Biographical notes
Richard Bevan was educated at Oxford University and Manchester Business School. After early experience in manufacturing management, he worked for Towers Perrin (now Towers Watson) in Europe, Australia, and the US, including five years leading the firm’s worldwide communication consulting practice.
In 1995, he started his own firm, C2K Consulting, advising clients on organizational communication and change management. He was also an external faculty member for the University of Washington Executive MBA program, where he developed and taught a course in managing change. The approaches that he has developed and applied as a leader, consultant, and educator have provided the framework for Changemaking.
Richard Bevan lives in Seattle. In addition to his family, his non-business interests include cooking, sailing, biking, tennis, travel, reading, and gardening. In 2010, he managed to combine more than half of these pursuits in a sailing trip across the Atlantic Ocean from St. Lucia to the Azores in which he was responsible for provisioning and cooking. As well as Changemaking and the book that resulted from that voyage, The Galley Slave’s Handbook, he has published a wide variety of articles, mostly on change-related topics.
He has been a regular speaker at forums such as the Conference Board and International Association of Business Communicators (of which he is an accredited member). He currently serves on the Board of Advisors for ROI Communication and as strategic communication advisor for Elliott Avenue Associates.