Rick J. Hernandez
President / Founder
Syntesis Global, LLC
With a combined 20 years of delivering Executive Coaching, Leadership Development and Organizational Effectiveness services to C-suite, “High-Potentials” and executive teams, to Supervisors and front-line individual contributors - Rick has designed and launched key business and culture-specific initiatives that increase leadership influence, communication effectiveness, and performance "Excellence." His charter – inspire a heightened sense of personal awareness, strategic vision and "commitment to growth," as expressed through his signature, “Conscious Leadership”® principles
He is a Management Consultant, Author and international Motivational Speaker, whose business and career advisory experience is based on a “Whole-life” approach to produce results around Conscious Leadership, operational efficiencies and Team Optimization. Quality, Leadership Authenticity and
Change Management, are echoed in his recently published Amazon/Kindle book, “Creating a Culture of Excellence – The 3 Awareness’s.™ This work serves as a blueprint for growing businesses and markets in any economy. Woven within these pages, one captures the depth and philosophy of a personal brand built by assisting executive leaders, people and companies to navigate through change, career considerations and organizational challenges. Whether events resulting from restructuring and
Mergers & Acquisitions, to next-level growth and expansion - his focus on leadership credibility, communication effectiveness and ROI/ROT (return on investment/return on time), provide a strategic
roadmap that is underscored by his trademarked, “Winning Together,™ transformational Conscious Leadership model framed within the 3 pillars of Precision. Agility. Resilience.™
For over a decade, his “Winning Together”™ Leadership & Team Learning programs have helped companies improve efficiencies, costs/margins and reliability, by motivating individuals to raise the bar,
and “Buy-In,” to business and organizational “Excellence.” Rick believes that People, Purpose and Process drive business results, value creation and market share, as improved morale leads to positive business and career choices. These, he feels, are a natural consequence to employee commitment and pride of ownership.
Formerly, Rick served as the Managing Director, U.S. West Division, for DBM, a global human capital
consulting firm. Prior to joining DBM, in 1999, he was the founder and President of Syntesis International, a Leadership and Performance Consulting Group, offering services around leadership development, cultural integration, and experiential teambuilding. His focal point was to build effective
team learning systems by enhancing synergistic leadership skills, vision strategies, and personal transformation. Notably, in 1999, Rick was recruited to launch and facilitate a premier management development series for Disney’s Global Leadership and Organization Development Departments, coaching “High-Potentials,” and mid to senior level executives identified for advancement within The Walt Disney Companies.
As an international Executive Coach, Career Advisor and Motivational speaker, Rick has served such notable organizations and individuals from such premier Fortune 50, 100 & 500 organizations as Intel, The Walt Disney Company, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (NASA), The Gas Company of Hawaii, Nestle, Raytheon, ThermoFisher, DensoDrive, Sony, IBM, Bank of America, Amgen, Baxter, Dole Foods, Caltech, Motorola, DWP, Verizon Communications, Hunt-Wesson, Guitar Center, Wells Fargo, Cisco Systems, Harman International, Marriott & Hilton Hotels, Jafra Cosmetics, and Haas Automation. He is fluent in three languages; English, French, Spanish, and can navigate conversational Italian.He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications/Theatre from the University of Northridge, California. Additionally, in partnership with ASTD, he received a certification in Human Performance Technologyfrom the USC.
Guest Speaker Engagements: Rome, Italy; Toronto, Canada, and currently on projects in London and Hawaii. Affiliations and other speaking engagements: ASTD, SHRM, PIHRA, NHRA, and as a Guest Speaker at such universities as U.C.L.A., Pepperdine, Claremont, and CSCI.