Rick Miller
Director, Center for Applied Leadership
Rick Miller is Director of the Center for Applied Leadership. Rick uses his Strategic and Ideation themes to create new approaches in the areas of leadership, service, and globalization. He works with community, corporate, and collegiate leaders to better apply their strengths through leadership. A seasoned student affairs professional, Rick is a frequent presenter and consultant at national and international conferences and has spoken at more than 850 campuses across the United States, Canada, and Australia.
Rick's work in creativity, organizational effectiveness, and leadership enables him to assist his campus in implementing strengths campuswide in its academic, operational, and student support areas. His projects include developing mobile and iPhone applications that support the use of strengths. Using strengths as a platform for experiential learning through challenge course exercises, equine interactive leadership experiences (horse sense), game shows, new media, and graphic arts are the current focus of the center. Rick also works with students in the first-year experience, AVID, and Regents Scholars programs. He is involved in several strengths research projects on campus, measuring effectiveness and learning applications as the program develops.
Rick has served on several national and regional boards and is an active volunteer both at home and in professional associations. He earned his undergraduate degree in communication and psychology from Texas A&M University-Commerce. Rick completed graduate and post-graduate work at the University of South Carolina in a unique competency-based program. He and his wife, Belinda, make their home in Commerce, Texas. His Signature Themes are Strategic, Ideation, Individualization, Achiever, and Connectedness.
