Rick Czaplewski founded and serves as the President of No One Walks Alone, which provides negotiation and leadership training to executives and business practitioners. Rick specializes in teaching and simplifying the negotiation skills needed to handle complication sales transactions, adversarial dispute resolution, extensive procurement contracts, and challenging M&A. He has taught hundreds of negotiators in North America and Asia.

Prior to founding No One Walks Alone, Rick served in several leadership roles in the financial, high tech, construction, and water industries. He has worked for KPMG, Hewlett Packard, Siemens, and Xylem and most recently served as Senior Director of Operations.  Rick's teams have saved more than $50 million in negotiated cost savings and dispute cost avoidance.

Rick earned a BBA in Accounting at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire where he was the first person to pass the CPA exam while a student. He earned an MBA from the University of Wisconsin Madison.

Rick is a 28-year, 2x cancer survivor who shares his vulnerable, inspirational story with audiences all over the world. 

Rick wrote the National Indie Excellence Award winning book, Better Dirty Than Done, about his experience with cancer.