Speaker Bio

Rick is the co-founder and managing partner of The RAISE Group®, a global full-service recovery alumni integration strategies & engagement group; co-founder and managing partner of Behavioralhealthjobs.com, the world’s leading source for jobs and career information dedicated specifically to Behavioral Health; co-founder and managing partner of REI Business Growth Solutions Consulting, an innovative and successful REI business growth consulting firm.

With over 30 years of global strategic and operations experience, Rick has successfully built results-producing global operation centers for the higher education, addiction treatment, and real estate investment industries. He successfully grew institutional footprints by 700%, referrals 689%, millions of dollars a month in net revenue, and a 920.61% increase in constituent engagement. Rick’s most recent credits include creating KPI and operational metrics to measure successes and provide early blind-spot warnings for the addiction treatment industry.

A decorated global higher education executive, he is credited with helping colleges and universities develop and implement effective policies and procedures to achieve maximum productivity and efficient operations, advancing and increasing global engagement and giving by 569%, creating an average increase of 9% in new donors annually, and an annual average of 160% increase in enrollment applications.

When not increasing institutional footprints, centers of excellence, and producing movies, Rick likes spending time with his family and friends, volunteering to help his community, and officiating football as a certified PIAA official.