Dr Richard Claydon

CEO & Co-founder

Organisational Misbehaviourists

Dr Richard Claydon has consulted to and worked with HSBC, IBM, PWC, McKinsey, CEB, Gartner, Beiersdorf, Sony, Nokia, HP, MGSM, Copenhagen Business School, Newcastle University, The Danish Parliament, and Energie E2 Danmark.

He has designed and taught MBA courses on Leadership and Change, and Organisational Behaviour and Communication. He also has run meet-ups focusing on the future of work and change in the digital era.

Richard's work examines how people handle the complexity and ambiguity of modern organisational life and how original thought emerges in relentlessly changing, highly uncertain and often toxic environments via irony, cynicism, black humour and sarcasm. He also examines organisational misbehaviours - e.g. disengagement, toxicity, bullying, harassment, absenteeism - addressing their bottom-line cost, explaining why they are increasingly prevalent in contemporary workplaces, and offering possible ways to reduce or eliminate them.

Thought leaders in leadership and change in the UK and Australia, including a Harvard Top-200 Management Guru, have described Richard's research as “a touchstone for future work in management”, “outstanding in daring and imagination” and “at the forefront of modern debate”. Peers and colleagues in the people, culture and change spaces have described it as "in another league altogether", "iconoclastic", "mind-bending" and "a fresh breeze in the cliché-laden organisational culture buzz".