Dr Richard Norris DVM, MRCVS, CertSAM, CertVOphthal, CMgt, MBA

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Dr Richard Norris Quick Facts

Main Areas: Self-leadership, Business Development Strategy
Best Sellers: Hoof it! 7 Key Lessons on Your Journey of Success, Business Expert Guide to...Small Business Success
Career Focus: Speaker (prefer the name "Messenger"), Author, Executive Coach
Affiliation: CIPD, B1G1, YPN Companies, Leadcap, Leaders Cafe

From a competitive swimmer to a veterinarian delivering calves and doing eyelid surgery on leopards to an army officer responsible for security and animal welfare to a post-grad student in ophthalmology, to an MBA to unemployed to an award-winning business coach to business development strategist to applauded speaker (I prefer the term Messenger or Insp-orator - ask me why later), writer and author, I can relate to you, your team and to your organization.

Because of my dynamic and diverse success journey I am able to establish rapport quickly and effectively with any audience.

Now in third person, Richard is renowned for his intensity, his integrity, his impact and his insight in self-leadership. He has lived it so he can share it and impart a legacy of transformation in your people.

Whether an interview, keynote, workshop or 1-2-1 it turns out Richard has a way to distill practical messages into engaging stories and examples that entertain, educate and elicit results.

Richard's published articles are growing globally; his new book, Hoof it! 7 Key Lessons on Your Journey of Success is appealing to all who pick it up; he is co-editing the first in a series of books for Ask the Experts - a book on Lessons from the Recession for Ask the Experts and has written a chapter on dynamic business development for The Business Experts Guide to Small Business Success.

Now for some Key Facts:

A competitive swimmer 23 years training 4.5 hours/day, 6 days/week swimming >69,000 metres/week!
11 years university leading to a degree in veterinary medicine, two post-graduate qualifications in internal medicine and opthalmology and an MBA.
Put myself through my 6 year veterinary degree whilst holding a part-time job and graduated owing no one anything (other than my parents for their belief in me).
Access to > 151,000 years of business success experience and a direct network of >7,000 so... my network is your network. Just ask.
Invested > £195,000 in my development so far and still counting.
Been unemployed 3 times with the longest period being 18 months post 9/11 which happened 3 days before my MBA and led to my new career finishing before I started.
Coached several hundred businesses in one way shape or form and even franchised one client in 11 months and sold rights to 100 (and the business plan accepted by the bank was a mindmap!).
Make the world's best banana and chocolate chip muffin!

My Life's Purpose

In one word...Transformation.

My Top 5 Values:

Integrity - live it

Family - love it

Excellence - acheive it

Generosity - give it

Gratitude - show it

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Dr Richard Norris

When the solution is simple, God is answering. Einstein

Only a life lived serving others is a life worthwhile. Einstein

A healthy body is a healthy mind. John Norris

There's no such word as "can't". John Norris

Knowing and not doing is the same as not knowing. So do! Richard Norris

Change is inevitable; growth is optional. Richard Norris

Leadership begins with you. You cannot be a great leader until you have learned to lead yourself well. Richard Norris

Getting Started With Dr Richard Norris

The best way to start learning about me is to understand where I am coming from and the benefits of our relationship. So...in short…award-winning franchisee, business coach and author.

It bit more insight...

*Veterinarian 12 years. Benefit - good in an emergency

*Army officer. Benefit - able to take charge

*University student 11 years. Benefit - think knows what works

*5 degrees. Benefit - believes knows what works

* Business owner. Benefit - knows what doesn't work and what works

*Competitive swimmer for 23 years. Benefit - self-disciplined

*Endorphin junkie. Benefit - endurance

*Unemployed 3 times - longest period 18 months after 9/11. Benefit - patience

* Author of "Hoof it! 7 Key lessons on Your Journey of Success - now on 3rd book. Benefit - simple impactful messages

*Writer for blogs and magazines around the globe. Benefit - reach

*Award-winning business and executive coach(more than 299 clients). Benefit - accountability

*Licensor Business development strategist. Benefit - ideas that zag

*Sought-after radio show guest. Benefit - enlightening

*Messenger (aka speaker). Benefit - deliver

*Legacy coach. Benefit - success

*Networked - Benefit - yours

*Faith-led family man. Benefit - centred

Overall benefit - empathic self-leadership

If you are seeking a serendipitous speaker, a challenging coach, an awesome author, a witty writer or a creative consultant, you can head over to my website for further information or check out some videos on Youtube (Channel - DrRichardNorris) or just contact me.

At the least our first conversation is complimentary. How else will we truly to get to know one another?!