Dave Richards

Business management speaker and innovations expert Dr. Dave Richards is an experienced business leader and entrepreneur who has become a global leader in both business thought and practice and one of the UK’s most sought after business speaker.

A truly inspirational and highly engaging business speaker Dr. Dave offers expert advice on both the 'hard stuff' (strategy, innovation and leadership) and the 'soft stuff' (people, psychology, culture, communication and engagement) as well providing audiences with an in-depth understanding of their point of intersection: a fundamental and often neglected aspect of business management.

An accessible after dinner speaker, Dr. Dave believes in speaking honestly and refuses to patronise any of his audiences, whilst, as a founding member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Innovation Lab; honorary visiting Fellow with the Faculty of Management, Cass Business School, City University, London; Fellow of the Institute of Directors; and Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce Dr. Richards has experience at the highest and most privileged end of the business and entrepreneurial spectrum.

It is the combination of creativity and experience that make Dr. Dave Richards an ideal business management speaker and successful business leader in his own right.

With a CV that includes periods spent as a senior executive and global communications and leadership manager for multinational leaders such as OracleCorporation and Nortel Networks, Dr. Richards has helped to both boost and maintain the financial and business success of some of the biggest businesses in the world.

His work as a business management speaker not only reflects on the pressures of such competitive work, reporting to thousands of shareholders and being responsible for billions of dollars’ worth of shareholder funds, but also the pleasures of business management, leadership and teamwork.

Now a dedicated after dinner speaker Dr. Dave Richards has established his own company, Dr. Dave Innovation Ltd, through which he supports enterprises and entrepreneurs creating and building with his unique, powerful, strategic approach to business management and development.