Meet the Navigator
For over 10 years Richard has been working with leaders, leadership teams and organisations developing leadership capability and performance.
Richard Cartlidge
Our Director, Richard, used to be a navigator in the Royal Air Force flying Chinook helicopters – with operational experience drawn from tours in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan.
He was a tactics instructor and spent two tours developing leaders and mission commanders. Richard transferred his extensive experience and academic learning of leadership to the corporate space, where he headed leadership development programmes and initiatives for several years in a £1.1Bn organisation focused on operational delivery.
Now he’s a navigator for senior leadership – guiding organisations, teams and individuals to get from A to B, helping them to make capacity, think differently, empower others, focus on results and optimising business performance.
For over 20 years Richard has been working with leaders, leadership teams and organisations developing leadership capability and performance.
“Richard’s coaching has helped me considerably over the last 12 months.
He exemplifies the qualities of professionalism, discretion, trustworthiness, and objectivity, and consistently demonstrated intelligence and a strong sense of ethics and integrity.
He combines being very challenging, and excellent deployment of ‘knife-edge’ questions (which are uncomfortable to answer, and continue to resonate with me long after the end of the session), with being very supportive and ambitious for me. Initial outcomes from his coaching were that my ability to adapt to circumstances I found challenging improved, and I felt I was able to be more courageous, determined and authentic at work.
Later, the effect was to raise my ambitions. He articulates his goal as increasing the velocity and scope of able and successful people, and as a result of working with him I’ve a much stronger vision of my future career track and the steps required on the way. I’ve definitely been more productive because of his coaching.”
Shan
