Specialising in behaviour and diversity, Richard Daniel Curtis is one of the leading behaviour experts in the UK and heavily sought after as a conference chair and keynote speaker.  With a background in mental health wards, as well as teaching, the award-winning author is passionate about helping others learn from his experience.

Often booked to speak about or chair conferences on Diversity, Richard has a wide range of experience in topics, such as working with different generations, gender, disability and even mental health.

Richard is a lively and energetic character, who will educate, whilst at the same time, in his unique friendly manner, challenge some of his audience's beliefs in order to help them to be able to walk away ready to change their situation.  Any presentation from Richard provokes deep thought and change, pulling at heart-strings and making his audience laugh, all in the space of a few minutes.

He is the CEO of The Mentoring School, who deliver courses such as the National Apprentice Mentoring Qualification and the National Workplace Mentoring Qualification to help businesses ensure they get the most out of their teams. 

National Mentoring Day was set up to celebrate, inspire and educate and in October 2017 the school set up their first online conference featuring inspirational stories from the world of mentoring. Richard hosted the event which included input from the 2016 winner of The Apprentice, Alana Spencer, the very first Apprentice winner Tim Campbell MBE and Cherie Blair CBE QC. 

The School runs a multi-award winning service ACT for Mental Health, an accreditation scheme for employers for mental health provision for staff.  In addition, the team also provide training for a volunteer working with refugees for every person they train.  The team also worked with the Home Office on preparing training for local authorities as part of the Syrian Resettlement Programme.

Richard is a prolific author and has given social commentary on television, radio, newspapers and in many other publications.  He writes regularly for both the Huffington Post and also FE News.

Richard has an international reputation for seeing beyond the behaviour people are displaying, identifying what it means, and how to change it.  As a consultant, Richard leads behavioural change in groups, as well as providing 1:1 mentoring for entrepreneurs and leaders.

He is passionate about helping change the world we live in and founder of expert special needs services, The Root Of It (winner of Best New Business at the National Entrepreneurs Convention 2014 and Gold Award at the Scoot Headline Awards 2015), he inspires thousands of people to change the way they address behaviour.

Richard lives in Southampton with his girlfriend and their baby son.  He is just starting a PhD based on the assessments of insecurity and social problems named after him.

Richard has gained a reputation as a media celebrity, appearing on television, radio, podcasts and in publications in four continents.  Please contact us to discuss any bespoke requirements for Richard.