Richard has spent the past 30 years of his career serving as a Human Resources, Talent Acquisition and Operations management leader. Now serving as the Executive Vice President of Warbird’s Transitional Leadership Solutions, Richard advises Healthcare clients on their C-level transitional leadership needs.
• Prior to joining Warbird, Richard served as an HR Director for the Huron Consulting Group and supported the Accounting Advisory practice, which is now Warbird Consulting Partners. Prior to that, he spent five years as a Consultant with a Human Resources professional services firm called Flex HR. In this role, Richard assisted numerous industry-diverse clients with a broad range of HR, talent and leadership needs. As an advisor to Executive Management, Richard guided his clients to recognize the value and realize the tangible benefits of building a strategic HR function and implementing HR best practices across a full spectrum of HR matters
• Prior to his career as an HR Consultant, Richard served as the HR Director for several start-ups and fast paced, rapidly evolving multi-location organizations within the telecommunications, professional services, and manufacturing sectors. In each of these positions he was part of the senior management team, reported to the CEO and implemented innovative ideas and solutions designed to enhance organizational effectiveness.
• Throughout his career, Richard has focused on leadership development as the critical path to organizational effectiveness. He first began teaching leadership courses in 1982 while serving as an instructor at the Fort Knox.
• Since then, Richard has provided leadership development training and consulting in every organization where he has been employed or engaged. Believing there is an imperative need for authentic leadership, in addition to serving as Warbird’s CAO and EVP of its Transitional Leadership Solutions, he conducts leadership development training through keynote speeches, workshops and individual leadership development consulting services to Warbird Healthcare Advisors clients.