Rich Rosier is senior vice president, principal consultant at Linkage, with responsibility for leading Linkage’s leadership development practice and Northeast region. During his 19 years with Linkage, Rich has worked closely with renowned thought leaders including Peter Drucker, Warren Bennis, Tom Peters, Marcus Buckingham and hundreds of other content experts. Rich is the moderator of Linkage’s Thought Leader Series. He also co-authored with Warren Bennis, a Sloan Management Review article entitled “Leading in Unnerving Times”. In addition, Rich edited four volumes of the highly acclaimed Competency Model Handbook.
In his current role, Rich works with many Global 2000, mid-size public and private companies as well as government and non-profit organizations to help them define and implement a winning strategy as well as maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of their leadership development, coaching, organization development and change, and growth and innovation investments. Recent client engagements include strategy and strategic planning facilitation with senior leadership teams; the creation and delivery of world-renowned leadership development programs in countries around the world; a successful multi-million dollar organizational transformation project; executive and emerging leader coaching initiatives; and global, virtual team performance improvement initiatives.
Prior to assuming his current position, Rich was VP of Educational Programs, where he held responsibility for the P&L of Linkage’s Educational Programs business unit. In this capacity, he led the program managers, marketing, sales and operations teams in the production of hundreds of U.S and international conferences and institutes. During his tenure, Linkage events were responsible for the development of over 100,000 managers and leaders from around the world.
Rich graduated with a B.A. from the University of Michigan, is a frequent speaker at international conferences and training programs and a guest lecturer at colleges and universities on the topics of strategy, leadership development and coaching, change and transition, execution, high performance teams and growth and innovation.