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Rick Smith is the author of "The Leap: How 3 Simple Changes Can Propel Your Career from Good to Great" and the author of the blog www.RickSmith.me. He is the co-author of the Wall Street Journal and Business Week bestseller "The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers," which has been sold into 13 languages.

Rick is the creator of the "Primary Color Assessment," for personal evaluations, available through his blog.

He is the founding CEO of World 50 and Rick has been a featured spotlighted by CNN, Time, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Sirius Satellite Radio, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Forbes, Fortune and Chief Executive.

Rick has worked with several well known business and cultural icons, including: Bono, Alan Greenspan, Robert Redford, Francis Ford Coppola, Magic Johnson, Lance Armstrong, Larry Bossidy, Martha Stewart, Jon Stewart, Norman Schwarzkopf, Senators Robert Dole and George Mictchell, Steven Colbert, Russell Simmons, and Sir John Major.

A serial entrepreneur, he is currently working on the launch of several new companies. Rick currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and three children.