Richard Eaton

Senior Consultant

Richard brings over 25 years of experience helping leaders, teams and organizations achieve breakthrough results.

In addition to his coaching work, Richard serves as a team, leadership, and organizational development consultant. His executive coaching practice is dedicated to building leadership capacity and impact, particularly during crucial transition periods and when undertaking challenging new assignments.

Richard helps clients access untapped potential and make powerful change happen. Through his coaching, clients innovate, identify limiting beliefs, blind spots and behaviors, leverage their strengths, build strategic alignment, and develop results-focused communication and action plans that activate personal and organizational growth. His consulting, facilitation, and design work are focused on creating deeply engaging team processes that yield innovation, enhance leadership capacity, create coach-able moments, and build relationships that create breakthrough performance.

Richard received a BA from Middlebury College, graduating Cum Laude.

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EXPERIENCE

Richard Eaton is a Senior Consultant and executive coach with FMG Leading, a team of advisors and consultants that help executive leaders and their teams achieve breakthrough results at the intersection of humanity and high performance. Richard brings over 25 years of experience helping leaders, teams and organizations achieve breakthrough results. In addition to his coaching work, he serves as a team, leadership, and organizational development consultant. Richard's executive coaching practice is dedicated to building leadership capacity and impact, particularly during crucial transition periods and when undertaking challenging new assignments.

Richard helps clients access untapped potential and make powerful change happen. Through his coaching, clients innovate, identify limiting beliefs, blind spots and behaviors, leverage their strengths, build strategic alignment, and develop results-focused communication and action plans that activate personal and organizational growth and development. His consulting, facilitation, and design work are focused on creating deeply engaging team processes that yield innovation, enhance leadership capacity, create coach-able moments, and build relationships that result in enabled networks – all designed to create breakthrough results.

Richard’s clients comment that he brings “insights, tools, well-packed questions and relevant perspectives drawn from his years of experience” allowing him to “bridge the theory of leading people and organizations with the practice of actually doing it on a day-to-day basis.”

A sampling of Richard’s Fortune 500, boutique, and start up clients include: Argos Scientific, Broad Branch Advisors, Center for Creative Leadership, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Colgate-Palmolive, DaVita, Defense Intelligence Agency, Deloitte, EH&E, Executive Leadership Council, Harvard Business School, Hasbro, Go Trashy, International Securities Exchange, Life is Good, Linkage, MIT Sloan Executive Education, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, Rosen’s Diversified, Seattle Children’s, T3 Micro, Tango Therapeutics, and Trew Gear.

In addition to founding two private firms, Richard’s career experience includes Procter & Gamble, Mintz & Hoke and Cabot Advertising, and Staples, The Office Superstore, where he served as the founding Director of Marketing.

MEDIA AND PUBLICATIONS

Richard has been featured in various high-profile media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Training Magazine, Chief Learning Officer Magazine and Fortune Magazine. He is the author of the LinkedIn series Tools You Can Use for Leaders which includes articles such as: “How Great Leaders Navigate Hard Conversations”, “Building Trust in Turbulent Times: A Tool to Help You Become the Leader Others Want to Follow”, and “You Can’t Force Change: How to Align Your Team Around Successful Change Efforts”.

ADDITIONAL PRACTICE AREAS

Richard is the Founder and Chief Energizing Officer of Leapfrog Innovations, Inc. In addition to his role leading Leapfrog Innovations and his work with FMG Leading, he serves as an executive leadership coach for MIT Sloan Executive Education and the University of Oregon Lundquist School of Business Executive MBA program.

Richard is also deeply involved in his community, where he serves as an executive leadership coach for non-profit leaders. A sample of his pro bono clients includes: Big Brothers Big Sisters, Habitat for Humanity, Impact Northwest, Social Venture Partners, Self Enhancement, Inc., Hacienda CDC, and Wayfinding Academy.

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS

Richard received a BA from Middlebury College, graduating Cum Laude. He is certified in the Wisdom Leading™ Executive Coaching process. Assessment certifications include: FMG Leadership Insights 360 and Team Insights, Hogan Leadership Forecast Series, CCL Benchmark360, ESCI360 and the LVI360. With individual leaders and team clients, he regularly utilizes the Enneagram, FIRO-B, Entrepreneurial Core Characteristics Profile, and DiSC psychometric instruments.

PERSONAL

Richard is a father of three, and lives in Portland, OR. He is an award-winning painter, a ceramic artist, a pickleball fanatic, lover of the outdoors, and an accredited Reiki Master.

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