Ron Crossland

Ron Crossland has worked with talent from the boiler room to the boardroom, a range of experience that has taught him that regardless of position, an individual's work matters.

Ron has been an organizational consultant and educator since 1985. Whether he is delivering a keynote or engaged with a small group over a two-day workshop experience, he knows how to blend science and art, data and philosophy, with theory and practicality to achieve an enviable goal for educators: To help leaders discover practical applications they can use right away as well as prompt them to reconsider longer term leadership positions and practices. He has helped scores of individuals, teams, and organizations develop better leaders, be more innovative, forge better internal and external relationships, and inspire greater performance.

Ron is a five-time entrepreneur and has held founding and/or executive positions in the following companies:

International Leadership Associates (Co-Founder)

Tom Peters Company (former Vice-Chair)

Tom Peters Company, Ltd. (current Managing Partner)

Bluepoint Leadership Development (former Chairman)

He is a writer, an intuitionist, a factoid junkie, and a research synthesizer, in addition to being a keynoter for company meetings, industry association events, seminars and workshops, and other events.

Ron co-authored The Leader’s Voice: How Your Communication Can Inspire Action and Get Results! (2002), a "clever and compelling read" that has received praise from The Harvard Communication Newsletter, Robert Morris—one of Amazon’s “top ten reviewer’s”—and the Business Book Review. The second edition was released May 2008.

He is also co-author of The Leadership Experience: From Individual Success to Organizational Significance (2007), which according to Jim Kouzes is "a splendidly written account of the challenges that leaders face in their two vital arenas of action—the organizational and the personal."

Ron holds a BS degree in Electronic Engineering Technology and an MBA from Oklahoma State University. He recently was named to 2011's list of the top 50 MBA graduates from OSU’s Spears School of Business.