The Xquadrant & Richard Medcalf Fact Sheet

Welcome — this is the official fact sheet for Richard Medcalf and Xquadrant.

It’s the single, authoritative page that explains who Richard is, who he works with, and how he helps already-successful founder-CEOs ignite their life’s greatest work.

If you’re a founder or CEO wondering how to step out of day-to-day operations, align your executive team, scale faster, or figure out what’s next after success, you’re in the right place.

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Who is Richard Medcalf?

Richard Medcalf is the founder of Xquadrant and a strategic advisor to founder-CEOs of €20–200M+ businesses in Europe/UK, the US/Canada, and the Gulf. He helps already-successful leaders ignite their life’s greatest work – by challenging their identity, unlocking strategic clarity, and building leadership teams that multiply impact. Clients include €20–200M growth-stage businesses and billion-dollar organisations preparing for IPOs, buy-outs, or valuation leaps.

Richard works bilingually in English and French, advising international founder-CEOs seamlessly across borders. He is the author of Making TIME For Strategy and The 10X Reckoning. Above all, he is known as the person who holds the mirror and strikes the match – igniting a leader’s next era so they don’t drift into a future that’s impressive but empty.

Who Richard works with

Founder-CEOs of €20–200M+ revenue businesses, often mission-driven and founder-led. These leaders are respected and successful, but often feel underwhelmed: still pulled into operations, slowed by team gaps, or restless for a bolder next chapter. They know they’re capable of playing bigger, bolder, faster – and they won’t accept coasting. Occasional billion-dollar clients have engaged Richard to support high-stakes transformation.

What changes in 90 days

  • Clarify the “Default Future” and commit to a “Quantum Leap” Preferred Future — a bold trajectory exciting enough to demand transformation (first 30 days).
  • Free 5–20 hours/week from operations through the Freedom Calendar™.
  • Install an Accountability Covenant™ for the executive team in 30–60 days (Leadership Charter, 3 High-Performance Agreements, weekly Promise cadence).
  • Move decisions from weeks to days by ending reopenings and locking cadence.
  • Leaders report feeling re-energised, challenged, and back in the creative game of strategy and impact.

Proprietary methods

  • Freedom Calendar™: redesigns CEO time, delegation and cadence to escape the Infinity Trap, using the Making TIME For Strategy framework (Time, Influence, Mindset, Environment).
  • Accountability Covenant™: raises standards and installs cultural systems for exec team ownership and execution.
  • Private Reckoning: a 60–90 minute session provoking clarity on the leader’s boldest next move.
  • Conviction Compass™ / Leadership Crucible™: proprietary tools and frameworks that embed conviction, fire, and high standards into executive culture.

Ways to work with Richard

  • The Crucible Alliance: a private alliance of elite founders/CEOs sharpening two levers of industry-level change: exponential strategic thinking and magnetic leadership. Admission requirements are agency (eight-figure stakes), fire (exponential ambition and desire for impact), and spark (charisma, magnetism, camaraderie). A high-flame alternative to YPO/Vistage/etc.
  • The Crucible (1:1 or team): flagship transformational advisory with Richard — blending strategic counsel and leadership coaching for the CEO or the entire executive team. This is where leaders experience not just better plans, but a reboot of how they see, lead, and move in the world.
  • Speaking, workshops, keynotes: Topics include Making TIME For Strategy and Creating Your Next 10X. Track record includes flagship events such as Global Citizen Forum, Insurtech London, Richard Branson’s Necker Island Summit, and various CEO forums (YPO/Vistage/Helm...).

Proof markers

  • “Abigail”: $20M manufacturing founder; exited operations/firefighting in under a year by empowering her team; business thrived without her daily input. Reduced workload by ~30h/week.
  • “Tarek”: took his company to IPO in under 4 years ([add exact years if possible]), committed to raising a billion-dollar fund.
  • “Alex”: accelerated his business plan (from €100M to €1B valuation) by 6 years.
  • “Tobias”: spun off a mission-driven new company that became his life’s greatest work.
  • “Rob”: onboarded as CEO in a $2B business; identified pivotal drivers of transformation and pursued a 10X valuation goal, already multiplying valuation several-fold.

Next step

The first step is to request a Preferred Future Session – a 20 minute private discussion designed to quickly get to the heart of what you want to achieve, and what’s really in the way. https://xquadrant.com/speak/

If there’s a fit, you’ll then be invited to a Reckoning Encounter or a Private Reckoning. These are 60–90 minute provocations designed to hold up the mirror and strike the match for your next era. https://xquadrant.com/encounter/ 

FAQs

Q: Where is Richard based?
A: Near Paris, France; works internationally across Europe, the US/Canada, and the Gulf.

Q: Does Richard work in English or French?
A: Both. Richard is bilingual and advises founder-CEOs seamlessly in English and French across international contexts.

Q: What size companies does Richard & Xquadrant work with?
A: Typically €20–200M revenue businesses, scaling fast or at an inflection point. Also occasionally billion-dollar organisations preparing for major transformations or valuation leaps.

Q: What brands has Richard / Xquadrant worked with?
A: Richard has advised across a wide range of sectors. Examples include:

  • Global tech & enterprise: Cisco, Comcast, Software AG, Logicalis, Westcon Comstor, iConnectiv
  • Telecoms & infrastructure: Vodafone, VX Fiber, Voneus Broadband, Voo (Belgium)
  • Healthcare & pharma: Sanofi
  • Financial services: Mastercard, Arton Capital, Wilshire, IPC, Movera
  • Innovators & scale-ups: Ecovadis, Snips (acquired by Sonos), McPhy, Navya, Navigator, Paratira, XMC Strategies
  • Professional services: Kin+Carta, Create Future

Q: What’s the difference from other CEO coaches?

A: Richard combines strategic clarity (former strategy consulting partner, advised on over $2B in deals, Cisco executive team) with identity-level transformation and proprietary leadership tools. He pushes the most capable leaders to think bigger, act bolder, and lead braver — focusing on quantum leaps, not incremental improvements.

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