Richard has amassed a significant record of achievement over his 30 years in Financial Services dedicating his career to sales management, leadership development, and coaching to empower leaders. Since serving in the Parachute Regiment within the British Army, which embedded his drive, discipline, and ability to execute, he has built a career path from being a top advisor to clients to being an award-winning sales manager at the Prudential. Leading to managing multiple sales teams and several senior positions at HSBC including Head of UK High Net Worth Banking.
Richard’s international experience spans over 16 markets covering the US, South America, Europe, Middle East, India, and Asia. This included serving as the Global Head of Sales Management at HSBC, developing thousands of leaders while driving wealth management, customer acquisition, initiating strategic change, and improving customer experience.
Richard was also responsible for pioneering and creating the Global Corporate Employee banking collaboration building a business consisting of over a million customers generating $1B revenue globally. This ignited Richard’s passion for Wellbeing leading to the creation of a global well-being program across markets, advancing into the development and deployment of Employee Engagement programs.
What sets Richard apart from the pack is his authentic commitment to understand organizational culture in turn driving sustainable active growth with the care and passion to help individuals as well as organizations to achieve beyond their potential.
Richard’s interpersonal communication skills disarm and delight clients with his heightened ability to build trust through creating productive sustainable working relationships that cut through the noise.
Being an established authentic event speaker Richard delivers leadership talks and learning programs with a strong passion for embedding inspirational value-based experiences to drive high-performing results.
Richard’s proven track record helps teams and businesses with expert skilled advice in Leadership, Executive Consulting, Business Planning, Performance Development, Coaching, Learning Development, Sales Management, and Team Building experiences.
Richard resides in the UK in Hampshire and has four adult children. His interests include travel & culture, music, literature, and golf (playing off a handicap of six).
Dr. Ho has over two decades of experience as an accomplished international business manager, specializing in Asian markets. His expertise spans education, finance, consulting, and management, with a track record in strategy development and leading high-performing teams. Fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese, he excels in international relations, project management, and investment management.
With a keen understanding of market trends, Dr. Ho optimizes performance and generates profits through financial management and strategic design. He managed and developed portfolio managers, achieving exceptional returns by devising ESG investment strategies and enhancing portfolio diversification. Dr. Ho’s involvement in a U.S. $1 billion project yielded outstanding results, exceeding a 2,000% return on investment within a few years.
Furthermore, he facilitated global expansion for companies by driving remarkable sales growth in Asia through effective product management, distribution channels, and marketing initiatives. His contributions extend to high-level public relations projects involving one of the largest foreign investments in South Korea’s financial industry.
Nikki is a global leader of Customer centricity and insight programs with a proven track record of delivering transformational customer change within a global framework.
With over 30 years experience with financial services primarily American Express and HSBC both globally and within the UK, Nikki knows that customer and colleague engagement is key to organisational success.
Operating in a highly regulated technical and complex environment Nikki has diverse experience spanning Commercial, Wealth and Personal Banking which has allowed to take a single view of the customer to drive a Customer driven strategy. With expertise in proposition development, Customer metrics and brand analytics as well as leading an award winning Customer research strategy.
NIkki had led and coached dynamic teams and individuals across the world and has always been an advocate on sharing her experience and on a voluntary basis she works with young people starting out in life through Inspiring the future where she is an accredited coach and mentor as well as holding the role as Employability and Progression Mentor for the Princes Trust. She has a lifelong passion for working with individuals to unlock their potential by recognising their talents and working together to develop them.
Home is on the South coast where Nikki lives with her husband of 28 years and together they have a son and a very old rescue dog Roxy. Nikki loves the outdoors, pilates and walking and with the beach just on her doorstep she makes the most of the outdoors rain or shine.
Jon has spent almost 30 years in leadership roles within Financial Services and has a track record of consistently delivering significant, long-lasting, operational, cultural and strategic transformation.
Having studied European business in both France and the UK, Jon joined the HSBC Group. His career has seen him lead teams in Retail banking, Commercial banking and Audit, with the most significant portion of his C-suite career being in Private Banking.
Jon has 15 years’ experience as a COO (both traditional scope and Front Office COO roles), Deputy/Interim CEO, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Control Office leader. These roles have been in both small and medium sized entities, and in regional and global teams, within a highly complex, matrix environment. He is known for his ability to get the most out of his teams, gain the confidence of a wide range of stakeholders and work across multiple territories and cultures. Much of Jon’s senior career has been in French speaking Europe.
Jon’s has a reputation as someone who can simplify seemingly complex situations, and then identify and deliver pragmatic, workable solutions. His significant Transformation leadership experience includes:
Jon is known for being customer focussed. He is proactive, positive and solution focussed and has developed a broad knowledge base by repeatedly stepping in to fill leadership gaps, whether short or long term. He also spent 18 months as HSBC Retail & Wealth’s Global Lead for Gender Representation.
Jon resides in South Oxfordshire with his family. He is a fluent French speaker, and when he hasn’t been working in Francophone countries, he has frequently holidayed in them. His other interests include choral singing, where he is an active member of the National Youth Choir Alumni, field hockey, where he is Chair of his local club, and golf.
Georgie is a Customer Experience practitioner and a value-driven leader with over 27 years of experience of leading in Sales and Service and Change Management globally for an international bank – more recently specializing in helping organizations with their customer experience strategy and customer journey management (CJM). In her last role as a global Customer Experience manager, and with a natural talent to think customer and people first, Georgie designed and pioneered Customer Journey Management across HSBC globally in Asia, Europe, and the Americas – working collaboratively with international clients to remove customer pain points, streamline customer journeys, reduced cost and increased customer advocacy.
Georgie’s best advice is “to achieve your goal you must first enable others to achieve theirs”, whether that’s your customers or your people. With a passion to help clients help themselves, and as well as co-creating & facilitating CJM workshops, Georgie trains businesses with a simple methodology that puts you in your customer’s shoes to drive those all-important business decisions with both head and heart!
Her compassion to help others extends to her home life in the UK, volunteering to help the vulnerable and elderly and raising money for the Alzheimer’s Society. Being Mum to daughter Niamh, many ‘4’ legged friends, and partner to Gary, Georgie would also love to own an animal rescue farm one day – preferable for Donkeys, and by the coast due to her fascination with the unexpected beauty of the aquatic world and scuba diving shipwrecks!
