Full Name
Richard Coughlan, Ph.D.
Company
University of Richmond, Robins School of Business
Speaker Bio
Richard Coughlan is an award-winning educator, keynote speaker, and facilitator who designs and delivers leadership development programs for some of the world’s largest firms. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Management and Faculty Director for Executive Education at the University of Richmond, where he offers courses on consulting, negotiations, and managerial decision-making to audiences ranging from undergraduates to senior executives.
Professor Coughlan, who earned the University’s Distinguished Educator Award in 2004, was more recently named Outstanding Faculty Member by the MBA Class of 2022 and received the 2023-2024 Robins School of Business Teaching Award. In 2024, he was appointed to a three-year term as The Paul Clikeman Teaching Fellow, a position named after a former Robins School faculty colleague with whom he had worked closely. In this role, Coughlan works with other faculty to promote an ongoing conversation on the importance of teaching and learning.
Richard joined the faculty at Richmond in 1998 after completing both an MBA and Ph.D. in judgment and decision making at the University of Arizona. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. Prior to graduate school, he spent nearly five years in the hotel industry, culminating with a position on the management team at The Pebble Beach Resorts in California, where he negotiated multimillion dollar event contracts with clients including Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems.
Coughlan currently serves as chairman of the board of directors at Goodwill of Central and Coastal Virginia, a non-profit with 1100 associates and an annual budget of $84M. He previously served as President of Association for Corporate Growth (Richmond) and was a founding member of the board at InnerWill Leadership Institute. Today, he works as an advisor and facilitator to leaders and emerging leaders at dozens of large and middle market firms.
Professor Coughlan, who earned the University’s Distinguished Educator Award in 2004, was more recently named Outstanding Faculty Member by the MBA Class of 2022 and received the 2023-2024 Robins School of Business Teaching Award. In 2024, he was appointed to a three-year term as The Paul Clikeman Teaching Fellow, a position named after a former Robins School faculty colleague with whom he had worked closely. In this role, Coughlan works with other faculty to promote an ongoing conversation on the importance of teaching and learning.
Richard joined the faculty at Richmond in 1998 after completing both an MBA and Ph.D. in judgment and decision making at the University of Arizona. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. Prior to graduate school, he spent nearly five years in the hotel industry, culminating with a position on the management team at The Pebble Beach Resorts in California, where he negotiated multimillion dollar event contracts with clients including Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems.
Coughlan currently serves as chairman of the board of directors at Goodwill of Central and Coastal Virginia, a non-profit with 1100 associates and an annual budget of $84M. He previously served as President of Association for Corporate Growth (Richmond) and was a founding member of the board at InnerWill Leadership Institute. Today, he works as an advisor and facilitator to leaders and emerging leaders at dozens of large and middle market firms.
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