Rory Aplanalp

Rory Aplanalp is a leadership and performance speaker who helps individuals and organizations achieve breakthrough results through improved attitudes and intentional daily actions. His career spans franchise ownership, national training leadership, and 14 years as a senior facilitator with Franklin Covey Company, one of the world’s foremost leadership development organizations.

Real-World Business Experience Meets World-Class Training

Aplanalp began his career as an Evans Training Personnel franchise owner before becoming the national training director for all Evans franchises. He then joined Franklin Covey, where he spent over a decade training leaders across industries on the principles of effectiveness, accountability, and personal ownership. That combination of entrepreneurial experience and world-class facilitation gives him a grounded, practical perspective on what actually drives performance improvement.

The Direct Connection Between Mindset and Results

Aplanalp’s message is straightforward: the attitudes people bring to work each day determine outcomes more than circumstances, resources, or strategy. His presentations provide actionable frameworks for building cultures of accountability and ownership. His keynotes deliver practical strategies for connecting mindset to measurable performance improvement, building cultures of accountability and personal ownership, the daily choices that create organizational excellence, and the leadership practices that transform attitudes and drive breakthrough results.

Connections Make the Difference

Real success is not defined by the money you make or the positions you obtain but by the connections shared with those you love and care about.  These persons can include significant others, family members, coworkers, friends, clients and vendors – all who make life precious, fun and sometimes even bearable.

Care Sells- Value-based Selling Skills

A fresh approach to selling that shows the customer you CARE. It has been said, “people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”. Very rarely do we think of that in terms of Sales. In the customer’s mind, there is always the attitude “what’s in it for me?” Rory teaches how to Create A Rich Experience based on the acronym CARE.

Who should attend: Sales professionals who want to improve their sales with a fresh new approach to selling.

How to be Proactive in a Reactive World- The Ultimate Attitude Adjustment

Full of emotion and heart, Rory presents practical wisdom in a lively, humorous and highly interactive keynote address. His masterful use of personal anecdotes will have the audience laughing one moment and deeply moved the next. Packed with ‘take-home’ value, participants leave with renewed determination to face all of life’s professional and personal challenges with positive determination!

Keep the Connection

The long-term success of any organization is built upon relationships…the relationships we have with the people we work with, the customers we serve, and the people we care most about.

You know this, but what are you doing about it?

Learn real, tangible things you can do immediately to connect on a deeper level with others.  Regardless of what industry you are in, occupation or position you hold, you have a unique ability to ‘connect’ in a powerful way starting today!

The Art of Becoming an Authentic Leader

Many analysts and business scholars simultaneously rate leadership as the most sought after elusive quality in business today! Effective leadership largely determines the level to which an organization will rise.  Titles, authority and responsibility can be conferred, but recognition as an authentic leader can only be bestowed by those who choose to follow.

This thought-provoking learning experience introduces participants to the break-through concept of Heart (emotion), Mind (logic) and Body (action) of authentic leadership.  Bottom-line: focus on building people first and the people will build the organization.  Through the use of exercises, real-life business examples and powerful discovery techniques, Rory Aplanalp provides managers with results oriented, tangible actions they can apply immediately to enhance on the job performance and satisfaction in themselves and others.