consultancy
In his professional practice, Richard brings people together around ideas and local contexts to ask what is possible - and then how do we make that happen. He works with individuals and organisations to achieve aspirations and evolve practice in the arts, heritage and urban planning sectors. This includes business development and strategic planning as well as defining initiating, developing and delivering development projects . Drawing on over 30 years of international experience, he helps partners achieve organisational and personal aspirations through:
services offered: strategic planning, facilitation, mentoring, placemaking.
strategic planning
the exploration and articulation of ideas and ambitions for individuals, organisations, programmes or projects
the definition and articulation of vision, mission, values and foundations, along with goals and targets
the design of practical and achievable programmes of strategic activity that realise these ideas and ambitions
the creation of medium and long term strategies for policy, organisational and practice development
the design of project programmes that directly support organisational and audience/stakeholder strategy
facilitated business and project planning, including detailed short, medium and long term schedules of activity
the creation of financial management systems designed as management tools to keep you on track with targets and ambitions
strategy development for capacity building
the creation and delivery of artistic, social and urban development projects
arts project management.
design and facilitation of forums and group meetings
Richard has created and delivered a variety of face-to-face and online conferences and networking events, acting as Executive Producer, Creative Director, Content Director and/or Project Manager. He is experienced in working with partners to create high quality stimulating and impactful events that inform policy and practice locally, nationally and internationally.
Richard also facilitates working group meetings to achieve specific objectives. This can be business planning, programmes of strategic activity, identifying solutions to issues or barriers for growth, exploring new possibilities or defining policy.
leadership mentoring and coaching
This includes exploring possibilities and ambitions in order to identify a personalised action plan that utilises strategic networking, market positioning, action for evidence, personal growth and learning to achieve significant results. Richard has worked with CEOs of start-ups, SMEs, NGOs and strategic business units as well as internationally renowned producers, artists and makers.
urban consultation for placemaking
Richard has developed a series of consultation methodologies for urban development, design and planning. These see Richard work to the commissioning client’s brief, but by collaborating with a variety of communities in a specific neighbourhood or development location to identify relevant, timely and appropriate solutions that utlise hyper-local assets.
Methods include asset and actor mapping, photography, story-telling, future speculation and gamification, so that Richard is able to focus on harnessing opportunities and reducing barriers. Richard also created an app for community asset mapping,
Examples are here…..
Richard thinks about placemaking in this way…
