Inspire Builders.
Strengthen Leaders.
Fuel the Win.
Real-world strategies, frameworks, and inspiration—crafted to equip your audience to endure, adapt, and win.
Book Rick the Strategy Speaker
Growth Leadership Built in the Trenches. Proven in the Field.
Rick Meekins delivers execution-driven keynotes designed to equip entrepreneurs with the inspiration, frameworks, and direction they need to relentlessly pursue the win. Every talk challenges, educates, and strengthens leaders to sharpen execution, refine operations, and build companies that endure.
Rick is battle-tested through decades of entrepreneurial leadership—not delivering theories from textbooks, but frameworks forged from real-world experience.
If your audience is serious about building stronger companies, sharper teams, and lasting legacies, Rick is ready to equip them for the next stage of their journey.
Speaking Topics
Why Your Company’s Growth Plans Fail—And How to Fix Them
- The three core missteps that quietly undermine scaling efforts.
- A 90-day reset plan leadership teams can put into motion immediately.
The Relentless Pursuit of Winning Mindset
How resilient individuals and teams craft vision, assemble the right resources, execute with discipline, and adapt through wins and losses.
A framework for embedding the Relentless Pursuit of Winning mindset—focused on enduring adversity, learning from every outcome, refining strategies, and pressing forward with relentless clarity.
The Gift of Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship as a creative outlet and method of self-expression that enables individuals to identify opportunities, create solutions, and bring their offerings to the marketplace.
Reigniting the original spirit that drives founders to build, adapt, and create impact—especially through seasons of challenge and uncertainty.
How resilience, creativity, and vision form the foundation of entrepreneurial success over the long journey.
Why Your SMCX Isn’t Working (Sales–Marketing–Customer Experience)
- Why companies leave revenue on the table when their SMCX system is siloed, underdeveloped, or ineffective—and how to rebuild for sustainable growth.
- Using the SMCX Framework to create a unified customer journey that delivers value from initial engagement through post-sale feedback—shortening sales cycles, increasing customer loyalty, and amplifying referrals.
All sessions are crafted with actionable frameworks, real-world stories, and strategic clarity your audience can immediately put to use.
You can go through stuff. Expect to. But never, ever get stuck. Just keep it moving. That’s the difference between winning and losing.
Who Rick Speaks To
Rick’s talks resonate with:
Founders and entrepreneurs of growth-stage and mature companies
Leadership teams preparing for operational shifts
Business owners serious about scaling with resilience and sustainability
Industry groups, leadership communities, and entrepreneurship organizations
Rick adapts each talk to fit the stage—whether for keynote addresses, retreats, leadership summits, or targeted accelerator cohorts.
Booking Rick
Your Audience is Ready. Are You?
Book Rick Meekins for your next event and bring battle-tested leadership, real-world frameworks, and renewed drive to your entrepreneurs and business leaders.