Author, speaker, trainer and coach Dr. Rick Kirschner offers a powerful approach to dealing with change that unlocks creativity, enhances team communication and increases commitment. He creates his programs using a palette of attitudes, behaviors and skills that anyone can learn and employ. In keynote speeches for association events and conferences, in seminars and training for Fortune 1000 companies, in teleseminars and in work with his coaching clients, he helps people find the personal motivation to do the important work today for creating a better tomorrow.

Dr. Kirschner is a best selling author of numerous books and multimedia programs, including the comprehensive audio program and book, ‘Insider’s Guide To The Art of Persuasion,’ coauthor of the international bestseller, ‘Dealing With People You Can’t Stand: How To Bring Out The Best In People At Their Worst,' 'Life By Design: Making Wise Choices In A Mixed Up World,' and 'Love Thy Customer (Kirschner & Brinkman, McGraw Hill.) He is a faculty member of the Institute for Management Studies, and an adjunct professor at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine.

Dr. Kirschner has delivered his expertise along with healthy doses of people-friendly humor and authentic insights in thousands of radio and television appearances, interviews, newspaper and magazine articles, from CNBC and CBC to FOX, the Wall Street Journal.

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