Richard Hodge

Richard Hodge is a dynamic business leader with a gift for instructional design and facilitating interactive business discussions. Richard is co-author of the book, The Mind of the Customer: How the World’s Leading Sales Forces Accelerate their Customer’s Success. In writing this book, Richard incorporated his years of experience working in various fields developing and marketing intellectual capital. He is also co-author of a research report on how leading corporations are developing their next generation of leaders: “5 Truths and a Lie.”  He has mastered remote, leader-led design practices and frequently facilitates executive and senior management meetings.

Twenty- five or so years ago Richard founded the Real Learning Company and served as its president and CEO. He focused his primary energies on the development of new breakthrough learning systems and the company’s development of provocative thought leadership in the sales, management and leadership areas.

Richard has led his team in developing new learning programs for clients such as American Express, Oracle, Bristol-Myers Squib, DaimlerChrysler, Lexus, Net App, Symantec, Time Warner, Toyota, University of Phoenix and UPS.

His career has taken him across industries and all levels of management and leadership. His early career was spent with AT&T and Occidental Petroleum. Richard then entered the business software arena and held various executive level positions with leading organizations such as Foresight Systems, United Computing Systems and Execucom. During this period, Richard additionally sat as a director on a variety of boards around the United States. Prior to founding the Real Learning Company Richard worked with an elite team to acquire, reorganize and turn around several software and hardware global organizations as an arm of Novell.

Over the past several years he has become closely involved with several corporate leaders to help them drive strategic change. His diverse background and in-depth business knowledge allows him to bring a broad perspective to these leaders and assist in the implementation.

Richard holds an MBA and a BS in Organizational Design from the University of Southern California.