Richard Kemp is the Co-Director MBA Executive Experience at The Open University. Prior to
this, Richard was Director of Executive Development Programmes (EDP) at Henley Management
College. As such, Richard has many years’ experience ensuring executive education reflects
market place expectations around thought leadership, collaborative research, faculty and
practitioner expertise.
Richard has a strong career experience of leading strategic change, leading sales and marketing
teams, raising organisational reputation in established and new market environments and
enhancing organisation-wide capacity in project management. Richard designs bespoke
learning and change programmes that deliver defined outcomes at the individual up to the
organisational or systemic level.
He has a track record of leading teams to successfully cross boundaries to achieve key
organisational and/or transformational goals and a strong track record of helping teams
value diversity and inclusion as touchstones for innovation and creativity. Richard has long
experience of coaching leaders through conditions of conflict and stress to bring people from
very different backgrounds together in ways which achieve high level change and purposeful
success.
Richard’s focus on the impact of education on social and economic “good” has informed his
respect for leadership approaches which foster entrepreneurship, collaboration, the sharing
of knowledge and raising of best practice as the most reliable means of sharing sustainable
outcomes to the benefit of many.
Richard’s past roles include strategic change roles for a variety of international organisations
including Greenpeace worldwide and Pearson (and the FT). Recent clients include Harcourt, the
UK Publishers’ Association, the European Commission, the UK Learning and Skills Council and a
variety of Asia-based private school chains.