Behavioral Insight for Stronger Leadership

Understand How You Lead, Communicate, and Influence.

The Maxwell DISC Method provides a practical language for understanding behavioral tendencies, communication preferences, decision-making patterns, and the ways people respond to challenges, relationships, pace, and structure. Rick uses DISC assessments and debriefs to help individuals, teams, business leaders, churches, and men’s organizations strengthen communication, improve self-awareness, navigate differences, and lead more intentionally.

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Interactive leadership and personal-growth training

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Behavioral Insight for Stronger Leadership

Understand How You Lead, Communicate, and Influence.

The Maxwell DISC Method provides a practical language for understanding behavioral tendencies, communication preferences, decision-making patterns, and the ways people respond to challenges, relationships, pace, and structure. Rick uses DISC assessments and debriefs to help individuals, teams, business leaders, churches, and men's organizations strengthen communication, improve self-awareness, navigate differences, and lead more intentionally.

The Maxwell DISC Method Personality Indicators showing Dominant, Influencing, Steady, and Compliant behavioral styles across outgoing, reserved, task-oriented, and people-oriented dimensions.

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DStyle

DOMINANT

Outgoing and task-oriented

Dominant individuals tend to approach challenges directly, make decisions quickly, pursue results, and take action.

How you approach challenges, decisions, action, and results.

IStyle

INFLUENCING

Outgoing and people-oriented

Influencing individuals tend to communicate openly, connect with others, generate enthusiasm, and persuade through relationships.

How you communicate, connect, persuade, and generate enthusiasm.

SStyle

STEADY

Reserved and people-oriented

Steady individuals tend to value consistency, cooperation, support, patience, and dependable relationships.

How you approach consistency, cooperation, support, and change.

CStyle

COMPLIANT

Reserved and task-oriented

Compliant individuals tend to value accuracy, quality, standards, structure, careful analysis, and doing things correctly.

How you approach standards, accuracy, quality, and structure.

DISC describes observable behavioral tendencies and communication preferences. It is not a clinical diagnosis, mental-health evaluation, spiritual assessment, measure of intelligence, or statement of a person's value or character. No single style is better, stronger, more spiritual, or more effective than another.

Possible Services

Training for Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

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Official Certification

Certified Maxwell DISC Consultant

Trained in individual assessments, debriefs, and team leadership workshops.

DISC Assessment and Training Options

Rick combines the Maxwell DISC Method with nearly four decades of practical experience across entrepreneurship, business, leadership, nonprofit service, ministry, and community involvement.

  • Individual Maxwell DISC Assessment
  • Individual Assessment Debrief
  • Leadership Communication Coaching
  • Team DISC Training
  • Sales Communication Training
  • Conflict and Relationship Workshops
  • Church Leadership Training
  • Men's Ministry Leadership Training
  • Business and Organizational Workshops
The Training Approach

Kingdom-Centered, Practically Applied

Rick's Frameworks

The Eight Steps of Ascension of the Warrior, the Three Fires, the Three Domains, and the Kingdom Balance Sheet.

Maxwell Leadership

Established leadership principles supporting coaching, speaking, training, and personal growth.

The Maxwell DISC Method

Behavioral insight that strengthens self-awareness, communication, relationships, and leadership across all four styles.

Rick is a Maxwell Leadership Team Member, Certified DISC Trainer, and Certified DISC Consultant.

Leadership and DISC training are available for businesses, nonprofits, churches, ministries, teams, and service organizations throughout Urbana, Champaign County, Bellefontaine, Logan County, and west-central Ohio.

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Strengthen How Your Team Communicates and Leads.

Whether for an individual assessment, a team workshop, or a leadership training event, the first step is a conversation.