The person you work with
Meet Richard
Vitalis is led by Richard Maddrell. Every engagement is his — small enough that you always know who is doing the work, and why.
Richard has spent thirty years as a consultant and transformation partner, helping small and mid-sized organisations move toward their own definition of success. His background is in reflexive practice — the discipline of thinking honestly about how you work while you are working.
He is a facilitator who blends intellectual rigour with humanity, and a strategic thinker who does not stop at the insight: the point is always to move from what you have understood to what you will now do, building trust along the way.
He holds a BSc in Business Economics and an MA in Management Learning.
The most important conversations in any organisation are usually the ones nobody has quite managed to have yet. My job is to make those conversations possible.
How Richard works
Guiding principles
Kindness is a strategy
Not a soft option. It is how trust and honesty become possible at all.
Vulnerability builds trust
Someone has to go first. Usually it is the person leading.
Integrity is enough
You do not have to be remarkable. You have to be genuine, consistently.
Impact lives in each other
Change that does not take root in relationships does not last.
Away from work, Richard writes and paints, and spends as much time as he can with his children and grandchildren. He tries to build a life with more intention and less noise — working out what truly matters, making time for it, and creating a legacy he can look back on with pride. It is the same thing he helps organisations do.
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