The Rick Goings Institute

Program Offerings

Executive Education Programs

Bespoke corporate programs, open-enrollment courses, YPO Rise, experiential learning programs, the Mini MBA, and the full range of initiatives, events, and summits.

Custom Programs

Tailored to your organization's most pressing leadership challenges, co-designed with your team and delivered on-site, at the Institute, or in hybrid format.

Current Trending Topics

RGI builds custom programs around the decisions your leaders are actually navigating, not a standard catalog of topics.

Leadership When the Rules Have ChangedExecutive Presence: How Serious Leaders Show UpStorytelling for CEOs: What Screenwriters Know

What We Offer

✓Curriculum co-designed with your leadership team
✓Delivered on-site, at the Institute, or hybrid
✓Faculty drawn from practitioners and scholars
✓Ongoing advisory relationship available

Who This Is For

Senior and C-Suite Leadership Teams
Mid-Level and High-Potential Leaders
Large-Scale Cross-Organizational Rollouts
Board Development Programs
Industry and Sector Groups

Open Enrollment Courses

Focused, intensive programs — most under one week — open to senior leaders across organizations and sectors.

1 Day$2,400

AI in a Day: A Workshop for Executives

Practical AI fluency built for leaders, not technologists. Covers capabilities, organizational readiness, vendor evaluation, and where human judgment must stay explicit.

1.5 Days$1,800

Executive Presence

A focused intensive on the habits, communication, and presence that distinguish leaders who command rooms from those who occupy them.

YPO Rise

First cohort begins Spring 2027

YPO Rise is built for the high-potential executives you've flagged as ready for greater responsibility. The program develops judgment, peer credibility, and the strategic perspective that accelerates readiness for enterprise leadership.

Rising executives in a leadership development session designed for YPO readiness

What This Format Delivers

  • Executive development for leaders moving into enterprise-level responsibility
  • Focus on judgment under pressure, peer credibility, and strategic perspective
  • Built for founders, operators, and leaders preparing for full enterprise accountability

Experiential Learning

From Disney's operational tunnels to Space Coast launch infrastructure to the factory where Hastens builds its $750,000 beds. RGI designs programs around businesses worth studying. Come prepared to learn.

Executive group on an experiential learning visit exploring a destination and learning from local business leaders

What This Format Delivers

  • Curated itineraries that blend learning, local context, and executive exchange
  • Visits centered on businesses and institutions that define the destination economy
  • Designed to make travel feel intellectually serious, culturally grounded, and genuinely memorable

Mini MBA

The Crummer Certificate in Business Management. Six weeks. Thirteen modules. One program that ties the disciplines together.

Taught by the same faculty who lead Crummer's globally ranked MBA programs, the Mini MBA condenses the MBA mindset into an intensive six-week format designed for professionals who want to sharpen their business judgment without stepping away from their careers. Sessions connect strategy, finance, operations, leadership, and AI-enabled decision-making into a single, integrated perspective.

Business Foundations

How the Business Actually Works

Connect the core disciplines of business — finance, strategy, and operations — into a coherent, decision-ready perspective.

AI and Decision-Making

AI, Judgment, and What Leaders Own

How AI changes decisions, delegation, and accountability. Led by Rihana Msadek, formerly of Google DeepMind.

Leadership and Impact

How Organizations Work and Where Leaders Fit

Build stronger frameworks for understanding how modern organizations work — and how leaders create alignment across them.

Six Weeks · In Person or Virtual · 13 Modules · Crummer Certificate