Richard Hadden is a leadership and management consultant with a focus on creating a great place to work. He is co-author of Contented Cows Give Better Milk: The Plain Truth About Employee Relations and Your Bottom Line, Richard Hadden also writes a nationally syndicated column entitled People and Profits.

Richard Hadden has a Master of Business Administration in International Business from The University of North Florida, Jacksonville and a Bachelor of Science in Management from Jacksonville University.

Richard Hadden was a manager for a large savings and loan association in the 1980’s. He learned computer programming and worked as a programmer and systems analyst in the field of multi-user microcomputer software, before the advent of PC’s. Richard Hadden was also Director of Product Development for a software house in North Florida before starting his own software consulting business in 1986. While consulting, he taught software design, principles of management, and international economics at Jacksonville University from 1988-1991.

Since 1990 Richard Hadden has delivered keynote presentations and training programs for more than 700 audiences throughout North America, Europe, and Australia. In 2000, he received the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation from the National Speakers Association; the highest earned designation in the speaking profession.

Richard Hadden has appeared on CNN and MSNBC, and his work has been featured in BusinessWeek, Entrepreneur, and Inc. magazines, as well as many trade and professional publications. Richard Hadden is also a regular contributor to Workforce Management magazine and Workforce Online.