EXPLORE
EVOLVE
GROW.
I am Richard Warren: Advisor, coach, and connector for business leaders.
I HELP PURPOSE-LED SME LEADERS SUCCEED.
The world is full of potential, and plenty to fix. If you’re building a solution, I’m here to help you land it.
Having founded and grown a multinational business across the US, UK and Europe, I understand the journey.
I use that experience, knowledge and network to back great people doing great work.
This is how I can help:
EXPLORE
Understanding your Reality
Analysis and discovery - what makes you unique - clarify risks and priorities, bring the next stage into focus.
EVOLVE
Design for Traction
Coaching for founders and key leaders, ways-of-working, and organisation design that fits whatever stage you are at.
GROW
Execute and Compound
Strategic networking, targeted search & selection for pivotal roles, leadership mentoring, board support.
WHO I HELP
Entrepreneurs and small-business leaders building products, services, or technologies to make the future more exciting, less mad, and more human.
Typical Situations:
Start-ups optimising the model while growing revenue.
Small, capable team hitting complexity through growth.
A successful niche SME looking to scale and diversify.
What this Often Feels Like:
Swimming against convention and consensus.
Too much to do, competing demands for attention.
Clear purpose, unclear next steps.
WORKING TOGETHER
Every project is unique. I don’t sell off-the-shelf packages; the work is shaped by our Explore phase and what we learn together. If it doesn’t serve the goal, it won’t make the plan. That said, as a foundation in any work, I aim to deliver these core outcomes:
Clarity - better choices, identify the meaningful, tune out distractions.
Momentum - practical next steps and enduring enthusiasm to do them.
Capacity - stronger leadership, better hiring, healthier culture.
Reach - useful introductions to talent, partners and capital.
What Never Changes are the Core Principles:
No expectations. Start small, agree scope, and earn the right to continue. No tie-ins. End well when the valuable work is done.
Learn more about how projects are structured to support you as you…
Working with Richard has been invaluable.
As the Founder and CEO of MindMatters Clinic, I had early success but needed guidance from someone with real experience to help me navigate the next stage of growth. Working with Richard has been invaluable. His curious, exploratory style, combined with his impressive business background, makes him both approachable and insightful. Richard’s helped me gain clarity on operations, strategy, and my vision for the company, as well as giving me personal clarity as a leader. His input has been a reliable source of support, and the guidance provided has helped me to lay a foundation for future growth and the longer-term success of the business.
- Louise, MindMatters
In your corner for the long haul
I aim to be your long term external ally, an asset when needed and in the background when not. As your business shifts, the support changes with it.
RICHARD WARREN
I’ve lived the founder journey end-to-end.
From a spare room in the UK to a multinational SME across the UK/US/EU/NZ, building a team of 80 and achieving US$2.3m annual profit.
I hold a MSc Business & Organisational Psychology, Executive Coach accreditation, and Certified Membership of the Institute of Directors (NZ).
What that means for you:
Practical judgement, strong talent instincts, and a network of doers.
I am endlessly curious about people, excited by great ideas and their translation into the real world.
Supporting great people doing great work is deeply satisfying - helping them get further, faster, and with fewer wrong turns, while enjoying it.
A Plain Point of View
We’re in a time of unusual risk and real opportunity. Large organisations often optimise for the status quo, protecting a playing field skewed towards them. The best future depends on challengers and innovators making rapid progress through wise choices, great habits and a community of people invested in their outcome.
My job is to support clear thinking, bring generative challenge, and make introductions that actually help.
Success is leaving a team clear in their purpose, energised, taking confidence and momentum into their next stage.
LET’S TALK
Everything begins with a conversation, whether it becomes a working relationship, or remains simply a chance to learn something new.