Please join us for this special book club focusing on the article “Supporting a Leader Through Change” by Rick Rochetti. Rick will lead us through this special event to give us the inside look on this important topic. Read more about Rick below.
Rick is an independent consultant whose work focuses on leadership development, executive coaching, strategy, culture and teams. He also works with the NC League of Municipalities and is adjunct faculty for the UNC School of Government’s Center for Leadership and Governance.
Rick’s academic background includes undergraduate degrees in Management and Marketing from Bluefield State College, dual Master’s degrees in Religious Education (Adult Education) from Fordham University and Organization Development (AU/NTL) from The American University. He graduated in August of 2016 from North Carolina State University with his Business Coaching Certificate and has his PCC level credential through International Coaching Federation.
Rick has held positions of responsibility in a variety of organizations, from the City of Raleigh to GlaxoWellcome (now GlaxoSmithKline) and from the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh to JM Family Enterprises (Toyota and Lexus Distributorship for the Southeast).
His client list includes Duke Corporate Education, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Kenan Institute for Ethics, GlaxoSmithKline, Gilead Sciences, Novozymes NA, Stiefel Pharmaceuticals, Pearl/AstraZeneca, Ryder Logistics and Transportation Solutions Worldwide, Red Hat, Caswell County, City of Fayetteville, City of Wilmington, Towns of Edenton, Rolesville and Wilkesboro, various units within the North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University, North Carolina Department of Revenue, North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles and Hendrick Motor Sports (NASCAR).
Rick has strategic alliances with Smith Management Training and Consulting, Transition States, Mitchen, the Talent Management Institute and First Step Management (UK) to deliver products and services to a wider audience. He has supported the Kenan-Flagler Business School by providing coaching to the MBA and graduate Accounting students.
Rick is on the board of the Learning Consortium and the Talent Management Institute. He volunteered for twenty years at the Shepherd’s Table Soup Kitchen. He is a coach for the Caldwell Fellows Program at NCSU. He is married and has one daughter. He was an NTL Institute member from 2011-2016.
Leadership Development Programs where Rick Rocchetti has taught and/or coached
American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Leadership Development Program-held at UNC-CH
Capital Leadership Institute, City of Raleigh
Food Science Leadership Institute (NCSU)
Duke Corporate Education: PriceWaterhouseCooper’s Turning Point Program
Maternal and Child Health Professional Leadership Development Program held at UNC-CH
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Clinical Scholars National Leadership Program
Capital Leadership Institute: Leadership Development Program held at the City of Raleigh
NCSU Executive Education: Joint Special Operations Committee Organizational Excellence Program
NCSU Jenkins MBA Classes: Change Management and Polarity Management
NCSU Jenkins MBA class: Presentation Skills
UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA programs: Executive Coach for all MBA programs; simulator facilitator
Red Hat University