About Richard Fenning
Richard Fenning is a partner at Manchester Square Partners, a boutique firm specializing in leadership, succession, and career management. He acts as a sounding board and adviser to senior leaders managing their organizations through complex issues or planning their own professional futures.
Richard has spent 35 years in professional services, principally with the risk consulting firm, Control Risks. He was Global CEO for 14 years until 2019, leading the firm through a period of significant international expansion and an innovative management buy-out in 2016. During this time, Richard lived and worked in the UK, Australia, Japan, Singapore, and the United States and has advised numerous global corporations on the impact of geopolitical uncertainty and high-stakes problem solving, often in volatile parts of the world. He is also a non-executive director of infrastructure consultancy, Steer Group.
Richard is the author of What On Earth Can Go Wrong, published by Eye Books in 2021. He is a Meyler Campbell qualified coach.
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What on Earth Can Go Wrong: Tales from the Risk Business
Richard Fenning has spent three decades advising multinational companies on volatile geopolitics and severe security crises. He was CEO of the British firm Control Risks for 14 years.
His career coincided with the glory years of globalization, the rise of China, the tumult of the Middle East wars, a new vicious form of terrorism, the transforming impact of digital technology, and America’s retreat from leadership.
Offering him a rare insight into what happens when people and organizations come under enormous stress, dispelled any illusions that the world is ordered, predictable, or fair. But amid the chaos and upheaval, he also found humanity and humour.
In a whirlwind tour that takes us from the battlefields of Iraq to the back streets of Bogotà, from the steamy Niger delta to the chill of Putin’s Moscow, he looks back with wit and insight on the people and places he has got to know, while also offering some timely thoughts about the relationship between risk and danger in a terrifyingly changeable world.
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