Dick Richardson

Dick Richardson’s Experience

Leadership Experiences Consultant

The Conference Board

Nonprofit; 51-200 employees; Research industry

November 2010 – Present (1 year 2 months)

Co-developing the new Leadership Experiences at NASA: The Apollo Program. This new program draws on the leadership lessons of the manned space flight effort over the 10-year period of The Apollo Program. Participants delve into leadership practices, confronting the challenges of innovation and maintaining global advantage, team leadership, and crisis and risk management. The program takes place on site at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and will also explore managing complex organizations and creating excellence in execution.

Director of Leadership Development

ITT

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ITT; Industrial Automation industry

August 2008 – November 2010 (2 years 4 months)

Responsible for the leadership development of executives and managers at ITT. This includes requirements, design and development, deployment, measurement of face-to-face, work-based, and e-learning. Created the protocol, conducted interviews and focus groups with the most senior leaders, and analyzed internal data and academic research to create the new Leadership Competency model for ITT. Led the development of ITT’s first enterprise-wide management development program – FrontLine Management Excellence. This offering used new leadership approaches such as manager circles, PALs, and custom content developed with Harvard Business School.

Program Director

IBM

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry

1977 – 2008 (31 years)

Various posiitons in IBM Leadership Development and Learning. As the founding leader of the IBM Center Advanced Learning (CAL), drove innovation in learning design using real work projects and to establish the standards of excellence of learning design for the enterprise. Co-created the award winning Basic Blue – a new global system for development of new first-line managers. Led a successful reengineering initiative to transform everything about the way managers are developed in IBM. LEADing@IBM integrated different learning approaches into one coherent design. Approaches included: leaders teaching leaders, work-based learning, e-learning, and state of the art learning labs. Co-developed Edvisor — first in industry to offer individually customized learning paths or development plans using 360 assessment and Intelligent Agent advice on competencies – Patent # 6,944,624 B2

Dick Richardson’s Patents

• Personalized e-Learning Method and System 
• United States Patent 6944624B2
• Inventors: Dick Richardson, Peter Orton, Nancy Lewis, John Wattendorf
  Co-developed Edvisor — first in industry to offer individually customized learning paths or development plans using 360 assessment and Intelligent Agent advice on competencies – Patent # 6,944,624 B2
• On Demand Learning Model 
• United States Patent 7,914,288 Issued October 7, 2004
• Inventors: Dick Richardson
  Learning activities in an organization are allocated for work apart, work embedded, and work enabled learning types. In work apart learning, employees leave the work itself and learn through traditional classroom or technology enhanced methods. Work embedded learning occurs on the job without interrupting the flow of work. Work embedded learning uses the power of experience and execution with…more

Dick Richardson’s Education

Syracuse University

MBA

1975 – 1977

 

Christ Church College — United Kingdom

Organizational Learning

Graduate work in Organizaitonal Development and Learning

Elmira College

BA, Philosophy and Economics

 

Dick Richardson’s Additional Information

Groups and Associations:

• Charlotte Business Professionals
• Elmira College Alumni Association
• Global Coaching and Consulting Group
• Global Learning executives
• IBM co/ex workers independent group
• IBMers
• ITT – Engineered for Life
• Marathoners
• Maxwell School
• Network Charlotte
• STORYTELLING ORGANIZATIONS
• The Conference Board Leadership Experiences Group
• The Greater IBM Connection: IBM’s business and social network for past and present IBM employees
• Trainers Network
• Training&Development
• Workplace Learning and Performance Forum

Honors and Awards:

•Corporate Benchmarking Study: 10 Best of Learning
•ASTD “Excellence in Practice” Awards: 3 Citations
•International CINDY Awards: 2 awards
•EPSS (Electronic Performance Support Systems) Award
•AXIEM Awards: 2 awards
•Multimedia & Training Internet Award
•Corporate University Exchange Excellence Award
•People Developer Standards Award New Media INVISION
•International Society for Performance Improvement: “Best Practices” Awards
•New Media INVISION Award: Corporate Learning Innovation