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Palm’s Up Leadership with Rich Plumery
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- Tim Stating the Obvious
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- May 1, 2026
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- 2178
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Summary
In this conversation, Palm’s Up Leadership with Rich Plumery, Rich Plumery shares his journey from being a lost kid to becoming a successful leader. He discusses the importance of mentorship, the principles of servant leadership, and how to engage teams effectively. Rich emphasizes the need for humility in leadership and the significance of transferring wisdom to future leaders. He also highlights the role of parents in fostering servant leadership in their children, advocating for a collaborative and supportive approach in both professional and personal settings. Rich Plumery bio: As the Senior Vice President of Project Delivery for AECOM, the world’s largest andmost admired architecture, engineering, and design firm, Rich leads project delivery forAECOM’s most significant and critical business—their Americas business with over50,00 projects delivered per year. Rich Plumery is now the author of Palms Up Leadership: Developing Our FutureLeaders, which discusses how his unique experiences have shaped his new approachto servant leadership. His Enable, Engage, and Embrace approach offers methods foraddressing many of the current challenges in today’s workplace, including dealing withthe loss of wisdom due to a rapidly retiring workforce and the disruption caused byemerging AI technologies. Rich’s journey included growing and selling multiple businesses, including a successfultactical supply company in partnership with elite members of SEAL Team Six and RedCell, as well as a sports performance coaching business that served hundreds ofprofessional athletes across the NFL, NHL, MLB, and MLS. His center accommodatedthe world-famous Greg Roskopf’s first Muscle Activation Techniques clinic.www.muscleactivation.com Connect with Rich Plumery: website: www.palmsupleader.com Book:…