1968-1973, Regional Director, Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics.

1973-1990, Self-employed Corporate Training consultant.

A 1979 multi-media presentation to the national convention of movie theatre owners and operators garnered a review in Daily Variety, enthusing that "anyone can push back his limitations" using such methods. George Burns was honored as "Entertainer of the Century", and Rick was on the bill next.

Wrote, produced and narrated recruiting and internal training videotapes for clients from Sprint to JD Reece Realtors.

Recurring memory expert on KMBC TV's morning show with Olivia Dorsey. Guest appearances on KCTV and KSHB. Featured in a WDAF-TV's Hometown People.

1974-1988 Her Majesty's Voice
Wrote, produced, and narrated over 500 one-hour weekly FM radio programs, including commercials for a variety of advertisers.

1988-1993 Voiceprint Records and Tours
As a co-founder, his responsibilities included creating press releases, bios, catalogs, contracts, CD labels & covers, product one-sheets, tour updates, and newsletters.

In 1993, the label was stolen from him and went on to become the largest independent record label in England (18$M sales in 2001.)

Subject of a feature on KCPT-TV's Marquee Magazine .

Subject of a Kansas City Star Magazine feature, 1994.

After the music business was gone, he tried re-kindling his dormant seminar career by writing a book based on the seminars. Be Your Own Expert! remains unpublished. Upon completion of that self-help book devoted to "Learning How To Learn," it was expanded into...

Dr. Brain's Train, an exciting, interactive education adventure Sony once declared was "too big" for them, and which remains unproduced.

Since his ruination in the record business, he's pursued the vicious cycle of driving himself crazy, and writing himself sane again.

WRITING:

• More Than One Way To Scatter Kin
  An original episode intended for HBO's series Dream On.
• Talkin' Brought Me Here
  An original episode for HBO's series, Tales From The Crypt
• Man of the Century
  A privately commissioned bio of Herbert Swarthout, founder of the Uniformed Services Benefit Association (USBA).
• Relative Truth
  An original screenplay about stolen identity and serial suicide.
• Revealing Absences
  An original screenplay in which Congress tries to determine if workers were knowingly adding THC to the raspberry extract of America's favorite soft drink, The Grape Gaspy.
• Time Drifts
  An original screenplay about the ramifications of discovering that all space is living history.
• My Mother Must Never Know
  An after-school special adapted from the German, Meine Mutter darf es nie erfahren, by Johannes Mario Simmel, Germany's top-selling author since WWII. A 12-year-old tries to keep his failing grades from his ailing mother.
• Dying For Work
  Adapted from Simmel's novel, Doch mit den Clowns kamen die Tränen, this is the script for an eight-hour mini-series described as "War and Peace meets Tom Clancy and Stephen King in the genetic research labs of Europe."
• Mischa's Calling
  A screenplay adapted from Simmel's Auch wenn ich lachen, muß ich weinen. An East German plumber is mistaken for a defecting Soviet atomic physicist.
• Love is the Last Bridge
  A literal translation of the newest Simmel novel, 1999's Liebe ist die letzte Brücke about nasty computer viruses, terrorism over the internet, civil war in the Congo, and love in Geneva, Switzerland.

He has also penned articles appearing in diverse publications, from The Kansas City Business Journal to national trade journals, and internationally in music circles.