Perform under pressure, without folding when it counts.
A sales keynote speaker for kickoffs and sales meetings who changes how your team shows up
Your kickoff sets the tone for the year. I give your team a Champion’s Identity™, so they believe in themselves through a light quarter and perform under pressure long after the event.
Hall of Fame wrestler / 30+ years in the ring
Hall of Fame
Professional wrestler
30+ years
Performing under pressure in the ring
TV · PPV
Television, streaming and pay-per-view
Podcast guest
The Presentation Whisperer
The Main Event Experience
I create a Main Event Experience that changes how people think, what they believe and who they become.
A Hall of Fame wrestler on your stage, with a message your team still uses at Monday’s pipeline review.
Why Richie
I was told I'd never make it, and I rose anyway.
30 years in the ring, thousands of matches and a place in multiple halls of fame. Richie has performed under pressure in front of live crowds, on TV and on pay-per-view. He knows what it takes to get back up when the whole arena is watching, and that's what he brings to your stage.
30+
Years performing under pressure in the ring
Hall of FameProfessional wrestler in multiple halls of fame
TV & PPVTelevision, streaming and pay-per-view
Keynotes
Three keynotes, one Champion's Identity™
Every keynote is built on the four parts of Champion’s Identity™: belief, perspective, choice and response. See Champion’s Identity™
Topics Richie speaks on: Performing under pressure · Getting back up after a setback · Sales team mindset · Leadership identity · Perspective and burnout · Belief and confidence · Presence and holding a room
Every keynote is built on the four parts of Champion’s Identity™.
Belief
Perspective
Choice
Response
Topics Richie speaks on
Performing under pressure
Getting back up after a setback
Sales team mindset
Leadership identity
Perspective and burnout
Belief and confidence
Presence and holding a room
01
Signature talk
Choose to Be a Champion
How champions get up when the pressure puts them on their back.
Your people perform under pressure instead of folding when the number is on the line.
Richie was told he'd never make it, and he spent 30 years proving otherwise in the ring. In this keynote he shows your team what champions do in the moment they get knocked down: reset, choose who they're going to be, and take the next step forward. It lands like a main event, and your team keeps performing under pressure long after it ends.
Ideal for
Sales kickoffs, sales meetings and team events.
Your team walks away with
What to do the moment they get knocked down: reset, choose, respond
A clear identity that holds when the pressure is on
A team that bounces back faster from every setback
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Leadership talk
Leadership Is an Identity
Your team won't rise until you rise first.
Leaders learn to reach every person they lead, including the ones wired nothing like them.
Leadership isn't a title. It's the identity you build every time you choose accountability over excuses. Drawing on years of coaching wrestlers and running his own wrestling school, Richie shows leaders how believability is earned, and how to become someone your team believes in when the pressure is on.
Ideal for
Leaders, managers and leadership offsites.
Your team walks away with
How to become a leader your team believes in when the pressure is on
A team that chooses accountability over excuses
How to reach every person you lead, including the ones wired nothing like you
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Perspective talk
Keep Life in Perspective
What terminally ill children taught a Hall of Fame wrestler about what matters.
People stop carrying it alone and see what they still have.
Everywhere Richie wrestled, he took the championship belts to children's hospitals. Those visits changed how he saw everything. In this keynote he shares what those children taught him and the simple shift from "I have to" to "I get to" that helps people see the moment for what it is, and what is still in their hands.
Ideal for
Association conferences, all-hands meetings, and wellbeing and burnout programs.
Your team walks away with
The shift from "I have to" to "I get to"
A way to see what they still have to work with when things go wrong
Why life is about moments, not possessions
Book this keynoteNot sure which keynote fits your event? Richie will tell you.
Ask Richie which fits
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Your strength isn't in your muscles. It is in the moments where you refused to quit.
Richie Rotten
Included when you book
Before, during and after your event
What every booking includes, so the change lasts after the room clears.
Before the event
At the event
After the event
Earn It
Different from most motivational sales speakers: a Hall of Fame career under pressure
I was told I’d never make it, and I rose anyway.
30 years in the ring, thousands of matches and a place in multiple halls of fame. Richie has performed under pressure in front of live crowds, on TV and on pay-per-view.
Speaker kit
Everything you need to promote the main event
Share the one-sheet with your planning team to choose the keynote. The media kit has Richie's bios, an emcee introduction, ready-to-post promo copy and stage notes.
Speaker one-sheet
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Book Richie for your event
Tell us about your event and Richie's team will confirm his availability. The more you share, the better Richie can shape the keynote for your room.
Give your team a main event.
One keynote your people talk about long after the lights go down, and a Champion's Identity™ they take back to work on Monday.