Richard has worked with SCP for the past four years with various clients, including NRC, PA Hospice, Virginia Housing, USDA, IRS, FEMA, and FHFA. His career interests have run along two tracks: Human Resources and Organizational Development and Leadership Coaching. He learned through senior positions in his 30-year ExxonMobil career that significant organizational improvement and valuable individual development are often made through HR/OD and coaching. Richard’s international HR leadership work focused on management development, succession planning, and multiple OD interventions, including reorganizations, asset spin-offs, and office openings/closures. He has worked in all HR functional specialties. In the last 20 years of his ExxonMobil career, in addition to his leadership coaching (which focused on senior executives and leaders), he was the senior HR leader on a high-level team that identified, negotiated, and implemented over 30 M&A transactions throughout the world, with a total value over $20B. Richard interacted daily with C-suite executives to develop strategic objectives, implementation plans, and communication strategies. Since retiring early from ExxonMobil, he has continued as a strategic advisor and coach to senior leaders in the corporate sector, government agencies, the US military, higher education, nonprofits, and start-up entrepreneurs.  He has provided presentations and training to organizations, including SHRM, ICF, ATD, and several universities.  

 

Richard earned a Bachelor of Arts (AB, Psychology and Environmental Studies Double Major, Honors) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA, Management and Human Resources) from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Master of Education (MEd, Counseling Psychology) from the University of Houston. He completed George Mason University’s ICF-approved coaching training program in 2013 and is certified at the PCC level by the ICF. He has been an Adjunct Faculty member and Career Advisor at George Mason University since 2016.