Richard Samuel

Background

About Richard Samuel

With 15 years of leadership experience in the UK, India, Burundi, South Africa and EU countries. Richard has been privileged to lead teams, manage operations of large residential centre, events planning, hospitality, fundraising, maintenance, project managements, train teams, develop and implement programmes, and also coach leaders. Richard is Recognised for his unique combination of communication skills and strategic leadership styles, he has always been drawn to organisations wanting to grow. RELEVANT EXPERIENCE OPERATIONS MANAGER AND INTERIM LEADER 08/2012 - 07/2020 YWAM NI Ltd, Northern Ireland, UK Co-Director of Sarayu Properties Ltd 2021 - Present York, England, UK Decision Maker Asylum Operation 2022 - Present Home Office, UK LIFE COACH AND TRAINER 07/2020 - present UK LEAD PROGRAMME DEVELOPER 01/2009 - 12/2010 Catalyst India, Delhi, India SKILLS Leadership Operations and project management Multilingual English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu Microsoft Suite Budgeting & forecasting Decision-making & delegation Conflict Management Strategic Planning Collaboration & Teamwork Mentoring & Motivation EDUCATION OCN COMMUNITY INTERPRETER - LEVEL 4 - 2022 Belfast, Northern Ireland Life Coach - 2020 International Coach Federation certification - in process Management and Leadership: Planning Your Personal Development Course - 2018 Open University Training School - 2010 YWAM, Toronto, Canada LEARNING & Volunteering trip - 2006 South Africa & South India Bachelor of Computer Application - 2005 Kurukshetra University, India STRENGTHS BY GALLUP CLIFTONSTRENGTHS Relator | Responsibility | Achiever | Activator | Developer Lead With Executing CliftonStrengths themes: Leaders with dominant strength in the Executing domain know how to make things happen. When you need someone to implement a solution, these are the people who will work tirelessly to get it done. Leaders with the strength to execute have the ability to "catch" an idea and make it a reality.