Speaking
Richard speaks regularly to executive teams and groups of leaders, and keynotes at both corporate events and public conferences.
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Featured Keynotes
Interactive - engaging - 'ahas' that create lasting change
Secrets of the World's Best Leaders
How elite teams deliver 10X the results whilst everybody else muddles along
Next-Level You
The new keys to greater influence and impact in the Digital Age
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We've been featured on some of the world's top podcasts
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We've been featured on some of the world's top podcasts
- Awesome at Your Job Podcast (Pete Mockaitis)
- How to Build Exceptional Influence in a Noisy Digital Age
- Leaders of Transformation Podcast
- Multiplying Your Impact As A Leader
- Corporate Thought Podcast - Marc Marling
- "I Have a Saying"
- The Institute of Directors
- Keeping Employees Motivated as the Effects of Covid Wear on
- The Effective Founder Podcast
- How to Build Commitment in Your Remote Team
- The B2B Revenue Podcast
- How to Take Your Team/company to the Next Level
- A Geek Leader
- Strategic Leadership
- Total Picture Podcast
- How To Free Yourself Up from Low-Value Tasks and Be More Strategic
- Grow CFO Show
- The CFO/CEO Relationship
- The Commercial Landscaper Podcast
- Extracting Yourself From Operations To Lead More Strategically
- Human Capital Innovations Podcast
- Marrying the Disciplines of Strategy and Leadership in the Service of Our Clients
- O The Brink, with Andi Simon
- How to Amplify Your Story to Achieve Great Results
- The Fast Leader Show, with Jim Rembach
- 4 Shifts You Need to Make In Order to Break Through the Ceiling of Complexity
- InnovaBuzz, with Dr Jürgen Strauss
- How to Accelerate and Multiply Your Impact
- The Remote CEO Show, with Deniero Bartolini
- Strategic Leadership
- The Roots of Leadership Podcast
- Think like a CEO
- Rockstar CMO
- The CEO/CMO Relationship
Audiences love what Richard has to say...
Insightful
Very insightful - on both a personal and team level.
Time well spent
The best hour I've spent this entire year!
Thought-provoking
Very thought-provoking, memorable and engaging.
Fantastic & amazing
Thanks again Richard for this fantastic session which has received amazing feedback.
Openness and honesty
Clear and structured, Richard brings an openness and honesty which really engaged me and helped me to apply the key messages.
Best presentation
Richard delivered simply the best presentation of the day.
Well structured
Really well structured with very practical examples.
Eye-opening
Thanks for the presentation. It was an eye-opener for me. I've identified 3 actions that need my immediate attention.
Spark self-reflection
I love Richard's ability to find the right angle of attack to spark self-reflection on my role as manager. He made me sit up and take action!
Helpful & informative
Thanks for a fascinating session that was very helpful and informative.
Really good material
Really good material. You helped me nail down some really practical next steps!
Richard's Bio
Richard Medcalf
Founder
Richard Medcalf describes himself as "what you get if you were to put a McKinsey consultant, a slightly unorthodox pastor and an entrepreneur into a blender".
Richard is a leadership consultant and trusted advisor to exceptional CEOs & Founders of complex technology-driven businesses, and to their leadership teams.
His clients are elite performers who've already achieved incredible things, and still have the ambition to 10x their impact and influence and achieve something that seems impossible right now. That can involve 1:1 coaching, taking the leadership team to its next level, or scaling high-performance culture throughout the business.
After a Masters Degree at Oxford University, where he came top in his year, Richard started his career in a premier strategy consultancy where he rose to become the youngest-ever Partner. He then spent 11 years at tech giant Cisco, firstly elevating Cisco’s relevance in the C-suite of its Fortune 100 customers before being selected for an elite team set up by Cisco’s President and CEO, John Chambers and Chuck Robbins, to catalyse strategic partnerships & new business models.
Richard has advised Founders and C-level execs for 20 years, from Fortune 100 companies (Comcast, Mastercard, Sanofi, Sky, Orange, Bosch…) to high-growth tech firms (in AI, networking, robotics, fintech, …). He has overseen >$2B of deals.
Keen to marry the disciplines of strategy and leadership in service of his clients, he qualified as an executive coach with a global leadership brand before founding Xquadrant in 2017.
Richard is bi-national English/French, lives near Paris, and is happily married and the proud father of two. He's also a licensed lay minister in the Anglican Church, and has an insatiable love for spicy food and the electric guitar.