Richard Clissold-Vasey is a business transformation leader focused on one question: how do organisations build climate and resource realities into the way they actually plan, invest and operate?
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He works with Boards, CEOs, Chief Strategy Officers and sustainability leaders to integrate climate into strategy, operating models, financial planning and business transformation, so it becomes part of core decision making rather than a parallel workstream. The focus is on changing how decisions are made and delivered so climate becomes part of the core business plan, shaping growth choices, investment priorities and transformation roadmaps.
​Richard brings more than three decades of experience delivering complex strategy, digital and operational transformation. He has led global change portfolios, built enterprise programme capability and helped leadership teams turn strategy into measurable commercial outcomes. That background shapes a business-first approach to the climate transition, grounded in how organisations really make decisions, allocate capital and deliver change.
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His current work centres on Integrated Value Planning, a framework that connects strategy, finance and sustainability into a single planning system. It helps organisations identify climate-driven risks and opportunities, prioritise investment, and produce credible transition plans that are actionable and governed for delivery. The aim is practical, funded transition that strengthens resilience, unlocks new value and meets regulatory expectations.​
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Richard works on an impact-first basis, collaborating with organisations and industry groups to test practical approaches, develop diagnostics and share tools that make climate-integrated planning easier to implement.​ He is motivated by a simple belief: businesses will move faster on climate when it is clearly linked to performance, competitiveness and long-term value.
TESTIMONIALS
Richard’s greatest strengths are in developing and activating strategy, leading transformation and driving behaviour change. He is highly skilled at breaking down complex challenges into practical steps and actions - he sees the bigger picture, but also grasps the detail. He does all this in a highly collaborative, motivating and engaging way.
Richard is a superb change agent. Not only does his have the planning and organisational skills needed to deliver complex organisational and digital transformation programmes, but he role models the leadership skills, capabilities and values that ensure that people go with him.
An outstanding operational and business transformation leader.
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DARREN BHATTACHARY, CEO THE SOCIAL AGENCY
A fantastic transformation partner for CEOs. Richard is highly skilled at working with senior stakeholders across the organisation to define strategy and deliver complex, multi-stream programmes to generate better commercials outcomes.
EVE DIXON, GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION DIRECTOR, KANTAR