Rick Anthony is managing director of THEANTHONYGROUPinc, a full service management consulting firm specializing in business advisory services, organization effectiveness and performance improvement. He has over 35 years of experience as a manager and counselor to senior management. He is an accomplished speaker on managing intellectual capital to accomplish business objectives. He has extensive consulting experience with clients in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Rick’s book, Organizations,People & Effective Communication, is available on Amazon.com.

Rick began his career as a teacher and as a creative writer in advertising and public relations. Prior to THEANTHONYGROUPinc, he had been Chairman and CEO of the Alexander Consulting Group’s U.S. consulting unit, where he established the firm’s Global Organization Effectiveness consulting practice, and Vice President and Principal of Towers Perrin (now Towers Watson), one of the world’s largest human resource management consulting firms.

He is a member of the adjunct faculty at Villanova University where he teaches courses in Organizational and Leadership Communication, Goal Setting, Managing the Multigenerational Workforce and Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship. He has authored chapters in three books in recent years: Aligning Pay and Results, After Sixty: Marketing toBaby Boomers Reaching Their Big Transition Years and Geeks, Geezers and Googlization.

He is an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America; a founding member of the New Product Development Consortium, Inc., New York; co-founder and director of iGrandparents.com, an internet company dedicated to enriching the lives of the nation’s 73 million grandparents and their grandchildren; founder of The Entrepreneurs Network, a group of successful business people focused on starting, buying or turning around companies. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Radnor Studio 21 and hosts two cable television talk shows, The Entrepreneurs Network and 30 Minutes with Rick Anthony. He recently launched an internet radio program titled The Entrepreneurs Network Radio.

Advisory board memberships include GRAND Media, publisher of GRAND Magazine; JobsOver50.com; Omni 2000, an entertainment production company; Villanova University’s HRD graduate program. He is an emeritus member of the board of Murex Investments, a social venture capital fund, and the Walnut Street Theatre, the oldest continuously operating theater in the western hemisphere. He is also a past member the President’s Council of Immaculata University.

He has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Presbyterian Medical Center, the Personnel Committee of Pennsylvania Hospital, the Board of Trustees for the Lay Employees Pension Plan Trust of the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, and the Board of Trustees of St. Francis Country House. He recently served as Executive Director of the Delaware County Community Foundation.

He is the recipient of the Villanova University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2004 Alumni Medallion.

He received an AB from Villanova University, did graduate study at St. Joseph’s University and Temple University, and completed a Harvard Management Program.