Richard Fenning
Richard is an executive coach and a partner at Manchester Square Partners. He acts as a sounding board and adviser to senior leaders managing their organisations through complex issues or planning their own professional futures.
Richard spent 32 years in professional services, principally with the risk consulting firm, Control Risks. He was Global CEO for 14 years until 2019, leading the firm through a period of significant international expansion and an innovative management buy-out in 2016.
Richard has lived and worked in the UK, Australia, Japan, Singapore and the United States and has advised numerous global corporations on the impact of geopolitical uncertainty and high-stakes problem solving, often in volatile parts of the world. He is also the chair of data analytics firm, Moonshot, combatting online harm and chair of infrastructure consultancy, Steer Group.
He is the author of “What On Earth Can Go Wrong” published in March 2021. His account of nearly three decades in the risk and intelligence world, that has much to say about leadership, risk and volatility in a hard to predict world. What on Earth Can Go Wrong was selected by the Financial Times as one of its recommended reads for the summer in 2021. Richard is also an Independent Prison Monitor at HMP Belmarsh in London
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