Rita is available to work both in-person and virtually.
The President of Top Tier Leadership is an award-winning speaker and transformational leader with a big heart and a long resume.
Rita combines deep experience and delightful charm, but they’re not what set her apart. It’s that she doesn’t just promise high-impact results – she delivers!
As a seasoned leadership consultant, business coach and high-content motivational speaker, she prides herself on being a master communicator and the designer of award-winning training programs.
Her workshops, keynote addresses and interactive C-level retreats are arranged to spur engagement, drive ambition and ignite collaboration.
She builds on clients’ motivation, talent and drive to develop highly-effective employees, executives and teams.
She views today’s rapidly-changing workplace not as an array of problems to be solved – a generational shift, a need for diversity, employee engagement – but as a challenge demanding new solutions, and she loves challenges.
Listeners are captivated and amused by her tales of growing up with 10 siblings, but there are lessons among the laughter.
Her large household, which ranged from grandmother to baby brother, mirrored today’s multiple-generation workplace, and those deeply-personal experiences are what convinced her to pursue a career in people management.
Her optimism delights and inspires, encouraging life changes that boost happiness and achievement.
Heads nod at her conviction that traditions can be crucial in business as well as families in cementing those changes.
Florida’s governor appointed her to the Florida Commission on Human Relations and the Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida.
Rita received the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Awards for HR Excellence from the Human Resources Association of Palm Beach County and South Florida Business and Wealth magazine.
The South Florida Business Journal called her one of the top HR professionals in Florida.
She served as Chair in 2020.
She served as Chair of Discover the Palm Beaches, the county official destination marketing organization. Tourism generates approximately $7 billion to the local economy.
Leadership Palm Beach County
Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation
South Florida Business and Wealth
First to receive
Florida Speakers Association
First to receive
Reappointed by CFO Patronis for an additional 4 years.
In 2020, she served as Chair.
Women Who Successfully Use the Web/Technology and Give Back to Their Communities.
Currently serve as chair.
First Hispanic woman chair
HR Association of Palm Beach County
First to receive
Executive Women of the Palm Beaches – Private Sector
Focused on encouraging businesses to hire individuals with disabilities.
Top award for all HR professionals in Florida.
Reappointed for an additional 4 years and served as chair for six of the eight years.
Rita has hands-on experience. For 23 years, she held leadership positions in a Fortune 500 company.
Today she taps into four decades of working with individuals, corporate and global companies, public-sector organizations, and associations.
It’s a breadth of knowledge that helps to ensure success.
Life coach, published author, consultant, human resources authority, winner of professional awards and appointments to important state and local bodies, and more.
She’s spoken to audiences of every size throughout the world with the kind of crystal clarity that good communication demands.
Rita’s authentic enthusiasm and devotion to improving lives endear her to all who meet her.