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Richard leverages his extensive executive and coaching experience to help leaders reach their full potential, combining insights from his global roles in banking and professional services with certified coaching expertise.
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Richard supports leaders in taking charge of their futures and fulfilling their true potential – thereby enriching their own lives as well as those of others they influence. The value he adds comes through the practical application and combination of his commercial, executive, international and coaching experiences.
Richard’s career in investment banking, private banking, financial and professional services has included involvement with start-ups through to management of complex, highly regulated, multi-jurisdictional businesses. His CEO and Board experiences in South Africa, Australia, the UK and New Zealand have given him a unique understanding of what it takes to adapt to new environments, successfully engage across diverse cultures and build sustainable businesses.
After relocating from the UK Richard gained accreditation as a certified international coach with the International Coaching Community in 2014 and as a Certified International Team Coach in 2017. His business experience combined with a strong theoretical and practical understanding of coaching provides Richard with the insights to support senior leaders who are under pressure to deliver effective leadership in an increasingly complex environment.
Richard’s work is typically with existing or aspiring leaders who have an identified challenge or development need; been recently promoted; taken on new responsibilities; or are contemplating career change. Richard’s experience is that one-to-one coaching supports clients in achieving congruence between their personal and business objectives. His work with leadership teams, whose performance is dependent on successfully combining different skills, experiences and personalities, is informed by his commercial experience and the knowledge that organisations prosper when they are led by high-performing teams.
Throughout his executive career, Richard has been involved in voluntary coaching and mentoring programs that have given him insight into the motivators of diverse groups of individuals and how to be an effective contributor to their successes. His involvement in the voluntary sector has continued in New Zealand, working with NZ Business Mentors, Citizens Advice Bureau and Variety – the NZ children’s charity, where he is currently President having served on the Board since 2013.
Richard’s work is typically with existing or aspiring leaders who have an identified challenge or development need; been recently promoted; taken on new responsibilities; or are contemplating career change. Richard’s experience is that one-to-one coaching supports clients in achieving congruence between their personal and business objectives. His work with leadership teams, whose performance is dependent on successfully combining different skills, experiences and personalities, is informed by his commercial experience and the knowledge that organisations prosper when they are led by high-performing teams.
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 swimming.
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