Randy Richards, PhD
Consultant for Organizational Effectiveness and Leadership Training

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Organizational Effectiveness and Leadership

• Executive Coaching

Randy Richards, Ph.D., a second career academic, spent almost 20 years in management in both the public and the private sector before becoming a full-time professor at St. Ambrose University.

Randy currently serves as Professor Emeritus at St. Ambrose as well as a contributing faculty member at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management in Zagreb, Croatia and Visiting Professor at Kaiserslautern Technical University in Kaiserslautern, Germany, the International Management School in Vilnius, Lithuania, and the Berlin Potsdam School of Business in Berlin and Hamburg Germany. He also works part-time for Kirkwood Community College’s Corporate Training Center.

An experienced facilitator and highly skilled workshop designer for adult learners. Randy has an active consulting and coaching practice. Over the course of his forty plus year career, Randy estimates he has taught more than 10,000 people across all of his courses and workshops.

He also has authored several peer-reviewed publications in the general area of organizational behavior, wrote and produced the video documentary, The Heartland Highway Project and written several plays including, Sylvan Slough that has been produced locally. His novel – a corporate thriller – The Unseen Hand of Peter Gyges and his new book Conflict and Collaboration, The Search for Integrative Space are currently available on Amazon. He has also published poetry in Quercus.

Randy graduated from St. Ambrose with a bachelor’s degree in 1971, from Georgetown with a master’s degree in 1975 and from the University of Iowa with a doctorate in 1996, all in philosophy. He and his wife Dolores, married for 43 years, live in the Highland Park neighborhood of Rock Island. They have four adult children and eleven grandchildren.