Richard Rivera, MSW President of Renew & Redesign Consulting has served as coach, facilitator, strategist, and leadership developer to his client organizations for over three decades. He brings a restorative healing centered approach to all his work.

As a coach, Rich helps leaders identify root causes and to seek practical solutions to the challenges that they face. As a facilitator, Rich has a gift for moving groups through “stuck” places and introduces people centered restorative practices to create a relational field that supports cultures of resilience, repair, and engagement. As a compassionate strategist Rich, specializes in helping teams to co-design processes that lead to strategic thinking, shared visioning, and action planning. As a leadership developer Rich, focuses on building the capacity of leaders to adapt to changing environments.

Rich serves as leadership coach for an Executive Director Round Table Circle. He currently serves as facilitator/leadership coach for the New York Community Trust Leadership Fellows Program at the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, offering workshops such as, “Leading in Complex Times”, Curating a Culture of Belonging and Performance”, and “Self-Leadership for Optimum Results”. Rich also teaches “Participatory Leadership Practices at the co-lab, NYU Wagner School of Public Service.

Rich has led organizational change and leadership conversations with larger organizations such as Good Shepherd Services, the Guttmacher Institute, the Rochester Foundation, and Phipps Neighborhood. He has also served as consultant to several non-profit collaborations and to a collective impact project in Bushwick, New York.

Richard has provided organizational change and strategy services to larger organizations, including Montefiore and Bellevue Hospitals, Verizon, Big Brothers and Big Sisters National and the Hispanic Federation.

Mr. Rivera received his M.S.W. degree from Columbia University, School of Social Work.