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SMG is Australia’s premier leadership development advisor. Since 1998, we’ve partnered with exceptional talent to elevate leadership skills and unlock organisational potential.
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.
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