Richard J. Leider
THE INVENTURE GROUP
Founder and
Chairman of The Inventure Group, a coaching and consulting
firm in Minneapolis, MN, Richard has a worldwide practice working with leaders
from organizations such as Ameriprise, Caterpillar,
Ericsson, Habitat for Humanity, MetLife, Pfizer and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Richard is consistently rated as one of the
top executive educators and coaches in the world. He is ranked by Forbes as one
of the “Top 5” most respected executive coaches, by Linkage as one of the “Top
50” executive coaches, and by the Conference Board as a “legend in coaching.”
As a speaker
and seminar leader, he has taught over 100,000 executives from 50 corporations
worldwide. He is an adjunct faculty on executive education programs at Duke
Corporate Education and the University of Minnesota
Carlson School's Executive Development Center. He is a guest lecturer in the
Harvard Business School's General Management Program. Richard is the author of eight
books, including three best sellers, and his work has been translated into 21
languages. Repacking
Your Bags and The Power of Purpose are considered classics in the
personal development field. Claiming Your Place at the Fire and Something to Live For, have been touted as breakthrough books on “positive aging.” He
is a contributing author to many leading edge coaching books, including: Coaching for Leadership, The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching, Executive
Coaching for Results, The Leader of the Future, and The Organization of the Future.
Richard
holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling and is a Nationally Certified Master
Career Counselor. He is a Carlson Executive Education Fellow at the University
of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. He is a Senior Fellow at the
University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality and Healing where he is a
founder of The Purpose Project. As a commentator on work/life issues, Richard
appears in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and USA Today, and on
PBS public television, NPR public radio and other media sources. Along with his
professional pursuits, Richard has led Inventure
Expedition walking safaris in Tanzania, East Africa for 25
years.
A pioneer
and leader in the field of coaching, Richard is widely recognized for his
leading edge work on helping people discover “their calling” in work and life.
His work received recognition from the Bush Foundation, from which he was
awarded a Bush Fellowship to study “purposeful aging.” He was named a
“Distinguished Alumni” by Gustavus Adolphus College and to the “Hall of Fame” at Central High
School in St. Paul, MN. Believing passionately that each of us is born with a
purpose, he is dedicated to helping people to “discover the power of purpose.”
Richard Leider
3601 West
76th Street, Suite 25
Edina, MN
55435
952.249.5222