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Richard is one of the few executive coaches to combine more than 30 years of experience in C-suite leadership, including CEO, CFO, COO, and GM roles, with international coaching accreditations that bring both rigour and depth to his work with leaders.
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Richard supports leaders in taking charge of their futures and fulfilling their true potential, enriching both their own lives and those of others they influence. The value he brings comes through the practical application and combination of his commercial, executive, international and coaching experiences.
His career in investment banking, private banking, financial and professional services has spanned start-ups through to the management of complex, highly regulated, multi-jurisdictional businesses. CEO and board roles across South Africa, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia have given him a unique understanding of what it takes to adapt to new environments, successfully engage across diverse cultures and build sustainable businesses.
Accredited as a Certified International Coach (2014) and a Certified International Team Coach (2017), Richard combines his business experience with a strong theoretical and practical understanding of coaching to support senior leaders under pressure, enabling them to deliver effective leadership in increasingly complex environments.
Throughout his executive career, Richard coached and mentored direct reports and coached teams to being high performing, as well as contributing to formal mentoring programs. These experiences have given him invaluable insight into the needs and motivations of diverse individuals and how they can both achieve their personal goals and contribute effectively to organisational success.
Richard works with existing and aspiring leaders who have an identified challenge or development need, have been recently promoted, have taken on new responsibilities, or are contemplating a career change. He has found that one-to-one coaching helps clients achieve alignment between their personal and business objectives.
His work with leadership teams, whose performance depends on successfully combining different skills, experiences, and personalities, is informed by his commercial background and his belief that organisations prosper when led by high-performing teams. Throughout his executive career, Richard has also contributed to voluntary coaching and mentoring programs, which have given him further insight into the motivators of diverse groups of individuals and how to be an effective contributor to their success.
Richard and his family live in Sydney. He is a keen golfer, tennis player and music lover with an (as yet) unfulfilled ambition to be a half-decent pianist.
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