Roger Rickard
Featured Keynote Programs
Seven Actions of Highly Effective Advocates
How do we create the influence needed to support long term viability? Inspire, educate, engage, and activate your supporters by turning them into effective, influential advocates.
1. Believe
You can make a difference. Willingness to fight for your beliefs, defend a cause, stand up, express your opinion or share your story; you have a choice to act purposefully. You have to believe that it matters if you take action.
2. Be Informed
Read and research. When you have a passion for something, you are driven to search out more information and opinions on the topic. Being informed enables you to effectively speak on behalf of your issue.
3. Discuss the Issues
Spread the word. Share your information amongst peer groups and friends. Talk with them and listen to their views about these issues.
4. Get on the Record
Write, speak out, and act. Your passion or opinion about your cause and issue should be on the record. Your voice should be on the record!
5. Be a Resource
Provide expertise. Think of the knowledge and experience you can bring to the table. Your voice will be magnified as you earn your way towards social and political change by being a resource.
6. Volunteer
Play a part for the cause. One of the best commitments you can make is your time. Giving time, energy, or talent to any individual or group for which the individual is not paid defines volunteerism.
7. Contribute
Donate money or time. You CAN make a difference when you commit dollars to organizations, campaigns, foundations, and charities that support your cause. People who give contribute influence.
PACman — The Game to Drive Results
A little over 40 years ago, the video game PAC-MAN was all the rage. PAC-MAN requires speed, agility, and a plan of attack. Like any game – you need to know the rules to succeed. For a political action committee, money drives impact. Money is the food and fuel for which PACs run on.
Ripped from the Headlines
Every day we hear about fake news. This session will be anything but fake. The reason: YOU drive the content. During this highly interactive program you will examine, deliberate, and discuss your issues in different silos, i.e. transportation, technology, safety and security, cyber-security, taxes, infrastructure, diversity/inclusion, education, etc.
The Power of Your Voice
How do you create the influence and impact needed to empower you to be an advocate for yourself?
Learn what it means to be a self-advocate and depart knowing you have a powerful voice to defend and protect your self interests.
The Seven Branches of the Advocacy Tree
Advocacy is more than government affairs. Knowledge of the branches of the advocacy tree, who uses them and how you can too.
Elephants Don’t Bite — Donkeys Don’t Kick
Fear of feeling misunderstood or unwise is one of the main reasons people do not engage with their elected officials. This session dispels this fear and empowers one to become an engaged non-partisan advocate.