Richard Reeves

Richard Reeves is a strategy consultant, business analyst and writer. Following a career spanning academia, central government, business, the non-profit sector and the media. Richard is now the co-founder of Intelligence Agency, an ideas consultancy, and has worked with a wide range of other organisations on corporate strategy and organisational change. He is also a thought leader for Penna., teaches on the Senior Executive Programme at London Business School and is a Trustee of the RSA

Richard is a columnist for Management Today and an essayist for the New Statesman. He speaks frequently on a broad range of topics including the future of work, technology, the war for talent, motivation, diversity, working time and leadership. He has recently published a report on wellbeing for the New Economics Foundation, is editing a book on the politics of progress for the Social Market Foundation and completing a doctorate on the "political economy of happiness" at the University of Warwick

Richard is the author of the much-publicised Happy Mondays putting the pleasure back into work, nominated as a Sunday Times business book of the week, as well as a number of research papers for the Work Foundation " where he was previously director of research and head of consultancy " on working time, technology and gender equality.

In the first year of the Labour Government, Richard worked a principal policy adviser to the Minister for Welfare Reform and has also been a research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, one of the UK's premier think-tanks, as well as a researcher at the University of London.