About

Richard coaches individuals and teams to get practical results for more inspirational leadership, more effective market differentiation and deeper personal fulfilment. He is a consultant at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, a Faculty Associate of the Møller Institute at the University of Cambridge, an Advisory Board member of Imperial College’s MBA programme, and a teaching Faculty Member of Meyler Campbell, delivering executive coach training and leadership development.

Based in London, he previously spent over 10 years living and working in New York, Paris and Brussels. Drawing on his own frontline experience as a global leader and local manager, he gets straight to the heart of his clients’ needs and drivers, and then partners with them to develop pragmatic strategies that work.

Described in the trade press as “a corporate heavyweight”, Richard’s many leadership roles include:

• serving on the Global Board of the world’s largest law firm as Global Vice Chair and Global Client Partner, responsible for the global client and markets strategy for a $2.5bn business located in 82 countries worldwide;
• founding and general management of several international offices;
• general management of a multi-national M&A division.

He is deeply committed to diversity and inclusion in terms of gender, ethnicity, and social mobility, with a keen interest in ensuring cognitive diversity too, not only in the boardroom but at the roots of the business, influencing recruitment policy and leadership development. He is a mentor for the 30% Club (promoting women in FTSE 250 board rooms) and proud to have worked in a business that was in the Stonewall 100 for four consecutive years.