Ricardo Palomares

This keynote gives audiences a step-by-step process on how to achieve / overcome what seems impossible. Either at work or in our personal lives, we all have a massive goal that we would like to achieve or a massive obstacle that we would like to overcome. This keynote will give audiences focus, purpose, self-reliance, and determination to get to the final destination while enjoying the journey.

The way we achieve great goals and overcome seemingly unconquerable obstacles, is through great leadership. We are all leaders inside. We lead at work, at home, in relationships, and among friends… and most importantly, we lead ourselves on a daily basis through our thoughts, words, and actions. The main purpose of a leader is to serve. Using compassion as the compass to lead will bring better and long lasting results within the team. This keynote will train your audience how to achieve goals while treating the team and oneself with more empathy.

What makes a great team is the amount of trust, support, and loyalty that there is between each member. A good team can become great by creating a brotherhood of individuals who care for each other, recognize their strengths and weaknesses, share leadership and move forward together. This keynote will train your team how to become brothers (and sisters) so they can achieve any goal together.

There is an incredible amount of fulfillment and self knowledge that comes when you bet on yourself, listen to your feelings, follow your intuition, and develop your ideas. We all have unique talents and strengths, and when we make full use of them by doing what comes naturally, we can achieve incredible success and contentment. This keynote focuses on training your audience to become more self-reliant and confident with who they are so they can achieve massive results.

After leading a team cycling from Alaska to Argentina over the course of 21 months, I realized that the main reason we were able to accomplish what we set out to do was because of the different perspectives the team brought to the table. Bringing different perspective to the table will challenge the status quo, and will create a culture of constant growth.

Learning Objectives:

1. Embrace different perspectives
2. Welcome collaboration
3. Change and adapt constantly

After leading a team cycling from Alaska to Argentina over the course of 21 months, I learned is that even though we have some beautiful differences between each other, we are more similar than what we think across the Americas. We all have the need for love, connection, and contribution. If we can get to know each other, we can be more compassionate towards one another. And if we do that we can impact the way we do everything.

Learning Objectives:

1. We all need love, connection, and contribution
2. What separates us is our perspectives
3. The more you understand the world, the more you will understand yourself

As I cycled 14,000 miles across the Americas with the goal to make a documentary that would be a perspective on how people live in the Americas today, my job became to connect with people. The key thing that got me to immerse myself in any culture that I came across with, was showing them that I truly cared. The honest and true care for the individual that I was interviewing.

Teamwork is key to accomplish any goal. While there is many team dynamics out there, there is one universal element that can improve any team, Care. When you care for yourself, for your team, and for the people that you serve you exponentially increase your chances of success.

Learning Objectives:

1. Caring for someone will break any barrier
2. Create change by serving others

At the beginning of a almost two year expedition I was blessed to meet a lady that gave me advice that helped me endure 21 months of pushing myself beyond what I thought it was possible, and that was “Learn to Love the Pain”. During our entire journey every time that I was cold, hungry, or exhausted I told myself that I needed to learn to love that moment.

Once I arrived at the bottom of the world I realized that “Learn to Love the Pain” means Learn to Love the Process of Growth. Because within pain there is the potential for change, growth, and compassion. Within pain, there is the potential for self-discovery.

Learning Objectives:

1. Within pain there is the potential for change, growth, and compassion
2. Within pain there is the potential for self-discovery
3. Learn to love the process of growth