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Richard Clarke

Richard has 30 years of experience as a management consultant, operations head, and leadership coach, driving change across industries including financial services, telecommunications, and government in organisations of all sizes.

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30+ years
experience

Master’s degree in Coaching Psychology

Professional Certified Coach

Assessment-Accredited Coach

Experience and background

Richard brings three decades of business experience as a management consultant, Head of Operations and leadership coach. Working across a breadth of industries including financial services, telecommunications, retail, government and information technology, Richard has been an enabler of change at individual, group and organisational levels across global corporations to small private businesses.

As a human performance consultant with Accenture, he helped many client organisations to enable change associated with large scale business and IT transformations. He established the Accenture Learning Outsourcing business in Australia and managed end-to-end training operations for Telstra for five years. He was also a senior partner with accounting firm Findex/Crowe Horwath.

Richard also has experience running businesses as Chief Operating Officer for IT/SaaS and Leadership Development companies. He has managed all aspects of these businesses including finance, HR, customer services and product development.

Richard's approach

As a leadership coach, Richard has a passion for helping people find purpose and perspective. He is ideally suited to work with leaders and teams who are seeking to increase the meaning in work and life. He brings a personalised and collaborative approach to coaching which seeks to empower individuals and teams with autonomy for their own development.

Qualifications and memberships

  • Master’s degree in Coaching Psychology from Sydney University
  • Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Psychology and Education.
  • Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation and holds current accreditations in The Leadership Circle 360, Hogan Personality Assessments, Global Leadership Wellbeing Survey and Mental Health First Aid Certificate.

Personal insights

Richard is Treasurer and Non-Executive Director with Lou’s Place, a daytime drop in refuge serving women across the greater Sydney area. Each year, staff at Lou’s Place assist over 6,000 women visiting the service with housing referrals, counselling, advocacy, legal advice, addiction, domestic violence and mental health issues.

Richard is married with three sons in their twenties and enjoys sailing, stand up paddle boarding, soccer and swimming.

What our clients say

“Working with Richard over the last 18 months has been enormously beneficial for me as a leader. From the initial assessment of my professional and personal capabilities and challenges, we systematically evaluated every opportunity, as it presented itself. I learnt to not sweat the small stuff and get bogged down in the weeds but to truly approach each situation strategically and courageously. Richard created a safe and comfortable environment where I was able to share my insecurities and vulnerabilities and subsequently gave me the confidence, tools and resources to step up to the challenge. Pleasingly my Executive Director and my team noticed the positive difference in my approach which is now more collegiate, communicative and less pressured. A win for all.”

General Manager Tourism Australia

“My discussions with Richard have been very enjoyable and fruitful. His calm demeanour and ability to listen and probe the right areas has resulted in a very productive set of sessions over 3 months. During this time he has helped me through a promotion process and we have set up plans to progress my career forward. I have been able to really understand my strengths and areas of focus better and have an actionable framework and plan to work through. I would highly recommend Richard for great coaching support.”

Director KPMG

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