmaceuticals
National Center For Policy Analysis
National Robotics Engineering Center
NYC National Center for Policy Analysis
Operation Finally Home Wounded Warrior Weekend
Ovation Users Group, Emerson
Philanthropy Round Table
Plains All American Pipeline
Plano, TX Rotary Club
Price of Liberty Memorial
Purdue – Ft. Wayne
Republican party of Boone County, Arkansas
Rotary Club
Shine
Shire Pharmaceuticals
Sigma Financial
Soapstone United Methodist Church
Society of American Military Engineers
St Martin’s Episcopal Church
Sunbelt Rentals
TARDEC
Tech Data
Texas Association of College and University Police Administrators
Texas Christian University
Texas Commander’s Council
Texas Military Preparedness Commission
Thayer Leader Development Group / Insight
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Trophy Club Country Club networking social
TX Houston
University of North Carolina
University of Texas – Arlington College of Business
UPitt State of the Science
USC School of Social Work
USMA Cadets
UTA ROTC Commissioning
UTD Center for Brain Health
Westin Riverwalk Hotel
Westlake Texas Chamber of Commerce
Willis Group
Wisconsin National Guard
XTO Energy – Fort Worth
Youth Leadership Conference – Texas A&M
Youth Leadership Conference – College Station
Youth Leadership Conference – Fort Worth