About Fran Kick

M.A. Educational Psychology, CSP®

FRAN KICK, M.A. Educational Psychology, CSP, Author, Leadership Consultant, Strategic Advisor, and Professional Speaker, works with corporate and educational organizations that want to develop better leadership and smarter followership for faster long-term results.

Fran Kick inspires organizations and people to KICK IT IN and TAKE THE LEAD with his dynamic, exciting, and inspiring self-motivational personal leadership presentations. Fran Kick is a Certified Speaking Professional™ who has presented corporate and educational convention and conference keynotes, breakout sessions, in-service clinics, workshop programs, and retreats in all 50 U.S. states as well as 6 Canadian Provinces to audiences of 40 to 10,800 participants. Fran is equally skilled at on-screen presenting, producing, and video editing, having presented and produced hundreds of live virtual presentations, 14 DVD training programs, plus 54 LMS VOD video lessons.

As an author, Fran Kick’s research and writing skills produced 6 published books, 41 journal and industry magazine articles, plus 9 train-the-trainer facilitator guides.

Fran has a proven track record of bringing people and ideas together using research-informed strategies with a real-world pragmatic approach. Combining his educational teaching and clinical psychology backgrounds with a people-first process, Fran Kick brings brainstorming and idea implementation to life with every educational and corporate consulting and publishing project.

Fran Kick is the company owner and founder of Instruction & Design Concepts, a sole-proprietorship with 34 consecutive, net-profitable, zero-debt years of business serving 1,000+ domestic and international organizations—including Procter & Gamble, the U.S. Army, the New York State Department of Labor, and the Ohio Department of Education. Instruction & Design Concepts earned and maintained a 90% client retention rate, with the top 7 revenue-generating clients renewing for more than 10 consecutive years. He and his wife Judy Kick develop, design, and deliver both corporate consulting projects and educational leadership consulting, curriculum, programs, presentations, products, published books, training games, and marketing materials.

Fran Kick has a B.A. in Education and a M.A. in Educational Psychology.

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“Fran Kick is an exciting speaker and trainer. He utilizes his energy in such a positive way to drive home points of why each employee is a vital part of our team. We hired Fran to be our keynote speaker for our annual company meeting and, WOW, we were not disappointed! Fran made it a point to understand the goals of our organization and crafted an engaging and thought-provoking session. I highly recommend hiring Fran Kick for your event!”

Christie Rogers, Director of Training

Oberer Management Services

“Your message and delivery style are both outstanding and I know you are making a positive impact on my organization. In my almost ten years with Procter & Gamble, your seminar was one of the two best training presentations I have attended. I’ve already observed small but significant changes in both attitude and productivity in individual members.”

Nancy Beahm, Operations Manager

Hotel/Restaurant Division (Commercial Service Products Group)
Procter & Gamble

“Fran Kick is magical in his connection to an audience! Whether they are students, or whether they are experienced working professionals, he captures their minds and hearts from the first seconds of his time with them.”

T. Scott Graham, Ph.D., Lt Col (USAF Retired)

Assistant Professor of Clinical Practice of Leadership

“...there was a special need to energize and focus employees in a new way. Fran's work immediately came to mind. His rapid response and thorough planning allowed him to know the company and its goals so that he fit into the meeting as though he had been part of the initiative planning from the beginning. And company members loved him and the varied and meaningful activities he directed!”

Camile Mortimore, Ph.D.

Merge Technologies, Inc.

“It was a pleasure as always to work with such a professional as yourself. I learn so much each time I hear your presentations. I look forward to working with you more next year and in the years to come. You are an amazing person. I am blessed to have met you. Thanks for all you do for children and adults.”

Val Anderson, IOM, Director of Operations

Center for Fine Arts Education Inc.

“It was great having you ‘Kick It In’ at our annual supervisory seminar at Cedar Point! Our supervisors still talk about the large group exercise they participated in! When I ask them what the purpose was, they can still tell me it was about internal drive and ‘putting more into it to get more out of it.’ Your enthusiasm and simple phrases were easy to remember and use after classes had ended. Your workbooks helped us to re-emphasize the leadership topics in our seasonal training in July.”

Eileen Borchardt, Director of Organizational Development & Training

Cedar Point Amusement Park

“Your session was extremely well received and I know the membership appreciated your enthusiasm, not to mention your potent message. The research you conducted on our industry gave you instant credibility. It spoke volumes of your commitment to excellence and integrity.”

Richard Rejino, President

Retail Print Music Dealers Association

“We received LOTS of positive feedback regarding your program. It really set the right tone for the meeting. With over 200 participants, who only meet together once a year, your enthusiastic and engaging approach quickly brought everyone together—interacting with each other and sharing ideas. All of the ideas shared during your session have lived on in our organization thanks to your creative prioritizing methodology. Even now, three months after our annual off-site meeting, members of our leadership team are still citing the enduring ideas, examples and insight from your presentation.”

J. Michelle Brockman

Senior Medical Science Director

“Fran is easy to work with, flexible, and well prepared. He not only talks leadership and motivation, he walks the talk.”

Russ Simon, Senior Policy Associate, New York Association of Training and Employment Professionals, Inc.

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