Dr. Richard (Rick) Bellingham, Ed.D., is an organizational psychologist who has spent the last 40 years creating healthy, innovative, and productive work environments in over 200 organizations worldwide. The purpose of his work is to re-examine, redefine, and reform how we look at the meaning of community, leadership, and wellness in corporate culture.
Rick has practiced qigong for 20 years and has studied in China with Chi-Lel/Zhineng Qigong master Luke Chan. He has been reading esoteric literature his whole life and began writing this blog to share some key insights on topics like spiritual wellness, leadership development, and culture change. Rick has been married for 47 years, has two children, two grandchildren, and splits his time between San Diego and Traverse City.
Dr. Bellingham has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed publications, and has written 16 books on spiritual development, leadership development, culture change, organizational health, wellness, and parenting, including the following titles:
- Perspectives and Possibilities: Riffs and Rants from a Vietnam Vet Turned Octogenarian, 2015
- Being at Home in the Universe
- The Fables of Boris: Raising Healthy Children
- Creating Organizational Soul
- The Consciousness Solution
- The Complete Guide to Wellness (with co-author Dr. Barry Cohen)
- Leadership Lexicon
- Ethical Leadership, 2nd Ed. (available on Amazon and at HRD Press)
- Corporate Culture Change (Amazon, HRD Press)
- HR Optimization (Amazon, HRD Press)
- Spiritual Leadership (with co-author Julie Meek)
- Getting People and Culture Right in Mergers and Acquisitions
- The Manager’s Pocket Guide to Virtual Teams (Amazon, HRD Press)
- Corporate Culture Sourcebook
- Corporate Wellness Sourcebook
- Leadership Myths and Realities (with co-author Dr. Barry Cohen)
- Designing Effective Health Promotion Programs: The 20 Skills for Success (with co-author Mark Tager)
Rick,
I am so enjoying your blog and reading about all of your insights and accomplishments! Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
Sarah
Oh Sarah, you are such a dear person. Thanks for reading the blog. It means a lot to me.
Rick
Dear Rick,
I cheer you, your posts, your astounding life long achievements, and now this latest post: “Creating Organizational Soul,” sharpens a question I’ve had since the beginning: “How best to guide and encourage you from the pinnacle you’ve reached to have the most impact now possible for your next, world changing contribution?” I’ve heard you list your “passion projects,” all wonderful. I applaud all that too. But you are a national treasure, as is clear from the brief account you give in this post of a few wide ranging, in the trenches experiences in your long, “been there, done that” history. Let me day dream: you identify a not too large number of your biggest fans, among the heaviest hitters of organizations you’ve helped. We set up first an email list to raise this question, “how best to set Rick Bellingham up as an inspiring leader of ‘Creating Organizational Soul’ in the 21st century,” or something like that. And coax the exchange in the direction of action steps–fund raising to endow a position somewhere, lobbying to place you in some organizational position or other, lay out a program for to launch not just your book but some kind of pilot where you clone ‘Rick Bellinghams next generation,’ or whatever else folks who know your work first hand deem right. It’s fine that you write, opine, and now publish on this blog. But you’ve spent your life in trenches, you know what goes on there as few do, and your incisive gifts need to get delivered to those trenches so they matter more than ever. Or something. In any event, this is how you move me.
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