Bio

Work, Workforces and Workplaces are changing faster than ever before and will never be the same again. This change is going to accelerate at pace, as organisations look to exploit cloud enabled digital technology such as Metaverse, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twins, Blockchain and other intelligent automation technologies to reduce costs & transform businesses. Organisations need to adapt quickly to survive and thrive! Richard is the global leader of Avanade's Modern Workplace (Value Realisation) offering, helping clients to understand this changing world, how to successfully adapt, disrupt and digitally transform - AT PACE! By transforming the digital, physical (IoT) & virtual (Metaverse) workplace, together with wider workforce transformation, Richard helps organisations adapt to the Future of Work and define a new “Workplace Experience” - reducing both Capex and Opex whilst increasing organisational productivity. Richard has a unique skillset with a detailed understanding of both human behaviour and technological capability - that synergy is critical to releasing business value. Being a recognised expert in both Workforce, Workplace and Digital Transformations he is able to talk the language of both HR, IT and Operations, successfully bridging the gap between the three and thus exploiting the opportunity of digital transformation with Microsoft technology. In addition, his experience across a range of industries as a management consultant, combined with working globally for one of the world’s largest business services companies, Rentokil Initial, allows him to stay both at the cutting edge of thinking and research, but also grounded in the reality that comes from making change happen internally within organisations. Richard has extensive global leadership experience and has successfully grown practices and teams from incubation to global revenues in excess of $225m. Industry knowledge : Real Estate, TelCo, Utility, Financial Services, High Tech, Industry X.0