Richard Bryan
- Succession Planning and Common Sense Leadership Speaker
In Person-Fee 🛈
Fee Range
$15,000 - $20,000
Virtual Fee:
$10,000 - $15,000
Travels From
Colorado
Richard Bryan Speaker Biography
At only 28 years of age, Richard J. Bryan took the reins of a 100 year old, $120 million, family owned, car and truck dealership in the UK after his father was forced to retire due to illness. That alone was a challenge. Worse, the business was losing $3.5 million a year and there was no leadership succession plan in place.
After a difficult start to his career and lots of mistakes, Richard hired a seasoned executive and business turnaround specialist named Frank. With Frank's help Richard was able to clearly define his role as a leader, forge a team of trusted A-Players and learn the vital art of leadership succession planning. Ultimately, the business was able to survive and then thrive in a highly competitive industry with outstanding growth and profitability. Richard was CEO of the dealership group for 10 years before selling the business via a successful trade sale and embarking upon a new career.
Today, Richard is an in demand keynote speaker and author who shares with business owners and leaders the leadership strategies that have proven to be the driving force behind his continued business success.
Richard is based in Evergreen, Colorado where he lives with his wife and two teenage children. He makes regular visits to his hometown of Bristol, England. A former rugby player, Richard likes to keep fit and enjoys skiing and golfing with family and friends.
Business Growth:
Learn to Lead: Guaranteed to succeed. Proven Strategies for Exponential Business Growth
Best Audience: This leadership program is ideal for business owners and senior executives who have hit a road block when it comes to sustainable growth in their business.
This engaging and interactive program empowers attendees to participate, take action and develop into leaders who create a culture of success in their organization while mentoring their team to take care of the day to day running of the business thus enabling them to spend more time on growing the business.
Learn how to put Richard’s tried and tested strategies into action so that you can start working “ON your business” not “IN your business” and implement a plan that guarantees success for years to come by attracting, retaining and nurturing A-Payers to become your next generation of leaders in the organization.
Succession Planning:
Extraordinary Leadership Succession Planning
Best Audience: This program is ideal for family business owners, CEOs and advisors who deal with family owned businesses.
In this interactive and entertaining program based on his book, “Handing Over the Reins: A Concise Guide to Succession Planning,” Richard shares how to create a seamless leadership transition from one generation to the next.
Richard uses his personal family business story as a case study and shares entertaining stories that provide humor, encourage audience participation and teach the proven strategies that need to be in place for succession planning to be successful.
Richard will show the audience not only what to do, but what NOT to do to guarantee business continuity for years to come.
Crisis Management:
Being Frank. How to be a leader people will Follow in Challenging Times
Best Audience: This program is ideal for business owners and leaders, as well as trusted advisors, dealing with a crisis or operating in particularly challenging market conditions. Great for those who want to protect key business relationships, and lock down loyalty with top performing A-Players and key customers.
Go beyond theory with Richard J. Bryan and re-live the business turn-around tactics he learned over coffee (lots of coffee) with his brilliant, common-sense, business mentor, Frank. Richard became the reluctant CEO of his family’s high-profile business at the age of 28, after his father became ill. He was facing $5 million of company debt, tough competition, unhappy manufacturer partners and, to top it off, the business was losing $3.5 million a year! He looked around and decided he needed help. Enter Frank. Learn the top 10 road-tested, turn-around tactics that saved the business.
With the help of the right mentor, Richard took his family business from near-bankruptcy to profitable growth and successful exit over the course of 10 years. He has gathered his key learnings (the good, the bad and the ugly), in his no-nonsense, leadership book, “Being Frank. Real Life Lessons to Grow Your Business and Yourself”. He will share select excerpts from his book with you, in this value-packed, reality-tested, freshly-brewed program.
