Business Communication Expert and New York Times Bestselling Author
For more than twenty-eight years, Ron McMillan has helped union and first-level managers, CEOs, and corporate executives become measurably more vital by advising them on topics including team development, personal vitality, quality, communication, and results-oriented leadership. Cofounder of VitalSmarts, Ron has researched methods for driving rapid, sustainable, and measurable change in behaviors.
Bestselling Author
Ron is the coauthor of seven books, three of which are The New York Times bestsellers Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when Stakes are High and Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior. Recognized as a subject-matter expert in interpersonal relationships, corporate culture change, and workplace issues, Ron has been featured widely in the national media including NPR, Inc. magazine, and the New York Times.
Business Consulting Expert
A pioneer in the training industry, Ron cofounded the Covey Leadership Center where he helped to develop numerous training programs including Principle Centered Leadership and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Ron is cofounder of VitalSmarts and currently serves on its board of directors. With award-winning training products based on thirty years of ongoing research, VitalSmarts has helped more than three hundred of the Fortune 500 realize significant results using a proven method for driving rapid, sustainable and measurable change in behaviors. VitalSmarts has been ranked twice by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in America and has taught two million people worldwide.
Seasoned Speaker
A gifted speaker, Ron has appeared at hundreds of conferences, conventions and management retreats for associations such as the American Society of Training and Development, Human Resource Development, and Direct Selling Association. Additionally, Ron has appeared before corporate clients including Lockheed Martin, AT&T, Nike, Saturn, Hewlett-Packard, Ford, Lennox, Disney, Harley Davidson, Mayo Clinic, and Intel. Ron’s unrivaled ability to delight a crowd and inspire his audience to improve their personal and professional lives has clients asking for his return again and again.
Business Communication Expert and New York Times Bestselling Author
For more than twenty-eight years, Ron McMillan has helped union and first-level managers, CEOs, and corporate executives become measurably more vital by advising them on topics including team development, personal vitality, quality, communication, and results-oriented leadership. Cofounder of VitalSmarts, Ron has researched methods for driving rapid, sustainable, and measurable change in behaviors.
Bestselling Author
Ron is the coauthor of seven books, three of which are The New York Times bestsellers Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when Stakes are High and Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior. Recognized as a subject-matter expert in interpersonal relationships, corporate culture change, and workplace issues, Ron has been featured widely in the national media including NPR, Inc. magazine, and the New York Times.
Business Consulting Expert
A pioneer in the training industry, Ron cofounded the Covey Leadership Center where he helped to develop numerous training programs including Principle Centered Leadership and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Ron is cofounder of VitalSmarts and currently serves on its board of directors. With award-winning training products based on thirty years of ongoing research, VitalSmarts has helped more than three hundred of the Fortune 500 realize significant results using a proven method for driving rapid, sustainable and measurable change in behaviors. VitalSmarts has been ranked twice by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in America and has taught two million people worldwide.
Seasoned Speaker
A gifted speaker, Ron has appeared at hundreds of conferences, conventions and management retreats for associations such as the American Society of Training and Development, Human Resource Development, and Direct Selling Association. Additionally, Ron has appeared before corporate clients including Lockheed Martin, AT&T, Nike, Saturn, Hewlett-Packard, Ford, Lennox, Disney, Harley Davidson, Mayo Clinic, and Intel. Ron’s unrivaled ability to delight a crowd and inspire his audience to improve their personal and professional lives has clients asking for his return again and again.
Crucial Conversations
Influencer
10X Your Influence
Change Anything
Four Crucial Skills of a High-Performance Culture
The Science of Leadership
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MBNA America
On-Site
S.J., SVP, MBNA America
Ron McMillan gives every minute its sixty second's worth! His time with you will be engaging, interactive, and bottom line, influential. Ron offers uncommon common sense when it comes to life's crucial conversations.
AIG
On-Site
P.P., Proffessional Development Manager, AIG
Ron showed a real passion for the power of crucial conversations in out lives and how we can affect them, rather than just be affected by them. He shared some very illustrative personal stories in order to emphasized the teaching points and was very thorough in the topics he covered.
Trustmark Insurance Company
On-Site
L.R.P., Director, Organization Developments, Trustmark Insurance Company
Ron McMillan is a wonderfully gifted and highly entertaining speaker who uses humor and energy to deliver a superb communications model for dealing with difficult conversations.



