Rick Crossland
A Player Advantage LLC
Dublin, Ohio, United States
About
In addition to being a Scaling Up-Rockefeller Habits™ Certified Coach, Rick Crossland is the author of The A Player and a contributor to Scaling Up. He specializes in growing people to grow businesses with a focus on growing net income. He is based in Columbus, Ohio and enjoys working with high growth companies around the country.
To help you and your company on your journey of excellence, Rick genuinely walks the talk when it comes to being an A Player. He has over 30 years of experience developing, recruiting and leading high performers, and developing high performing cultures at companies. He is an expert at the Scaling Up strategic planning framework and implements this framework on a propriety online strategic planning and execution platform to allow transparency for plan execution to the entire executive team. Rick is a recognized authority on A Players and trains his clients in Topgrading™ hiring methodologies to validate high performing talent.
Before founding his strategic planning, executive coaching and executive recruiting practice twelve years ago, Rick held positions of increasing leadership responsibility at Johnson and Johnson, ICI-Zeneca, Planters-Lifesavers, Ford Motor Company, and Limited Brands.
Rick holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Delaware and a MBA from Duke University. In addition, his thought leadership on business growth, coaching, talent and recruiting has been published in leading business sites such as Inc.com, Entrepreneur.com, Fortune.com, Recruiter.com and Leadership Insights among others.
Professional Highlights
Helping well over 40 companies scale up to achieve record profitability through better systems and results in People, Strategy, Execution and Cash. Published The A Player in 2017 to help individuals and companies improve their performance. Founded the Columbus Business Growth Club in 2010 to serve high growth companies. It has become one of the most successful business organizations in Central Ohio.
Personal Highlights
Rick is actively involved in the Boy Scouts of America and has helped mentor over 20 scouts to achieve the Eagle Scout rank. He's an avid photographer and aspiring tennis player. He also enjoys bicycling, hiking as well as cooking. He actively reads at least 2 books per month and frequently writes leadership and business articles to advance thought leadership in these areas.
Coaching Regions
US - Northeast
US - Southeast
US - Midwest
US - Southwest
US - West
Industry of Expertise
Accounting/Finance
Automotive
Building/Construction
Coaching/Business Consulting
Computer/IT/Software Development
Education/Training
Engineering
Food Services/Hospitality
Legal Services
Logistics/Transportation
Mfg./Production/Ops.
Retail
Other
“When we started Scaling Up we wanted to get the right coach to fit our company, Kaivac, Inc. We found Scaling Up had a great network of coaches throughout the Midwest and interviewed 6 different coaches. We made the right pick with Rick Crossland. Rick is a world class coach, he pushes and encourages all of my team to be their very best and puts time, energy, and effort into making us better. Rick is highly energetic, wise for his age, quick to read people, very knowledgeable of many and varied business issues, and truly wants us to win! In less than a year, our business is up over 60% in spite of the Corona Virus and other head winds affecting the economy. His book, The A Player and the Scaling Up road map are setting the bar for our employees and Rick is helping our entire team to reach our goals. If you are serious about growth and looking for a great coach and adviser, I highly recommend Rick”
— Bob Robinson, Sr. President/Founder | Kaivac, Inc.
“Rick has immersed himself into our business and industry to help us immediately address our challenges. His strategic approach to our business, specifically the sales process, helped us to develop a digital sales playbook as well as a lead measure tracking system to drive accountability throughout the organization. Combining these improvements with his approach to attracting and retaining “A Player” talent has been a tremendous asset for our business including the turnaround of a key region, reduction of employee turnover, and the coaching and development of several rising leaders.”
— Matt Butzier, COO | The Palmer-Donavin Manufacturing Company
“Rick has been an executive coach to many of Palmer-Donavin’s key executives since 2016, helping these leaders achieve peak performance through new and more strategic ways to approach the business and lead their teams through his Scaling Up and A Player methodologies. He achieves this through robust and proven “how to” systems that also reinforce our core values. This work has led to very impressive sustained results, process and cultural changes in our organization. As the author of The A Player, Rick knows talent! In addition to his coaching, his organization has successfully recruited multiple candidates for key executive positions including my successor for the CFO role. He has introduced the Topgrading interview methodology to our company which has improved our success rate in hiring and promoting the right executives. If your organization is ready to be challenged and energized, Rick will help you get to the next level, by improving your talent and bottom-line. He is a trusted and “go to” partner for us.”
- Robyn Pollina, CEO, |The Palmer-Donavin Manufacturing Company