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Serve to Inspire Transformation in Others

We’re Helping to Create Healthy Work Cultures by Changing the Way People Think about Leadership and Apply It! 

When you serve with all your heart and through powerful words and actions, you inspire transformation in the hearts, minds, and lives of those around you, inevitably creating a healthy and happy work culture and environment that benefits all. 

  • Author of The Thinking Leader: Effective Lessons for Everyday Leadership and Public Speaking Insider Tips You Won’t Find on Google

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  • Renowned leadership thought leader and trainer of leadership trainers and management consultants (a/k/a “The Trainer’s Trainer”)

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  • Award-winning speaker

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  • Former Higher Educational Leader

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  • Retired Senior Federal Law Enforcement Officer

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Dr. Ralph Hughes' inspiring and empowering keynote speeches and workshops will ignite your audience 

HERE IS WHAT 
DR. RALPH HUGHES CAN DO FOR YOU

Dr. Ralph Hughes is on a fierce mission to help organizational and aspiring leaders cultivate a culture of servant and transformational leadership, be resilient, embrace change, become more harmonious and empathetic, change the false perception of leadership, and be well-balanced, adaptable, relevant, and successfully competitive in the 21st Century. 

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Dr. Ralph Hughes is a high-energy, inspiring, empowering, engaging, and impactful keynote speaker and leadership trainer. He loves to have fun while elevating participants to higher levels. Dr. Hughes brings passion and excitement to audiences when sharing real-life stories of resilience and mental toughness growing up in Harlem, New York, to the career professional and leadership expert working in the business, education, and law enforcement fields.

 

Dr. Hughes uses his skills and background to help organizational leaders create sustainable leadership development programs, become resilient, excellent, successful, and to survive and thrive. 

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All of Dr. Hughes' speeches are inspiring and empowering, whether in person or virtual, and packed with pertinent information and interactive to ensure participants retain the majority of the information that they can recall and apply immediately. 

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With a doctorate in strategic leadership, his work isn't just academic—it's woven into real-world practice. Dr. Hughes prides himself on providing participants with tools that they can implement in the real world immediately.

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HELPING TO CHANGE WORK CULTURES

Dr. Hughes has over 25 years of combined experience and education in leadership and is a well-known, respected, and highly influential leadership expert, mainly in the areas of leadership development, organizational behavior, and organizational change, who has literally trained thousands of people, facilitated hundreds of classes and workshops, and delivered over one-hundred empowering speeches on helping individuals and organizations to achieve their goals through having a strategic and bold plan of action. 

HELPING TO SHAPE WORK-LIFE BALANCE

Dr. Hughes is a bridge between personal struggles and professional success. He understands the grit needed for excellence. His exemplary teachings in areas of self-motivation, brand management, resilience, and living a life of excellence have proven to yield remarkable results for his audiences.

 

Dr. Hughes can help members of your organization become resilient, adapt to change, develop a mentally tough and winning attitude, foster a leadership mindset and a leadership culture, and become healthy and happy by using strategic insights and practical solutions with the goals of creating internal and external development and growth, while potentially helping to lower attrition. 

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WHY DR. HUGHES

A different approach, using the THINK leadership method.

Dr. Hughes' success is mainly attributed to his blended facilitation formula and going well beneath the surface to explore the subject (instead of performing topical or superficial training), which has been proven to get results. Dr. Hughes focuses on:

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  • Content - comprised of relevant and vital information

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  • Delivery - masterful facilitation and engagement

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  • Action - participants apply what they learned to the real world

Signature Keynote Speech Topics (In Minutes)

20-60

THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF LEADERSHIP

30-90

FROM BURNING OUT TO CHILLING OUT

30-60

MENTAL TOUGHNESS

25-60

CREATING A NICHE

EXPERIENCED SPEAKER & EDUCATOR

Major Speaking Events 

In addition to giving speeches at significant organizations, including Broward Health, Re/Max, The Diplomat Golf & Tennis Club, Progressive Insurance, Palm Beach State College, and DeVry University, to name a few, Dr. Ralph Hughes has spoken as an emcee before crowds from 1,500 to 20,000 at Amerant Bank Arena, formerly the BB&T Center, the Watsco Center, formerly the BankUnited Center, and the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

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20,000 PEOPLE (2013 & 2014)

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1,500 PEOPLE (2012)

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10,000 PEOPLE (2015 & 2016)

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200 PEOPLE (2016)

HERE'S WHAT PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY

Here are a few testimonials based on Dr. Hughes' speeches, workshops, and consultation. 

TESTIMONIAL

Plantation, FL

"Dr. Hughes is really passionate about making people's lives better. He has a very motivating and captivating personality.  He wants you to do better and tells you how to do better. He actually cares!" 

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