Instructor: Rick Lochner

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Rick Lochner is an accomplished coach, facilitator, college professor, keynote and workshop speaker, author and foremost, a leader. His vision is to help business owners, corporate and non-profit teams and individual professionals make leadership a way of life. Rick grew up in the military. During the 20 years his father was in the army Rick and his brothers and sister moved 26 times. He learned to adapt quickly to his changing environments and from an early age became a very goal-driven individual. Rick has over 30 years of leadership experience in the military, fortune 100 companies, and through his own entrepreneurial and non-profit ventures. Rick is the author of The Missing Piece - Achieving Sustainable Success through Business Alignment. 

Courses by this instructor


Decision-Making and Problem Solving

Decision-Making and Problem Solving
Do you want to make decisions faster, more effectively and with fewer risks? The key to better decisions-making lies in how you approach and tackle problems. In this workshop, participants will learn how to recognize and address the difference between decision-making and problem-solving, with a special focus on leveraging their decision-making processes for successful problem navigation.
Wednesday, May 20, 2026, WDC*D124

Developing a Trusting Culture

Developing a Trusting Culture
Trust is such a crucial element to building lasting relationships yet is often talked around or not at all by leaders. The level of trust followers have in their leaders is built on a foundation of the leader's skills, both hard and soft skills to the point that followers can comfortably rely on their leaders to do what they say they will do. Participants will learn strategies to foster a culture of trust within their teams.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, WDC*D124

Emotional Intelligence

There was a time when leaders believed they could make unemotional decisions. Brain research over the last 20 years proves that every decision leaders make has an emotional element to it. How do leaders effectively identify and manage not only their own emotions, but the emotions of the members of their team? This interactive session will delve into the current best practices around emotional intelligence including an individual self-assessment of each participants current level of understanding of their own emotional best practices. Participants will then return to their workplaces with tools they can immediately implement to have positive impact on how they manage theirs and others emotions, especially in difficult situations.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, WDC*D124