What people are saying.

  • "Of particular value was a truly unique way of thinking about what is at the heart of people’s performance on the job. That perspective was embodied in certain outside-the-box ideas which I was able to apply immediately, and that really transformed my approach to my work and my managing and leading others. I am sure there are many competent executive coaches, but the value Rik provided was extraordinary."

    — VINCE BOWEY | Former Head of Online Sales and Marketing, Wells Fargo Bank

  • "I became much more skillful and proactive in using what I said and how I said it to impact the performance of my team. I was surprised at how much I could elevate the performance of people whom I thought might be at their limit."

    — DOUG THOMPSON | Former CEO, Avolent Software

  • "The work Rik Super did with us on ensuring the success of a major software project was excellent, because it got all of us outside our usual way of thinking and actually produced a transformation in how we work. The value Rik brought to helping our team get clarity and begin to pull together as a team around that single clarity, and the level of powerful commitment Rik was able to elicit from the team members, made a huge difference."

    — GERALD CUNNINGAM | Former VP, Product Management, Nonstop Solutions

  • "Your mastery of design and facilitation created an environment for our entire management team to look beyond what existed, and create and articulate a bold future. In contrast to traditional consulting, your unique approach, setting of unreasonable outcomes, and delivering on your promises is a refreshing change and a pleasure to experience."

    - HARALD WILL | President & CEO, Galvanize

  • "The results went far beyond my expectations. I was able to deal with a series of breakdowns and challenging personnel issues, to empower the management team and get them on a sound footing, and to instill a spirit of consistency and reliability."

    - SAM BORGESE | CEO, Catalina Resstaurant Group (Formerly CEO, Bay Logics)

  • "In a very short time with Rik’s coaching – and starting from the first conversation – I significantly elevated my ability to lead and inspire my executive team, and at the same time enhanced my skill at managing a wide range of people, learning to hold executives to account while at the same time providing them with support and partnership – not an easy thing to do."

    - JIM PFLAGING | CEO, Intraspect

  • "Rik and his people listen to the business outcome you want to produce, then design a project to produce that outcome. They have no agenda other than to deliver, with you, the breakthrough outcome you are targeting."

    - PATRICK MAHAFFEY | Vice President, Brightware Inc.

  • "The results achieved with Rik Super were visible, persistent, and best of all, viral in the way they spread through the organization. . . my notion of what constitutes a 'team' is forever changed."

    - BARRY HILLS | Former VP Systems Development, Tandem Computers

  • "Rik quickly helps the CEO identify outrageous goals and then works with the CEO and his team to make those outrageous goals happen."

    - CHRIS RISLEY | CEO, Nominum

  • "Rik was able to school me in an expertise about the different kinds of conversations to have with people… how to approach, persuade and ultimately obtain people’s enthusiastic commitment to new ideas and tactics. This particular expertise in communication and perspective has stayed with me to this day, and I credit it for a number of significant accomplishments. He ranks among the best on my list of executive coaches I worked with over the years. I recommend him highly for assisting on highly complex and significant change efforts where executive excellence is important and highly visible."

    - GREG THOMPSON | Former Head of Human Resources, Owens Corning

  • "Now, our executive team is passionately committed to the same goals, challenges each other to think in new ways and holds each other to account in a way that is constructive. We deal with breakdowns and chaos without losing our way. This is true of the whole team—not just the few “good” people—and better yet, this sense of teamwork has begun to filter into our senior management as well."

    - DEREK BURNEY | CEO, Corel Corporation

  • "The work that we did with Rik Super allowed us to really take great strides in becoming not just a company with a great technology, but organizationally excellent as well. That included developing a culture of communication and shared practices, and learning to bring some real accountability and rigor to our daily work habits and operations. Rik’s support was invaluable in moving us from a loosely-managed company of engineers to a well-managed company that demonstrated real operational excellence."

    - PATRICK BARKHORDARIAN Ph.D. | CEO, Longview International