Profile picture for user richarddbbrown
Richard D.B. Brown
Recruitment Manager
TPS Consult Ltd

After University joined Kodak as a graduate systems engineer and then organisation and methods engineer. After 8 years joined BOC Gases Division and moved into the personnel department as OD Consultant and then Personnel Systems Manager. Later joined Sperry Univac as HR manager for region covering UK, USSR, Iran, and Middle East, South Africa. Promoted as Compensation and Benefits manager for International Division. Transferred to US for six months before promotion to Regional HR Director based in Rome Italy with responsibilities for Southern Europe - Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal.

On reorganisation joined Ambrosetti, strategy management consultants based in Milan. Brought in Dr Gillian Stamp to work on a big programme with Montedison, the large Italian multinational company.

After 4 years returned to UK to establish a consultancy business focused on the Construction Industry. Led a research project to examine the comparative approached to the senior executives of Construction companies in UK, France and Germany. After 3 years went as independent consultant focusing on UK organisational development programme called Investors in People. Now working as interim HR manager on a variety of projects including the West Coast Route Modernisation programme, a $10bn project to upgrade the main rail route from London to Glasgow and Edinburgh. Currently working for TPS, an engineering design consultancy and a subsidiary of Carillion Plc, a UK $6bn construction services company.

He is the author of over 25 articles that explore a range of HR issues through the prism of Jaques and Brown's ideas.

Degrees and certifications

  • BSc - Production Technology - Brunel University, London, United Kingdom
  • Chartered member - Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (MCIPD)

Contact Info

Major organizations and consulting firms that provide Requisite Organization-based services

A global association of academics, managers, and consultants that focuses on spreading RO implementation practices and encouraging their use
Dr. Gerry Kraines, the firms principal, combines Harry Levinson's leadership frameworks with Elliott Jaques's Requisite Organization. He worked closely with Jaques over many years, has trained more managers in these methods than anyone else in the field, and has developed a comprehensive RO-based software for client firms.
Ron Capelle is unique in his multiple professional certifications, his implementation of RO concepts through well designed organization development methods, and his research documenting the effectiveness of his firm's interventions
Former RO-experienced CEO, Ron Harding, provides coaching to CEOs of start-ups and small and medium-size companies that are exploring their own use of RO concepts.  His role is limited, temporary and coordinated with the RO-based consultant working with the organization
Founded by Gillian Stamp, one of Jaques's colleagues at Brunel, the firm modified Jaques;s work-levels, developed the Career Path Appreciation method, and has grown to several hundred certified assessors in aligned consulting firms world-wide recently expanding to include organization design
Requisite Organization International Institute distributes Elliott Jaques's books, papers, and videos and provides RO-based training to client organizations