Richard Kelly has spent 25 years developing leaders. Working in both public and private sectors he has developed leaders at all levels of the organisation both in the UK and overseas. Over the last 15 years, Richard has worked as an independent leadership consultant based in Europe and South America. Currently, he is the CEO of a niche leadership consulting company based in the UK, with British, European and South American clients, that seeks to develop leaders at a systems level. Richard is the author of Constructing Leadership 4.0: Swarm Leadership and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Born in London, he started his professional career working for the UK government as a PhD graduate hire working in leadership and organisational development. Then, he moved to the private sector, where he worked in telecommunications and the oil and gas sector in senior leadership development and OD roles. For the last 15 years, Richard has worked as an independent OD and leadership consultant based in Europe and South America, mainly in the automotive industry. Richard’s core philosophy is to create the right organisational environment and system for people and projects to flourish. His new book, The Nature of Business Transformation: A Swarm Intelligent Approach to Reinventing Organisations, will be published by Routledge later this year.