Our People

As Founder and Managing Director, Richard Cowley has a passion for growing businesses, helping teams and individuals grow and achieve, believing that it will ultimately help economies grow through commercial success.

As a globally experienced HR leader, he has spent most of his illustrious thirty-eight-year HR career delivering the organisational aspirations of large global MNC companies including military, aerospace, fast-moving consumer goods, automation machines, logistics, and supply chain. These have included the Royal Navy, British Aerospace, DHL, Coca-Cola, Kimberly-Clark, and Tetra Pak. By contrast, his SME experience exposure has been in the food, health and beverage, office equipment, construction, machine and automation, cycling, jewellery, multi-level marketing personal care, AI HR software, recruitment and outsourcing; information technology and software founder of his own heavily invested HR technology start up.

He has been responsible for providing HR functional leadership and transactional support for over 20,000 employees of all levels and job types in country, regional, and global roles covering more than twenty-five countries.

He has developed, led, and facilitated over forty global, regional, national or functional transformation change programs in various project, leadership and workforce contexts.

He has led over fifty business focused OGSM business strategy and performance alignment, coaching and feedback sessions.

He has been a recruitment specialist at all levels of recruitment as well as a LinkedIn recruiter. He has hired in developing and emerging markets including Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Oceania, the USA, and the UK.

He has been a recruitment specialist at all levels of recruitment as well as a LinkedIn recruiter. He has hired in developing and emerging markets including Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Oceania, the USA, and the UK.

His key capabilities and passions are business opportunity delivery, organisational capability development, digital application, and transformation (machine learning, data science, natural language programming, chatbot, SaaS), talent and performance management, and very hands-on delivery. He is very passionate about helping people, technology, and process innovation, and making a social impact.