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).
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!