TESTIMONIALS

I'm a lot more confident and grounded. You know, you may have an intuitive feeling that you've got these skills because you've had some successes in the past, but when you work through the principles and values and the leadership maps, you come to know it. It's organized. It's put together. It just grounds you, I think, in a confidence and a commitment to and an assurity you wouldn't have had otherwise.

Jim Collings - CEO, Clean Build Construction Group

I appreciate both of you as coaches. Your perspectives have been great for me to see different ways of approaching and learning from the information we've received. It's so much more meaningful on such a deeper level. I have a hard expressing this, but I have an idea. This (approach) is so much broader and more inclusive to a whole-person approach than anything I've ever seen. And everything else and leaves everything else is way back in the dust somewhere. So, thank you for your efforts in creating this for us.

Cynthia Dayton - Health and Wellness Coach, City Council Member

So, over the weeks of this journey, I've identified opportunities where I have to grow. I've enjoyed the sessions. As I've grown, I'm not able to quantify or identify how this works. But I know it works. I find value in it. And I would do this journey again. I would do all the sessions again because it's been enjoyable.

Larry Sell - VP of Human Resources, Peak Support

My takeaway from this is that I have a higher level of confidence in who I am, and I believe it. The I AM statements - really understanding my leadership style and some of the attributes that I have—also recognizing the ability to bring out the derailers of those strengths, recognizing them and allowing myself to be more courageous, and pursuing the positive aspects of my leadership strengths. So, much more confident in who I am. I know who I am as a leader.

Jason Parr - CEO, Peisner Johnson

Rich Baron has been a friend, associate, bandmate and positive impact in my life for decades. We have worked together on organizational design, impacts from the pandemic and ongoing human resources challenges. Take the time to get to know Rich. Through a phone call or a live meeting, you be positively changed by the experience. A veteran manager and a student of workplace dynamics. Rich is a mentor, coach, example and leader.I give Rich my highest recommendation as a Consultant, Advisor, Leader and friend. A good example of his foresight and expertise can be found in his ongoing vlogs and posted online content. Loved his most recent post about ‘It’s a Long Way to the Top if You Wanna Rock n Roll’. Rich is comfortable on stage or supporting the C-Suite in the executive boardroom. All the best Rich! I wish you continued success and more importantly, continued happiness.

Joe Tate - Principal at Boost HR and Recruiting

If for no other reason than the chance it gave me to meet Rich Baron, the circumstances around my recent career change would have been totally worth it. As I've had the opportunity to get to know Rich through his volunteer efforts, and coaching professionals at all levels, I've seen numerous individuals achieve greater outcomes, myself included, than they were even imagining previously. He has a rare and impactful blend of empathy and approachability mixed with confidence, experience, and ability that he effectively employs to everyone's benefit. More specifically, I won't ever be the same since my first coaching session with him. His wisdom and counsel were a defining moment and set me on my current trajectory. It's benefited not only me but my family, my team, and others who I've since had the opportunity to pay his impact forward. Engaging with Rich in my leadership and personal development began a process that will continue until the day I die and beyond. I'm forever grateful. From his musical abilities to his faith and humble confidence, I know that Rich could do anything he sets his mind to. He'll find the resources and most importantly, the people, that he needs to make it happen.

James Reusch - Sr. Strategic Program Manager, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Rich treated the entire team with respect and he was there for every person as a coach, support, mentor, and a true leader. A master team builder who praises individual achievements in public and constantly stimulates a healthy competitive environment. Rich made me feel good about working there and proud of the tasks I accomplished for him and the team. I loved working there and I learned a lot from him. He helped me grow and feel comfortable in my role as QA Manager.

Ned Storm - Director of Quality  Assurance and Regulatory Affairs, LACO Technologies

I have had the pleasure of working with Rich as my executive coach for the past 6 months. Rich has a passion for coaching and his enthusiasm for leadership and personal improvement is contagious. He saw leadership potential in me that I did not see in myself. He helped me recognize that potential and taught me the importance of concentrating first on your inner core. He created a clear and concise roadmap for me to follow and helped me work through blind spots I did not realize I had. Rich is extremely patient and always took the time to dissect, analyze, and unpack issues I was dealing with at work. Rich truly believes that people are the key to any successful organization and has made it his life's work to help transform the lives of the people he works with. Rich has a passion for seeing others succeed and I know that without his help I would not have received a recent promotion at work. I wholeheartedly recommend working with Rich to anyone interested in taking the next step on their leadership journey.

Michael Lydiksen - Operations Manager, Verdesian Lifesciences

Rich is a mindful, resilient, and wonderful servant-leader! I had the pleasure of working with Rich in the same group. Rich was the consensus unofficial leader of the group. We all routinely looked to Rich for candid and sincere advice and encouragement. No one worked harder than Rich and no one served others in the group with more devotion than Rich. Rich is a gatherer of people and good ideas. He is confident and thoughtful when sharing his point of view yet humble and open when hearing others.

Nathan Sprague, Senior Underwriting Counsel/Utah State Counsel

Rich is a talented executive coach, a man of many talents and a genuinely nice guy!

His clients have benefitted greatly from his expertise and methodology in Leadership Coaching. If you or your company needs better leadership, Rich can team with you to create immense success. I highly recommend him.

Cal Carrera, MS, MCILC, ACHE, SHRM

As I embarked on my personal development journey, I quickly discovered that leadership is much more than simply guiding others and proclaiming, "I've done this before, follow me, I can lead us to success." It encompasses a vast array of skills and knowledge that I feel should be taught in school, given its immense significance. Not only does it involve understanding effective leadership strategies, but it also requires introspection and self-improvement as an individual, which I believe is distinct from leadership itself but crucial for personal growth. The ability to focus on both aspects simultaneously is truly remarkable to me.

Tim Baron - President and Founder, Elite Roadside Solutions, LLC

It's been fun to get an understanding of who you are as a leader, what your strengths are, what your weaknesses are, and how you work through that golden triangle. It really makes a lot more sense. 

And you are, then, taking that and putting it into action. And so the confidence that brings, and the sense of direction and that plan and how to carry that out. Obviously, it's not something you can accomplish in that 10-week period, but it is something that you can take with you and carry out through your entire life as a leader as you just adapt and adopt these skills in these different traits you have taught us. I really appreciate that.

Paul Johnson - COO, Peisner Johnson

The biggest takeaway for me has been that, like anything else, there are skills associated with achievement in anything, right? And that they take time to develop. They take intention and effort. I think for me, personally, a lot of what I think I have to decide is, now that I have greater familiarity with what the skills are and what the habits are that I want to develop as a leader, is what is the context in which I want to develop my leadership. Where do I want to lead, (and) why?

Bruce Ackerman - CMO, My Computer Career

I've seen a character change of growing confidence and some competence that had waned. I think I've come out as a different person. I think that this training has really shaped and given me some models to lead by, to govern, to drive, to influence. Not only, of course, myself, but also how I interact and treat and build others. This has been a replenishment, so to speak. So I like, yeah, you know, the Phoenix Rising. I think that's very appropriate. This has really been a significant enhancement and a betterment for me, and so, yeah, thumbs up, plus. 

Bryan Nielsen - HR Business Partner, Leadership Development Co

Rich was a great coach to me as I was navigating my way through finding my first full time job in supply chain after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in supply chain management. He walked me through the steps I needed to take to write an outstanding resume, nail an interview, and ultimately negotiate my salary. If you’re seeking direction in starting your career Rich is one awesome person to get connected with! 

Hannah Fallon-Suka - Procurement, Supply Chain Management, and Analytics

I am definitely more confident, more intentional, more methodical. I feel like I have some tools available. I couldn’t even tell you what the tools were (before). And now, I know what they are – where to look for them, where to find them, how to use them. I’m probably still tweaking them for the best way to use them. You know leadership is intentional. It’s a journey. It’s excellence. It’s a lifelong pursuit. So, lots of good stuff here.

Tyler Erickson - Healthcare Revenue Cycle Leader

First, with me, it was looking for clarity, not understanding completely what was going on, but then that understanding came, and then the reward. So the reward is that we learn things. I could say all kinds of things that I've learned about myself and about the journey and about leadership - then, doing these maps and taking these activities, doing the affirmations. Starting to look at the core principles, the core (purpose) statement, and the missions and the values, all of those. Then, they become challenges. But then they become insightful and, interesting and productive. Because we gain that curiosity. And then we move forward and learn and grow from that. And then the big thing is when anybody goes through this journey, process, change takes place. And that's happened with me, and I appreciate that a lot. And I'm excited to look forward to additional challenges, learnings, and change. 

Doug Jeppson - Director of HR (Ret.), Pacific Corp.

I didn't know what I was getting into completely. I was excited about taking the course and developing some of my skills. I was pretty excited about that. But I was confused. I was very confused after receiving the survey and the results. And when we went over them, I was still confused. And then, as we started driving into these, I saw direction. I saw opportunity. And through this, I've read several books, and I believe it just enhanced my overall thought process about leadership, and the tools that we have to move forward, and a lot of things. So, I took a lot out of it. I have a long way to go. It's about people and about becoming our best selves. So, I'm grateful for the journey.

Jeff Hatch - General Manager, VP and Director of Operations

I think this has made me realize that I have not been as good a steward of my leadership talents as I can be with daily incremental 1% Improvement. And being much more intent, having much more intent in recognizing what I'm doing and how I'm impacting people and all of those things. And it's not just because I want to be a leader or because I want to do something. There is a purpose in failing. If I'm not doing much more than I have and that I am, then I am not fulfilling my purpose as a leader.

Corey Bell - CEO, Senior Healthcare Consultant

So, I always call myself a student of leadership. And I always will be. And this has really been great. And as it's taken, you know, 30 years of leadership training, and really helped me understand how to navigate it better rather than, you know, just picking a tool and using the hammer to solve every problem, right? We can all find 40 minutes a day. We don't have to play on our phones for 40 minutes or 30 minutes, right? We can figure it out. And that has paid off in dividends. Just going back, somebody said about compounding interest, right? That's exactly what it has been. And I've seen that, a change in myself, and I've seen a change in the people that I lead and how I approach things and people and the way they react to me now, and it's blessings to start seeing that. 

Dustin Ray - Colonel (Ret.) U.S. Army, Strategy Management Consultant

So, I came in this with some specific questions from my leadership experiences in the past. But then, those questions became part of this much larger structure that really go beyond answering those questions and allowed me to connect it back to how things are going in my core. So that's great. This gave me a way to be poised for re-engaging professionally. This is a continuum of leadership development. It's not a stop-start, but with new tools and new perspectives, hopefully, implemented in more intentional ways.

Joshua Lloyd - Deputy Director, Humanitarian Leader

The big takeaway is a significant challenge: we will commit to excellence. Then, on the overall journey, to me, this has been a lot of really interesting material. I'm still digesting and working my way through to apply it, and looking forward to digesting it more and applying it more. 

Sara Rich - Program Director, Biofire Diagnostics

Overall. Life changing, really life-changing. And changing my whole approach to leadership and, how I view myself and view others, and how I can really bring world-class, excellent leadership to what I need to do.

Mark Dayton - CMO, Entrepreneur, Author, Executive Mentor

I was excited, started off really strong, I thought, and really, for the first time, really started looking at myself in ways that I hadn't done before, which has been insightful. And it's changed my perspective of myself, how we view others, and how I view the concept of leadership. It's, you know when you learn more, your borders enlarge, which then puts you up against even more that you don't know. It has opened up so much more that I realized that there's so much more to leading others.

Dean Tucker - Corporate Leadership and Development Trainer

The Fellowship of this group has been absolutely phenomenal. And I cherish the wall and our friendship and hope this will continue going forward. Rich and Maikel, you're a wonderful resource, truly good friends, and great mentors, and I appreciate it.

Tom Burns - BSN RN, Clinical Nurse Educator, Huntsman Cancer Clinic

When I started out, and everybody has this, we have our own individual insecurities. This course helped me to self-examine a lot and think about things that I thought critically about myself. I am much more secure now with myself than I was when we started. It was interesting the concept of permission; I am where I am, and I am progressing in the right direction. It's interesting because in order to help other people, you have to have some grounding. And you have to be not just comfortable with yourself, you have to be secure with yourself. I'm secure with who I am.

Calvin Lundgren - Technical Services Manager