Richard Leaton

Trusted Global Executive with over 25 years of executive-level program leadership experience focused on global business processes, technology, and product implementations. Creative problem solver with a unique mix of technical and business proficiency that lends itself to developing key strategies and world-class solutions with a significant impact on revenue and ROI. Played a vital role in leading multiple global enterprises through the concept and execution of master data management and data governance programs.

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OVER 25 YEARS

Experience

Global Leadership

Strategic leader of large, global, organizations with full P&L ownership in excess of $50M. Led teams in North and South America, Europe, Middle-East, Asia and Russia. Has been repeatedly recognized with executive stock grants for performance better than plan while achieving top 10th percentile results on bi-annual employee engagement surveys.

Operational Execution

Documented history of taking rough ideas and growing them into highly successful operational programs. Have lead large-scale development of new products and processes as well as expansion of existing service offerings. Specific example are highlighted within the LinkedIn profile.

Data Management

Senior executive data leadership. Having led multiple global enterprises through the concept and execution of master data management and data governance programs, have the keen ability to identify connection points in order to glean insights while executing data monetization strategies.

Program Management

25 years of executive-level program leadership experience focused on global business process, technology, and product implementations.

Continuous Improvement

Certified Lean / Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Expertise in process improvement and stabilization as well as global change management.

Leadership Author

Intentional Engagement® leadership model to help you on your journey to an empowered and engaged workplace.

Leadership vs Management
Connecting vs Talking
Empowering YOUR Workforce
Humble Leadership
Importance of Intentional Actions

Leadership Style

People-first Leader

Personal:
Connect with those around you (friends, family, colleagues). Listen and reflect. Understand their feelings and avoid being judgmental. Encourage and offer insights versus suggestions. This behavior will demonstrate you have empathy, respect and concern for them and are not about self-promoting.

Professional:
Engage, inspire, and empower. When you are a humble leader, you will bring out the very best in your employees. When you empower your workforce, you will draw out ideas and solutions that may allow for improvement or growth that otherwise may have been overlooked.

Highly driven servant leader

Many interpret servant leadership as a passive act. This assessment is far from the truth. I consider it my duty to ensure the people working for or with me are successful, and in turn, I will be successful as well. I am a highly driven individual and will ensure that the vision of the business as well as my vision for my teams are are clearly understood and that the teams have the tools they need to execute that vision.

Hands-on leader

Although I lead and coach my teams to succeed, I will not ask them to perform work I would not be willing to do myself. I ensure my team members at every level of the organization feel comfortable connecting with me as well as feeling “safe” to ask for help should the need arise.

Coach

Having been trained and certified as a master quality coach, I have learned over the years that direct discussions are far more productive than talking around an issue. I ask probing questions to help employees learn to problem solve rather than “suggesting” a solution–their ideas are likely better than my own! I am also direct about coaching on areas of improvement so that human resource concerns have the potential to avoid becoming human resource problems.

RICHARD LEATON