Speaker
Glenn Richardson, LeaderSages
Glenn is the founder of LeaderSages, and is a noted Leadership Coach, Executive Consultant, and Oral Proposal and Presentation Coach. As a Leadership Coach, he enables and equips new and emerging leaders to succeed and prepares technical, scientific, legal, and other professionals to transition into key leadership positions. As an Executive Consultant, he guides strategic planning, executive transition, and organizational change and transformation. Additionally, he assists organizations with critical decisions regarding strategy, operations, and growth, links operational objectives with organizational strategies, and provides guidance for cost management, revenue capture, and resource allocation. As an Oral Proposal and Presentation coach, Glenn provides coaching for live, videotaped, and virtual oral proposals for business opportunities valued in the multimillion- and often billion-dollar range that have significant impact on an organization’s operations, infrastructure, systems, and security. He specializes in proposals and presentations for FEDSIM and FEDSIM-like opportunities where the evaluators and ultimately the buyers require a presentation from the team who will actually perform the work. As a result, Glenn is known for generating credibility and confidence among his clients, as well as their organizations.
Glenn’s experience includes key consulting and operational leadership positions. He is a former Partner at Arthur Andersen LLP where he led the Strategy, Finance, and Economics practice and received three consecutive Consultants’ Choice Awards for coaching, leadership, and mentorship. Glenn is also a former Partner at Deloitte LLP where he championed an innovative Managerhood Program to provide newly promoted Managers with leadership, counseling, engagement management, and personal development skills. He Co-Chairs the inaugural Advisory Board of the Shenandoah University Leadership Academy and was the primary author of the proposal and plans to establish SULA. He also serves on the inaugural Board of Advisors for Syracuse University’s Office of Veteran and Military Affairs, where he is a frequent speaker, panelist, and pitch competition judge in the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities He previously served on the Board of Directors and as Chair of the Programs Committee of the Human Resources Leadership Forum of Metropolitan Washington DC, as an Adjunct Instructor in West Virginia University’s Department of Leadership Studies, and on the Advisory Boards of selected emerging companies. He has also served as a leadership advisor in the National Contract Management Association’s (NCMA) Contract Management Leadership Development Program, co-developed NCMA’s first Leadership National Educational Seminar and developed an NCMA National Leadership Seminar on Collaborative Problem Solving. He is a frequent author and contributor to Contract Management Magazine, and his article on oral proposals and presentations appeared in the February 2023 edition.
Glenn’s military assignments included the US Army Special Operations Command; US Army, Europe; service in Operation Desert Storm; and The Joint Staff. He is a graduate of multiple military institutions, and leader development programs – from the 82nd Airborne Division’s Primary Leadership Academy to the US Naval War College.
Glenn earned a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the US Naval War College, a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Syracuse University, and undergraduate degrees in Business Management and Economics from North Carolina State University.