Dr Rich Allen is an innovative and powerful master trainer and educational psychologist from the United States. Dr Rich Allen visits New Zealand twice a year, usually in April and October, presenting public courses – The Power to Train and one-day expander programmes for graduates of his flagship programme. He has been coming to New Zealand for over 10 years, and has a well-established reputation here.

Dr Rich Allen

He also works directly with New Zealand organisations such as Kiwibank, Air New Zealand, The Learning Wave and Jade Corp to improve the presentation impact and training effectiveness of their staff.

Dr Rich Allen graduated from Arizona State University in 1998 with a Ph.D. His cognitive learning theory research provided understanding on how the brain receives, processes, stores and recalls information.

His career began in Hawaii teaching at one of the top five US Prep schools. For the past fourteen years he has been involved in developing and leading corporate and professional development programmes. Rich has led top management teams of well-known companies such as Dupont, AT&T, General Motors, IBM and Porsche in motivational and values and vision seminars.

He also held a position at ‘Super Camp’ as the Director and Lead Facilitator for their teenage Accelerated Learning Program. This included communication, team building and relationship skills. The programme was so successful that it was presented as a first in Moscow, Singapore and Hong Kong.

In 1990 Rich founded Impact Learning, Inc. His programmes have met with international success throughout United States, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, England, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil.

Rich's talents do not stop with just training - he has written two books - Impact Teaching and TrainSmart. In addition he is an accomplished composer with two albums of songs and is currently working on a third.