In business, there are often fears of litigation, protecting one’s intellectual property, closely guarding those rule changes that everyone once freely shared as kids with their playmates. Playground running has been replaced by bright fluorescent lights and safety protocols around the office. Comfortable, loose-fitting clothing replaced by tailored slacks, shirts, and suits, and business shoes. The once free reign everyone had to call out changes and suggestions have been replaced by a suggestion form on the company’s intranet, and the decision to go home when you felt like is now frowned upon in many business positions audience members may find themselves in, finding peers shaking their heads and making comments about a lack of work ethic under their breath.
Enter Deryck Richardson! Folks, if you’re looking for a guest to change the game and offer some brand new, disrupting concepts in business success and employee satisfaction, look no further than our next guest, Deryck Richardson! His new business playbook, “Go Play: The Ultimate Road Map to Winning the Game of Life” (ISBN 978-1628656794 by Authors Place Press Available on Kindle Unlimited and $19.95 as a Paperback) is an inspiring book on motivation and mindset. As a child, the audience was likely taught to “Go Play!” Think about that! No instructions are needed to figure out how to get this done. Games are made up on-the-fly, new rules can be added at any time to change the way things are if games become stale, and everyone works as teams to achieve objectives and have a lot of fun doing it! So then, why, as adults, do we make things so difficult?
About The Author:
Deryck Richardson is the President and CEO of Richardson Marketing Group, LLC a marketing firm specifically designed to increase customer acquisition efforts of insurance agents. Deryck is also a partner in an insurance agency and is the acting COO of Freedom Direct, LLC. In 2016 both businesses moved into a call center in Columbus, Ohio. Employees enjoy excellent pay, a full benefits package, ping-pong, foosball, video game nooks, and a relaxed dress code. With elite training and continuous education and coaching, the Richardson Marketing Group and Freedom Direct are both much more than a fun place to work. Either opportunity provides a career path that will take the right individual to the top! Extremely active in his community, Deryck sits on several boards and volunteers his time, whenever he can, to many different organizations. A one-time school teacher, Deryck has always been committed to developing people. Whether it be kids he coached during his more than 20-year coaching career, young professionals he’s managed and trained, or kids he’s mentored in and out of the classroom, Deryck continues to lead by example and demonstrates that life, for the most part, is a “Pick Your Own Adventure.” Deryck and his wife Desiree have four children. Alex, Luis, Kyahnna, and Caleb. They also have a granddaughter, Genevieve.
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