Jan 13 2025
Rich Nichols is an attorney and keynote speaker with 35 years of experience in the business of Sports, Politics, Finance, Venture Capital, Technology and Reputation Risk & Crisis Management.
Rich Nichols received his A.B. from Dartmouth, a Master’s Degree from the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.
He is also a member of the State Bar of California and the State Bar of Texas.
Rich is a highly sought-after keynote speaker who delivers actionable knowledge gained from his multitude of high-stakes, pressure-packed, real-world experiences.
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Rich Nichols provides a broad array of discreet, sophisticated, strategic Reputation Risk/Crisis Management & Communications professional services to a diverse client base that includes, but is not limited to, professional athletes, entertainers, corporate executives, companies, financial institutions, public agencies, and school districts.
Typically, Rich’s clients are embroiled in high-profile, real-time, mainstream and social media-driven, “bet-the-farm” crises. If these crises are not managed and navigated properly in “real-time”, valuable brands and reputations will be extinguished.
Unlike crisis communications public relations firms, Rich Nichols’ strategic crisis management and communications advice and counsel comes with the attorney-client privilege.
Rich Nichols also has extensive active, “on-air” media experience. He has appeared on CBS 60-Minutes, ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today Show, ESPN, CNN and notably, assisted famed Academy Award Nominated director John Singleton in development of Marion Jones: Press Pause, an episode in the inaugural episodes of ESPN’s Peabody Award winning “30 for 30” film series.
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Negotiation is about one thing. Winning. How do you define winning in a negotiation? Getting what you want.
Each of us are involved in some kind of negotiation every day. Not only in your profession, but in your general life.
In Negotiations: No Filler, Rich Nichols gives the 5 essentials of negotiations:
Rich Nichols distills his 35 years of experience in Sports, Law, Reputation Risk and
Crisis Management & Communications, Politics, Venture Capital, and Finance into his transformative presentation.
“Until you negotiate something that really matters and is of value, you don’t know what you’re talking about.” – Rich Nichols
Leadership is Personal – Leadership Demands Commitment – Leadership Will Exact a Cost.
Leaders should be aware that the “No Pain, No Gain” mantra of leadership is real…and gratifying.
Leadership is exhilarating!
But, as Rich Nichols recounts his leadership experiences, which include being profoundly unaware of the physical and psychological “wear and tear” that the constant and intense demands leadership can produce, Rich just wants to make leaders aware that there is a personal cost leaders will endure, but, without hesitation, pay to be a leader.
Life is either a dreamy adventure, or a static journey… You get to decide.
People need to like what they do. But doing what you like comes with risk.
COVID caused people to be introspective. Blitheful introspection has created disruption in our standard business practices, and inspired people to seriously consider leaving the comforts of the predictable corporate world to pursue their personal dreamy adventure.
In an endless pursuit of his dreams, Rich Nichols has a passion for the business of sports, politics, law, finance, technology, crisis management, media and communications. After stints in Big Law, government, politics, sports and Silicon Valley, Rich decided to create his career by combining all of his dreamy professional adventures and pursuing them all! He’s been “up” and “down” the road to success and financial disaster five times. “Necessity became the mother of Reinvention” and starting over from square one –five times–with a family to support, taught him the value of mentors, relationships, family, perseverance and resilience.
“With every entrepreneurial opportunity you pursue, even if you do not achieve your primary objective, you will get something valuable from it. But you have to be willing to take calculated risks, and a lot of people don’t want to take any risks.” – Rich Nichols
In the few years that I’ve known Rich, his ability to speak truth to power, be it in his capacity as a member of the Board of Trustees of the UC Hastings Foundation, or providing advice and sage counsel in his Convocation address to the first-year law students has been astonishing, but very much needed and welcomed by the Hastings community. – Chancellor David Faigman, Chancellor & Dean, UC Hastings College of the Law
I’ve known Rich for more than a decade and not until he agreed to speak as a guest on my “live” podcast did I learn that he has deep personal relationships with and has represented some of the GOAT’s in sports, but more importantly, understands how they did not allow their own insecurities upend their quest for greatness! – Wynn Silberman, Sports Lawyer
