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Richard Cohen
Founder and CEO

Driving measurable transformation across healthcare, public sector, and financial services.

Richard is an accomplished transformation leader and founder of a specialist consultancy with over 20 years’ experience delivering large-scale change across healthcare, public services, and regulated industries. He acts as a strategic advisor to boards, government bodies, and global firms on operating models, commissioning reform, digital enablement, and financial turnaround.

He is recognised for leading nationally significant programmes spanning NHS commissioning reform, pandemic response, service redesign, and financial recovery. His work has achieved measurable outcomes — from multi-million-pound cost improvements and accelerated digital adoption to enhanced patient, citizen, and customer experiences.

Richard combines strategic vision with disciplined delivery, taking a practical, data-driven, and collaborative approach that secures stakeholder buy-in and embeds sustainable results.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Strategic Operating Model Design

  • Healthcare & Public Service Transformation

  • Life Sciences & Diagnostics Strategy

  • Programme Delivery & PMO Leadership

  • Digital & Data-Enabled Service Redesign

  • Business Case Development & Financial Modelling

  • AI Readiness & System Optimisation

  • Stakeholder Engagement & C-Suite Advisory

Career Highlights

  • Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB and ICS – Delivered assurance reviews of efficiency programmes, redesigned PMO/tools, led operating model design, developed a transformation roadmap.

  • COVID-19 Diagnostics Response: Established governance and PMO for UKHSA/DHSC’s national testing pipeline, embedding structures to onboard labs at scale and leading the TOM for COVID diagnostics.

  • MHRA – Innovative Devices Access Pathway: Designed the full financial and activity model for a pioneering regulatory pathway, enabling faster patient access to innovative medical technologies.

  • Leeds Clinical Commissioning Groups: ‘One Voice’ Operating Model Design - Supported the three CCGs in undertaking an organisation design exercise to develop the design for a Strategic Commissioning Model (‘One Voice’) that supports a shift to population health management.

Education

  • BSc (Hons) Accounting & Finance

  • PGCE, Secondary Education (Business/ICT)

  • PRINCE2 & MSP (Experienced Practitioner)

Outside of Work

Richard is passionate about healthcare innovation and personal development. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, gardening, strength training, travelling, and continually refining his cooking skills.

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