# About URL: https://rgi.rollins.edu/about About the Institute # The Rick Goings Institute for Management and Executive Leadership Leadership education for an era of AI acceleration, geopolitical volatility, and institutional uncertainty. ## Research and Education Built for Real Leadership Demands Drawing on pragmatic liberal arts and advanced management scholarship, the Rick Goings Institute equips senior leaders to build organizations that last, contribute, and stay vital in demanding times. Program participants develop three core operating disciplines that work in combination. ## Three Core Disciplines ### Strategic Foresight The capacity to understand how today's choices shape tomorrow's realities. It draws on prospective analysis and the discipline to recognize patterns before they harden into crises. ### Operational Vitality Treating the organization as a living system. Charts and processes do not create performance; human energy, trust, and belief do. Culture is the medium in which strategy lives or dies. ### Stewardship Mindset Recognizing the firm as a citizen, not just a market actor. Every organization depends on the human and civic environments that grant it legitimacy. The Namesake ## Rick Goings Chairman and CEO, Tupperware Brands (15+ Years) Across a career leading Avon and Tupperware, Rick built global enterprises that paired commercial performance with a deep commitment to the people and communities they served. His decades of work advancing women’s empowerment and youth development have earned international recognition. France named him a Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d’Honneur, one of the country’s highest distinctions, and in 2026 President Emmanuel Macron elevated him to Officer of the Légion d’Honneur, a rare honor for a non-French citizen. Rick brings that same sense of purpose to leadership itself: he reads widely, thinks carefully, practices meditation daily, and believes judgment is shaped by far more than professional success. The Institute carries that philosophy forward by putting leaders in the company of people who have built, led, and served at the highest levels. In His Own Words On Leadership "The best leaders are not the smartest people in the room. They are the ones who create the conditions for others to do their best work." On Culture "Sustained performance is a culture problem, not a strategy problem. The strategy is the easy part. Making an organization believe in it is the work." On This Generation "Executives today face a fundamentally different challenge than any prior generation. The speed of change has outpaced most leadership development systems." ## Fostering Leaders with the Perspective to Lead Wisely Within a few blocks of the Rollins campus, three exceptional institutions exist in rare proximity — each outstanding on its own, and collectively unlike anything else in executive education. Together, they form what might be called the Rollins triangle: a convergence of scholarship, culture, and commerce that creates an unusual environment for leadership development. Scholarship without aesthetic sense produces analysis without wisdom. Commerce without culture produces growth without meaning. Culture without rigorous inquiry produces beauty without direction. The triangle holds because each side depends on the other two. Scholarship #### The Rick Goings Institute Original research and executive education rooted in pragmatic liberal arts and advanced management scholarship. The Institute is where ideas about leadership are developed, tested, and taught. Culture #### The Rollins Museum of Art The Rollins Museum of Art, Rollins College's teaching museum, connects leaders to art, inquiry, and cultural perspective. A reminder that the most lasting work is always both beautiful and purposeful. Commerce #### The Alfond Inn A boutique hotel operating as a social enterprise, with proceeds supporting Rollins student scholarships. Proof that commercial success and civic contribution are not in tension — they are the same project.