Leading in turbulent times is challenging. Resilience is one trait leaders build that makes them negotiate through difficult situations. Building on the concept of Resilience, Rtd. Colonel Richard Westley OBE, MC, of the British Army trains on how to 'take the blow', handle pressure, maintain team harmony and tackle adversity.

A global trainer to global business and organisations, Richard majors on building, maintaining , training and leading  teams, with emphasis on “followership” and ethos and values in teams.  He has worked extensively with major corporate companies both during and since his retirement from the British Army, including Glaxo Smith Kline, Lloyds Bank, the Housing Executive, UK Sport and the Great Britain Yachting Team, the English Rugby Football Union and Centrica. His book “Operation Insanity” which documents the UN operation in Gorazde was published in 2016and is the number one in the Former Yugoslavia best sellers list.

He is now the Global Strategic Advisor to Inspirational Development Group, partnered with the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, which provides ethics and values based performance and development training solutions globally. He is also an associate of The Unforgiving Minute, a company owned by John Steele, which focuses on improving team and individual performance in high pressure arenas.

Richard commanded soldiers on operations at every rank from Second Lieutenant to Colonel in environments as disparate as Northern Ireland, Albania, Afghanistan, Cote d’Ivoire and the Balkans.  In 1995 as part of the UN peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and surrounded by the advancing Bosnian Serb Army in the exposed enclave of Gorazde, his company fought the Serbs and prevented the fall of the Town, saving the people from the fate of neighbouring Srebrenica. More his leadership and gallantry he was awarded the Military Cross.