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7 Reasons
Meeting Planners, Event Coordinators, Corporations and Educational Institutions book Enrique 'Rick' Ruiz
1) Unique Content that Resonates with the Audience to Effect Change
Content is unlike any standard Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion training which the audience is sure to have experienced. This training is far more than any check-the-box type of event that audiences have come to expect. It is an eye-opening experience packed full of facts that covers:
- Discrimination Realities
- Diversity Opportunities
- Inclusion Connections
Training, consultation or speaking engagements can be tailored to reap benefits in:
- Multicultural Sales and Marketing Objectives
- Financial/Business Performance Objectives
- Operational/Functional Objectives
- Product/Service Objectives
- Image Enhancement objectives
- Internal Objectives
- Other Business Objectives (e.g.- strategic alliances)
2) Passionate Delivery that Informs, Inspires, Educates and Entertains, all in one presentation.
Delivery conveys passion, "I-have-been-there perspectives" and confirmed results with the following competencies:
- Global Business Leader
- Technical Mastery of Diversity Issues
- Politically Savvy
- Champion for Diversity
- Diversity & Inclusion Consultant
- Excellent Communicator
- Collaborator
- Published Author
- Results-Oriented
3) Tailored presentation to match audience, and event.
I invest time upfront to understand the organization's needs and ensure that I am prepared for current, or the most relevant topics subject to discussion or debate. Preparation enhances follow-on Question & Answer sessions.
Speaking engagements can be from an hour to multi-day training events, including keynote speakers. Modules to choose from are:
- Power of Diversity (Management Module)
- Myths and Power of Diversity (General Audiences)
- Team Integration (General Audiences)
- Religious Similarities
- Leadership
- Tools and Tips for Effective Integration
- Global Diversity Management and Customs
Depending on time allotted, each of these modules can include:
- Role-playing
- Experiental Learning
- Group Exercises
If other speakers will be in attendance, I reach out to build momentum and collective synergy for the event.
4) Personal promotion of organization's desires
Where appropriate, I will promote the organization's activities and results in my own circles, websites, blog, shared calendars, message boards and social networks - with organizer's approval - which enhances your organization's exposure in the marketplace and in some cases can help increase attendance at the event.
5) Dependability and Preparedness
Materials are shipped in advance and setup/familiarization with audio visual equipment is handled in advance also. In the rare event that unexpected technical challenges arise such as Internet availability, computer speed, projector malfunctions, etc., I can continue delivery without interruption. If schedule changes occur, I can accommodate these in most cases, with advance notice.
6) Personal engagement with the audience before and after the event.
I always get to know as many people as possible at any event. Discussions on ALL topics are welcome on the many one-on-one engagements. Pictures and autographs are always extended, when requested.
7) Guarantee
Your audience must be completely satisfied, more informed and ready to implement at least three new strategies. If not, a 50% refund of monies paid will be refunded. Offer expires 30 days from speaking date.
Speaking Conferences are available in Spanish too!
Check availability for your specific needs at 540-446-3164
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The eyes believe themselves; the ears other people.
German Proverb
We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.
Dwight Morrow, American businessman, ambassador and senator
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words; people, product and profits. People come first.
Lee Iaccoca, American businessman
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic Missionary
Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.
Jean de la Fontaine, French poet
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
Mark Twain, American author and humorist
If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking.
General George Patton Jr, World War II US Army Commander
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Dudley Field Malone, American statesman and lawyer
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Russian writer and pacifist
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American author and humorist
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America - there are no "white" or "colored" signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
John F. Kennedy, 35th US President
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philospher
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher
When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen you often learn something.
Jaren Sparks
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold onto two opposed ideas at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian pacifist and leader
I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. My principal business is giving commercial value to brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.
Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessman
If we always view it from the same perspective, we will tend to notice the same things.
Frans Johansson, Author and businessman
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungarian physiologist
One can resist the invasion of armies; one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo, French playwright and activist
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist
The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.
Russian Proverb
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard, American writer and philosopher
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Ask about Speaking and Consulting engagement discounts in the Washington DC metropolitan area!
Rick also offers keynotes and facilitates
one-day events on such topics as Communicating Across Generations and Leadership through Effective Relationships.
Hablamos Espanol!
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"Food for Thought"
- Charts put people in a box
- Feelings are facts
- When in Rome, do as the Romans do
- Success and failures both have a great deal to teach
- Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
- People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
 Accommodating individuals of varying backgrounds, cultures, ethnicity and talents in varying fields of knowledge is just one aspect of diversity. Providing incentives, encouragement, a challenging environment and opportunity for every employee to empower the best capabilities from individuals of varied backgrounds and talents is my view of diversity.
Performance systems, development plans and education plans play a significant role in achieving the main goals and objectives of diversity as established by the company. Ascertaining the individual's aspirations - both professional and personal and aligning them with the corporate environment will greatly enhance the success of a diversity program.
Mohammed Naeem
BS Applied Mathematics, BS Mechanical Engineering, BS, Computer Science (MIT), MS Computer Information Systems
One of My Own Team Members
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What can a shared vision and diverse opinions yield when you allow the team to find patterns, insights and answers to deeper questions?
When one of the greatest documents in history was signed, the US Constitution, Benjamin Franklin stated:
"I don't entirely approve of this constitution at present. I am not sure I'll ever approve of it. But I am also not sure that I am right. I have lived a long time and the longer I live, the more I begin to doubt my own infallibility, the more I begin to respect the judgment of others.
We've collected together men, who not only have great wisdom but also prejudices, selfish views and local interests. From such an assembly we can't expect a perfect production.
It astonishes me that we have come as close to perfection as we did. It will astonish our enemies... who think of our separate states coming together only to cut each others throats. So... I consent to this constitution because... I expect no better and because... I'm not absolutely convinced... that it is not... the best."
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