Richard Leider
Richard Leider

Richard Leider

Top Executive Coach, Personal Growth Expert and Author of The Power of Purpose

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Speaking Topics

  • Leadership
  • Executive Coaching
  • Career Development
  • Personal Growth
  • Aging
  • Work/Life Balance
  • The Power of Purpose

Travels From

  • MN

Speaker's Fee Range

    $10,001 - $20,000

Richard Leider

Richard Leider's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Richard Leider is consistently rated as one of the top executive educators and coaches in the world. He is ranked by Forbes as one of the "Top 5" most respected executive coaches, by Linkage as one of the "Top 50" executive coaches, and by the Conference Board as a "legend in coaching." Richard Leider has a worldwide practice working with leaders from organizations such as Ameriprise, Caterpillar, Ericsson, Habitat for Humanity, MetLife, Pfizer and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

As a speaker and seminar leader, Richard Leider has taught over 100,000 executives from 50 corporations worldwide. He is an adjunct faculty on executive education programs at Duke Corporate Education and the University of Minnesota Carlson School's Executive Development Center. Richard Leider is also a guest lecturer in the Harvard Business School's General Management Program.

Richard Leider is the author of eight books, including three best sellers, and his work has been translated into 21 languages. Repacking Your Bags and The Power of Purpose are considered classics in the personal development field. Claiming Your Place at the Fire and Something to Live For, have been touted as breakthrough books on "positive aging." He is a contributing author to many leading edge coaching books, including: Coaching for Leadership, The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching, Executive Coaching for Results, The Leader of the Future, and The Organization of the Future.

Richard Leider holds a Master's Degree in Counseling and is a Nationally Certified Master Career Counselor. He is a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Center for Spirituality and Healing where he is a founder of The Purpose Project. As a commentator on work/life issues, Richard Leider appears in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and USA Today, and on PBS television, NPR radio and other media sources.

More About Richard Leider . . .
A pioneer and leader in the field of coaching, Richard Leider is widely recognized for his leading edge work on helping people discover "their calling" in work and life. His work received recognition from the Bush Foundation, from which he was awarded a Bush Fellowship to study "purposeful aging." Richard Leider was named a "Distinguished Alumni" by Gustavus Adolphus College and to the "Hall of Fame" at Central High School in St. Paul, MN.

Believing passionately that each of us is born with a purpose, Richard Leider is dedicated to helping people to "discover the power of purpose." Along with his professional pursuits, Richard Leider has also led walking expedition safaris in Tanzania, East Africa for over 25 years.

Suggested Keynote Programs
  • Working On Purpose
  • Something to Live For
  • Lighten Your Load
  • Whistle While You Work
  • The Power of Purpose
  • Repacking Your Bags