Ricky Powell

Professional Sales and Leadership Coach

Meet Ricky Powell

Ricky Powell began his professional career at the age of seven as a child actor in the 1970’s, working with many of Hollywood’s biggest legends. After graduating from CSUN with a degree in film and television, Ricky moved behind the camera. He worked for five years in post-production on The Golden Girls before arriving at NBC where he spent the next twenty-five years putting every comedy, drama, and reality show on the air.

He acted as the liaison between the outside producers and all the internal teams at the company. In 2009, Ricky helped charter [email protected] Toastmasters and served multiple terms as club president. He earned the designation of DTM, the highest achievement in the toastmasters curriculum.

In 2012, Ricky wrote and published a book about happiness entitled, Happiness Rocks: A Powerful Blueprint to Master the Art of Lifelong Happiness. To celebrate the book’s launch, he was invited to do a book signing at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

By the time he left the network in 2015, Ricky had become an author, speaker, corporate trainer, and executive coach. He has spoken and trained on many topics including positive psychology, communication, presentation skills, sales, leadership, conflict resolution, time management, and neurolinguistic programming.

Ricky provides employees, leaders, and entrepreneurs with tools and coaching sessions to help them feel supported, engaged, productive, and positive. This produces increased levels of their professional and personal success and happiness. In turn, this provides greater sales and productivity, higher profits, and lower turnover for the companies and organizations they serve.

A handful of his happy former clients include the US Navy, US Senate, Cushman & Wakefield, Raytheon, One West Bank, Oracle, Amtrak, NBC Universal, Warner Brothers, Paramount, United Talent Agency, HBO, and many more.

His favorite quote comes from Jim Rohn and was transformational in his life, “Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.” Upon reflecting on this quote, Ricky realized that his personal philosophy is that everything happens for a reason.

He helps anyone he works with who cannot subscribe to this philosophy understand that all they need to do is eliminate the last three words, leaving just, “Everything happens.” At that point, life becomes 10% what happens and 90% how you respond to it.

Ricky lives in Thousand Oaks with his wife, Jenna, and their two children, Emma and Jack.