EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP STRATEGIST
Former NFL Executive • Executive Advisor • Impact Speaker
Leadership is action - NOT position.
For more than three decades, Rick Smith has led under pressure at the highest levels of professional sports and executive leadership. From Super Bowl sidelines to executive boardrooms, he has lived inside moments where clarity, character, and culture determine outcomes.
Rick works with leaders who are ready to slow down, tune in, and lead intentionally, creating balance within themselves and alignment within their organizations.
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
STRATEGIST
Former NFL Executive • Executive Advisor • Impact Speaker
Leadership is action - NOT position.
For more than three decades, Rick Smith hasled under pressure at the highest levels of professional sports and executive leadership. From Super Bowl sidelines to executive boardrooms, he has lived inside moments where clarity, character, and culture determine outcomes.
Rick works with leaders who are ready to slow down, tune in, and lead intentionally, creating balance within themselves and alignment within their organizations.
Leadership requires clarity, presence, and the ability to communicate and execute a vision, especially when pressure is high and complexity is real.
- Rick Smith
AS FEATURED IN:
Leadership requires clarity, presence, and the ability to communicate and execute a vision, especially when pressure is high and complexity is real.
- Rick Smith
AS SEEN IN:
THE JOURNEY
I’ve been right here - deeply engaged in the inquiry of what’s next for me and my family.
Leadership has shown up in every chapter of my life. As a captain, coach, general manager and executive vice president in the NFL, and becoming a father, I learned early that leadership isn’t about control or title. It’s about presence. Balance. Conscious participation.
My journey includes historic milestones - becoming the youngest General Manager, 2x Super Bowl Champion, in the National Football League - and deeply personal seasons that required patience, trust, and faith. When life called me to lead, parent, and provide on my own, clarity didn’t arrive quickly. It arrived through listening, leaning in, and allowing the next chapter to unfold in its time.
Through It All, I Learned A Simple Truth:
You already have everything you need loaded and coded within. Today, my work is centered on reminding people who they are and what they are capable of achieving - and helping them lead from that place.
EXPONENTIAL LEADERSHIP
Exponential Leadership is not something you memorize - it’s something you embody.
Leadership begins with Conscious Participation: the ability to be present, grounded, and intentional in how you live, think, and lead.
CORE PRINCIPLES:
Rick’s work is guided by three foundational principles:
Conscious Participation
Creating balance across mind, body, spirit, and emotions so you can lead with clarity instead of chaos.
Culture Transformation
Defining vision, values, and standards that move organizations from reaction to rhythm.
Leadership Actualization
Living the truth that leadership is action - not position - and that influence begins within.
Exponential Leadership is about rhythm, not reaction.
Alignment, not noise.
Purpose, not pressure.
THE JOURNEY
I’ve been right here — deeply engaged in the inquiry of what’s next for me and my family.
Leadership has shown up in every chapter of my life. As a captain, coach, executive, and father, I learned early that leadership isn’t about control or title. It’s about presence. Balance. Conscious participation.
My journey includes historic milestones — becoming the youngest General Manager in the National Football League — and deeply personal seasons that required patience, trust, and faith. When life called me to lead, parent, and provide on my own, clarity didn’t arrive quickly. It arrived through listening, leaning in, and allowing the next chapter to unfold in its time.
Through It All, I Learned A Simple Truth:
You already have everything you need loaded and coded within. Today, my work is centered on reminding people who they are and what they are capable of achieving — and helping them lead from that place.
EXPONENTIAL LEADERSHIP
Exponential Leadership is not something you memorize — it’s something you embody.
Leadership begins with Conscious Participation: the ability to be present, grounded, and intentional in how you live, think, and lead.
CORE PRINCIPLES:
Rick’s work is guided by three foundational principles:
Conscious Participation
Creating balance across mind, body, spirit, and emotions so you can lead with clarity instead of chaos.
Culture Transformation
Defining vision, values, and standards that move organizations from reaction to rhythm.
Leadership Actualization
Living the truth that leadership is action — not position — and that influence begins within.
Exponential Leadership is about rhythm, not reaction.
Alignment, not noise.
Purpose, not pressure.
EXECUTIVE ADVISORY
Leadership at the Highest Level Demands Clarity, Restraint, and Trust.
Rick works privately with executives, founders, and senior leaders navigating complexity, transition, and growth. This work is personal, strategic, and grounded in real-world leadership experience forged in environments where decisions matter and pressure is constant.
Advisory Engagements Create Space:
Space to think clearly.
Space to align values and actions.
Space to lead intentionally.
This is not coaching for the sake of improvement.
This is partnership for sustained leadership.
EXECUTIVE ADVISORY
Leadership at the Highest Level Demands Clarity, Restraint, and Trust.
Rick works privately with executives, founders, and senior leaders navigating complexity, transition, and growth. This work is personal, strategic, and grounded in real-world leadership experience forged in environments where decisions matter and pressure are constant.
Advisory Engagements Create Space:
Space to think clearly.
Space to align values and actions.
Space to lead intentionally.
This is not coaching for the sake of improvement.
This is partnership for sustained leadership.
IMPACT SPEAKING
As a former General Manager and Executive Vice President with the Houston Texans, Rick Smith approaches every audience with the same preparation, clarity, and intention required at the highest level of professional sports.
Rick is invited into rooms where leadership decisions carry real weight and spaces where presence, perspective, and trust matter more than entertaining performance.
Rick draws from a lifetime of high-stakes leadership, Here are some Rooms Rick Is Invited to Speak In:
Executive leadership summits
Boardrooms and C-suite strategy sessions
CEO and founder forums
Industry conferences and leadership events
Private leadership retreats
Organizational town halls during moments of change or transition
In these settings, Rick delivers perspective, alignment, and clarity; helping leaders see the moment they’re in and the responsibility they carry.
LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS
When organizations are ready to go deeper, Rick moves beyond the keynote and into intentional leadership work.
Leadership is learned through reflection, experience, and practice. Rick Leads Training & Workshops With:
Executive leadership summits
Boardrooms and C-suite strategy sessions
CEO and founder forums
Industry conferences and leadership events
Private leadership retreats
Organizational town halls during moments of change or transition
These workshops are reflective, interactive, and grounded in real leadership experience, designed to create rhythm, trust, and actionable clarity.
They are not generic training sessions.
They are leadership environments built for engagement, conversation, and intentional growth.
IMPACT SPEAKING
Much like a coach preparing for the Super Bowl, Rick Smith builds a strategic game plan for every audience he serves.
His talks, workshops, and keynote experiences are carefully tailored to each organization’s objectives, ensuring relevance, resonance, and real impact.
Rick draws from a lifetime of high-stakes leadership:
NFL locker rooms.
Executive boardrooms.
Personal moments that demand resilience and perspective.
Audiences leave grounded, energized, and equipped to lead with clarity and purpose
LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS
Leadership is learned through reflection, experience, and practice.
These insights offer perspective on balance, rhythm, culture, and conscious leadership, drawn from decades of leading under pressure.
Each insight is an invitation to slow down, reflect, and lead with intention.
BEGIN THE CONVERSATION
Whether you’re seeking strategic guidance, organizational transformation, or an impactful speaking experience, the conversation begins here.
Every meaningful engagement begins with clarity and alignment.
BEGIN THE CONVERSATION
Whether you’re seeking strategic guidance, organizational transformation, or an impactful speaking experience, the conversation begins here.
Every meaningful engagement begins with clarity and alignment.
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