Dr. Richard Leslie Parrott is the Founder and President of Seize Your Life, a corporation devoted to helping individuals and organizations take hold of life’s full potential by guiding them on a journey toward inner strength, personal purpose, healthy relationships, good character, and mature wisdom. The process helps individuals and organizations reach their goals through enhanced interpersonal intelligence, pervasive integrity, strategic wisdom, and empowering presence.

Dr. Parrott has served in professional Leadership for 35 years. For six years he was the Director of the Doctoral Program at Ashland University and Assistant Professor of Leadership. He is also the founding Executive Director of the Sandberg Leadership Center at Ashland University, and had oversight of a million dollar Lilly grant on mentoring Leaders. He has facilitated national roundtables, edited books on; Leadership Character, Leadership, and Power.

Dr. Parrott is the author of Essentials – The Proven Path of Effective Leadership, which is a five book series. He also has authored Carpe’ Vitam: Seize Your Life, True and Best – Authentic Living, The Balanced Leader, Personalities @ Work Master Series and Better Answers to Tougher Questions. Additionally, Dr. Parrott has created of a series of audio books, Welcome to the Balcony, which guide the listener on a path of personal and professional leadership development.

His particular interest and expertise is personal and professional development. Richard is frequently called upon to speak and lead seminars and development programs. He has worked collaboratively with Leadership centers at Yale, Claremont, and Gordon-Conwell. He is a keynote speaker for groups such as ServiceMaster Clean. He has held seminars in strategic planning, team building, and Leadership development for groups such as the State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy, the State of Ohio Executive Board of the Chamber of Commerce, the Seattle Leadership Conference, the Caucus of Republican Senators of the Ohio State Legislature, and the Special Operations group of the Federal Marshals, Justice Department, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Parrott has created and currently presents three Leadership seminar series. 1) Essentials: The Proven Path of Effective Leadership, 2) The Leadership Development Program, and 3) Transformational Coaching, a companion series for executive managers. These programs increase personal authenticity, improve professional competency, and impact business capacity.

Dr. Parrott has also written a program on improving relationships. It is based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Personalities @ Work Master Series is seven (7) sessions that introduce team members to “personality types,” involves them in personal discovery, and provides group conversations on topics such as “Communication Problems,” “Conflict,” and “What works best for me.” An on-line MBTI personality assessment is included. This provides a powerful tool for building relationships in the team.

Dr. Parrott travels with his wife, Shirley. Shirley has been a Realtor for twenty years and was in the top 1% of all Realtor’s in the nation for nine consecutive years. Shirley currently holds an inactive Real Estate Brokers License with the State of Oregon. Shirley works full time for Seize Your Life, Inc., traveling with Richard.

Dr. Parrott and Shirley are co-founders of Seize Your Life, Inc. They are fully committed to helping individuals and organizations realize life’s full potential.

Dr. Parrott was educated at Eastern Nazarene College (B.A.), University of Missouri (M.A. in Psychology), Nazarene Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and received his Ph.D. from Oregon State University in Education Administration.

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