Richard Newton

Updated at: Dec. 5, 2010, 10:58 p.m.

Richard Newton founded Enixus in 2005. He is an expert adviser on change, consulting skills, and project management.

Richard formed Enixus after holding a variety of consultancy and line management roles, working for a wide selection of organisations across the world. Richard's core expertise is managing the delivery of complex change. This is supported by knowledge of disciplines such as process design, organisation design and technology exploitation, and functionally specific delivery/development processes such as new product development, software development and consultancy engagement processes. He has also had strategic and operational roles with significant headcount, budgetary and P&L responsibilities which also enables him to understand change from the perspective of sponsors and those impacted by change. He has worked for three major consultancies Coopers & Lybrand, A.T. Kearney and Ernst & Young. He has worked in the UK, Germany, Italy, Australia, USA, France, Singapore, Malaysia and Kazakhstan.

Richard has degrees in Mechanical Engineering & Economics (University of Birmingham), Software Engineering & Computer Graphics (Middlesex Polytechnics) and is currently studying for a degree in Philosophy (Birkbeck, University of London). He is a member of the Institute of Directors, the Royal Institute of Philosophy, the Association of Project Managers and the Institute of Business Advisors.

Richard is a regular contributor to many journals, and has written several books, including:

  • em>The Project Manager: Mastering the Art of Delivery (2nd edition)
  • The Project Managers Book of Checklists
  • Project Management Step by Step
  • Financial Times Briefing: Change Management
  • The Practice and Theory of Project Management, delivering value through change (MBA level textbook)

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