Rick Beyer

A seasoned speaker who has engaged numerous audiences, Rick’s topics include A Long Strange Trip: Tales from Music History, Innovation Under Your Nose, Getting to Eureka, Adventures in History Filmmaking, The Ghost Army, and Rick’s Rules of History. His presentations are spiked with humor, creative visuals and quirky props. They have proven popular at conferences, corporations, schools, universities, libraries and other venues.





Below:  An excerpt from Rick's January 2011 Keynote Address for the Medtronic Neuromodulation Division's Innovation Week.

                   

“If you are a conference organizer or meeting planner looking for a keynote speaker to both educate and entertain, book Rick Beyer and your members will think you’re a genius! He skillfully illustrates his witty, well prepared commentary with engaging visuals and audio clips, and turns the audience into active participants.”

             Madeleine Crouch
             Executive Director
             Retail Print Music Dealers Association

"He masterfully delivered highlights of our institution’s 50 year history, in a way that was not only entertaining but also laced with insights unbeknownst even to those whose story he told. Rarely are story-tellers so engaging while describing reality, as is Mr. Beyer."

              Dr. William Evans
              Director and CEO
              St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

     

"Thank you very much for your thought-provoking and captivating presentation last week.  It was a perfect capstone to our Innovation Week and your engaging presentation received a lot of very positive comments.  I am confident that the messages and corresponding examples that you left will translate into people thinking differently about how they approach the whole concept of innovation."

             Thomas M. Tefft
             Sr. Vice President & President, Neuromodulation
             Medtronic, Inc.

“We'll be talking about it for years.”

               Gary L. Ingle
               Executive Director and CEO
               Music Teachers National Association

“Our hope for an audience of 75 was soon replaced with concern about where to put the 350+ people who streamed into our library gallery…just remarkable.”

               Karen Jordan
               Outreach Librarian
               University of Michigan

We made a wise decision in asking Rick Beyer to be our guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Friends of Cary Library.  The topic, "Adventures in History Filmmaking"  was intriguing, complete with the buzzing of mosquitoes, and the burning of a bonfire, giving us all a feel of the adventure of tracking history.  It was a delightful talk.

Phyllis Brooks
President, Friends of Cary Memorial Library
Lexington, MA

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