RICK DAVIS, an Alpine Link Corporation partner, is growth acceleration leader for The Athens Team. He has 25+ years of experience in professional services designing and implementing innovative sales and marketing approaches. The bulk of his career has been spent with Ernst & Young where he played a key role in leading the culture change that enabled E&Y to strengthen relationships, grow revenues and dominate competing firms. Since leaving E&Y, Rick has achieved recognition as a thought leader in growth strategy development, sales process innovation, and pursuit team coaching. He has teamed with leading professional services firms around the world to enhance their competitive strengths.
Rick is continually called upon by industry leaders to bring his professional experience and high energy style to help them grow their businesses. He works with teams and individuals, fully investing in their professional success. His key accomplishments include facilitating hundreds of workshops with account leaders around the world, delivering numerous keynote addresses, facilitating retreats at a number of large law firms and professional services firms, developing an innovative, multi-stage process for coaching and training associates in business development, coaching winning pursuit teams to multi-million dollar deals and developing proven sales approaches for growing client engagements.