Discover Your Path to Purpose
From Burnout to Balance: Redefine What Success Means to You
Unlock your potential with Rick Gabrielsen, where heartfelt guidance meets strategic insight. Explore how Rick’s unique blend of life coaching and hospitality consulting can elevate your personal and professional journey.
Coaching for Life, Leadership & Legacy
SimplyRick offers a range of services designed to empower individuals and organizations. Whether you’re seeking personal growth or professional development, Rick provides tailored solutions to meet your needs.
Life Coaching
Hospitality Consulting
Podcast & Blog
Speaking Engagements
The Mission
Empowering Lives, Inspiring Change
To empower individuals and organizations through heartfelt coaching, purposeful leadership, and meaningful conversations—fostering resilience, compassion, and clarity in life and business.
Guided by Core Values
Rick’s work is grounded in a set of core values that shape every interaction and decision. He embraces the spirit of Aloha, fostering love and kindness in all relationships. Authenticity is at the heart of his approach, encouraging everyone to show up as their true selves. Service remains a cornerstone, inspired by Rick’s extensive hospitality background, where giving generously is paramount. He is a champion of courage, advocating for mental health and engaging in meaningful conversations. He prioritizes connection, building bridges that unite people, teams, and their shared purposes.
Meet Rick Gabrielsen
A Legacy of Hospitality, A Mission of Hope
Vision for Authentic Leadership
Leading with Empathy and Integrity
Rick envisions a world where leaders embrace their true selves, fostering environments of trust and understanding. By prioritizing authenticity and empathy, Rick believes that leaders can inspire genuine connections and create a supportive community where everyone thrives. His vision is to guide individuals to lead with heart, ensuring that no one faces challenges alone.
I first met Rick during my earlier career with Hilton, and I’ve always respected his expertise and leadership. Working with him again — this time as my professional coach — has been eye-opening, offering fresh perspectives and uncovering opportunities for growth I hadn’t considered before. He has a remarkable ability to focus on my specific needs without ever making me feel pushed in a certain direction, allowing me to arrive at my own solutions with his guidance and support. Each session felt organic and conversational, but looking back, I now see how intentionally structured they were — a design that directly targeted the areas I most needed to develop and helped me make real progress. I’ve even found myself applying the same techniques Rick used with me to my own direct reports, and I’m already seeing the benefit in my team’s improved performance. Simply put, Rick makes leadership growth feel natural, yet delivers results that speak for themselves.
Notes & Insights
Hospitality Basics
I have witnessed the basics of hospitality getting lost. I beg that we all go back to the old school of training…showing, doing and role playing for the desired result. The results in select service to luxury will pay dividend$!
Growth
Improvement can be extremely small or monumental. As a child the learnings are frequent, but lost with age when they become infrequent. It is human to progress, but wise to learn daily. Even when you fall on your face, you are moving forward.
Being Present
Coaching is passion of providing to others those learned experiences of time. Listening is a test of our magical motor skills to not speak. A combination is called action to change and benefit ones self in growth.