Rich Rischling Email & Phone Number

Coral Springs, Florida, United States

With over 25 years of experience helping teams and leaders grow and perform, Rich is particularly adept at designing and curating experiences that engage learners’ hearts and minds and inspire them to take meaningful action in ways that matter most to them and their organizations. He weaves his skills and experiences in communication, learning, talent management, change management and coaching into a powerful array of solutions for his clients, always with a focus on helping them achieve their organizational objectives and people goals.

Coral Springs, Florida, United States

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Led culture transformation, integration, and learning strategies for GE’s $15B renewable energy business, with 40,000+ employees in over 80 countries. Partnered with business leaders and their staffs to shape a more collaborative, nimble, and customer-focused culture, cultivate contemporary people-leadership capabilities at all levels, and enable access to learning resources and experiences to develop talent at all levels of the organization.

Ossining, Ny

Developed and managed a ~$9MM portfolio of learning solutions for GE’s ~44,000 mid-level leaders and managers; led a team of designers and learning professionals to design, deliver, and manage multi-modal learning products to meet a variety of leadership and professional development needs; leveraged multiple adaptive, instructional design, and communication techniques to creatively and effectively engage leaders in unique learning experiences and prepare them to meet business challenges while transforming their teams and organizations to serve our customers and grow in complex, uncertain environments.

Ossining, Ny

Led the design, management and delivery of leadership courses and custom development experiences for executive and senior executive leaders and intact business leadership teams in GE. Specific activities included: consulting with leaders and assessing individual and team development needs; partnering with other Crotonville Leadership team members to design and develop unique learning experiences; managing GE's Experienced Leaders Challenge course for experienced executive leaders; designing and facilitating customized interventions to improve business leadership teams' collaboration skills, team dynamics, and approaches to meet strategic goals; challenging leaders to find and achieve their transformation opportunities; and participating in the global Crotonville Leadership organization to continue refining and enhancing GE's leadership learning experiences.

Norwalk, Ct Usa

Led GE Capital Real Estate’s global leadership and employee development team and strategy to develop the organization’s talent and enhance its culture of continuous learning. Specific activities included: partnering with our business leaders and managers to develop, implement and assess business training strategies that will develop the leadership and technical skills necessary to meet the business’ strategic objectives; coordinating development efforts across business platforms to drive change acceleration and global collaboration; leading, managing and developing the global L&D team to design, deliver and share creative, engaging and effective sessions to meet common development gaps and help leaders progress at all career stages; coaching executive and mid-level leaders on ways to improve their effectiveness, meet development challenges, and grow and engage their employees; designing, managing and facilitating GE Capital's business-wide executive level leadership development course; participating in learning councils in GE and GE Capital to share best practices and partner on common initiatives.

Ossining, Ny

Designed, facilitated and managed executive, leadership, innovation, and customer education programs and experiences to develop talent at all organizational levels, meet strategic goals, and drive transformational change. Cultivated GE’s innovative culture by developing and managing GE’s set of innovation learning offerings to help teams explore newopportunities and drive growth through targeted innovation development techniques. Designed and managed GE’s Leadership, Innovation and Growth executive program to help hundreds of business leadership teams and thousands of leaders accelerate their global growth strategies and create business cultures that support innovation and growth. Served as a key innovation and culture resource to GE teams and leaders globally; activities included leading sessions to increase employees’ and customers' awareness of innovation, designing and facilitating innovation lab sessions to help teams identify new growth opportunities, and training facilitators across GE to use various methods to engage teams in their businesses in effective innovation efforts.

Fairfield, Ct

Increased company-wide engagement in corporate marketing and sales efforts by designing and managing multimedia communications for the CMO and corporate staff; vehicles included intranet portals, webcasts, online chats, emails, and live presentations. Led corporate marketing operations efforts for Imagination Breakthrough growth projects, ecomagination launch communications, and other corporate efforts to ensure connection between the overall corporate growth strategy and business-level activities. Led the rollout of innovation awareness and practice methods from corporate marketing across GE’s business units, including the design and introduction of a mobile innovation lab, a set of facilitation techniques to help teams explore, identify, and pursue new innovation opportunities.

Cincinnati, Oh

Enhanced business-wide understanding of IT value through ongoing strategic communications. Developed IT employee population globally by designing and implementing a Project Management (PMP) certification program and teaching andcoaching project management skills. Facilitated IT employee engagement through strategic communications, key employee events, customer education, and IT senior leadership coaching.

Overland Park, Ks

Established and led ERC’s organizational communications team to enhance employee understanding and improve business leaders' communication effectiveness to achieve business results. Increased employee engagement, goal alignment and overall satisfaction as measured using GE’s company-wide employee opinion survey. Completed eight-month integration team assignment in the Global P&C Re business unit, primarily focused on ensuring completion of HR-related actions and driving standardization of key business processes in portfolio management and underwriting.

Stamford, Ct And Mason, Oh

Held roles with increasing responsibility for information technology communications and employee development efforts in GE’s consumer finance business units. Established a technical communication function and team to enhance system usability for GE customers and employees and enhance employee awareness and engagement in IT initiatives. Helped fill critical IT skill and talent pipeline needs and developed IT employee talent base by designing and implementing a variety of learning, communication, engagement and award programs.

Middletown, Oh

Worked on grant proposal, partner engagement, and educator conferences to further the Center's reach and effectiveness in science education from kindergarten through college.

Mtsc, Technical Communication

Ba, Organizational Communications & Hr Management

Activities and Societies: Alpha Sigma Nu, speech team

Continuous Education, Organizational Leadership

Attending various leadership and management courses; also served as faculty, facilitator and coach since 2006