About Rick & Thriving Audiology
Richard Poage, MBA, created Thriving
Audiology in 2004 to help Audiologists and their teams create a
professional environment for themselves where they can Thrive, not
just survive.
As a business coach Rick has dedicated
the rest of his professional life to helping talented professionals
understand the business, professional relationship, and
organizational issues, required for professional success. He does
this with workshops, seminars, and individual professional coaching.
The first time you performed a hearing
evaluation someone spent time prior to the evaluation explaining the
theory’s you would be using and then talked you through how to
perform the evaluation. Then afterward gave you feedback on your
performance. Business and organization skills are best learned in
the same way, unfortunately many Audiologists have never had anyone
with a real business background actually explain to them how to best
proceed with business decisions. Or explain to them why things they
do work, or don’t work.
Rick has been blessed with a wealth of
experience in his 25+ years of working in professional service
organizations. In addition to owning his own businesses he has
worked with Physicians, Attorneys, Engineers, Audiologists, and
other health care providers. He has worked with publicly traded
companies and one person businesses. In each case was able to
experience, see and understand, what caused organizations to thrive,
or just survive.
Rick graduated from Oregon State
University in 1980 with degrees in Business Administration and
Horticulture. After selling a Florist and Nursery he started Rick
returned to school and completed his Masters in Business
Administration (MBA) in 1985, also at Oregon State University. His
particular interest was and is organizational behavior and design.
Rick has a wife of 30+ years, Diane, who
is dually certified in Speech Language and Audiology. They have two
children, Rochelle age 10 and Nicholas age 8.
Rick is an affiliate member of
AAA
(American Academy of Audiology), and
ADA
(Academy of Doctors of Audiology).
General Information:
www.audiologyblog.com
Facebook:
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