Shola Richards

Categories: Best-selling Authors | Motivation | Teamwork | Diversity & Inclusion | 
Leadership

Nicknamed "Brother Teresa", Shola Richards is a best-selling author, suicide survivor and exponent of the Ubuntu philosophy, preached by Nelson Mandela, which mission is to change the world based on how we treat each other at work. 

His life’s mission is an ambitious one: To end generations of professional suffering, simply by changing how we treat each other at work. Shola Richards is an advocate, a one-man counsel, and a humanitarian hardwired for positivity, who (ironically) speaks, coaches, consults, and authors books on the shadowy, often underground, and underestimated subject of workplace bullying, a pernicious reality that, when overlooked, corrodes trust, distorts communication, and ultimately usurps equity from the bottom line by using up a company’s most valuable resource: its people.

Shola Richards' approach is to open eyes to the staggering price we pay for normalized, toxic behavior, because we can’t address what we don’t see. His result is people equipped with tangible, doable solutions because we can’t accomplish what we can’t make actionable. His conviction is that everyone deserves a healthy work environment because the quality and meaning of our work suffers when we don't.

Through his books, 'Go Together' and 'Making Work Work' and featured articles that have reached readers in over 160 countries, and through his presentations with institutions that range from Silicon Valley businesses to the Department of Homeland Security, Shola Richards is spearheading a timely revolution that teaches us how to protect the professionalism of our company cultures, the preciousness of our time, the strength of our talents, the dignity of ourselves, and the mutual respect of one another.

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