Richard Clissold-Vasey, known as Richard CV, is a business transformation leader advancing the integration of climate into enterprise strategy and planning.
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With more than three decades of experience as a COO, executive advisor and transformation leader, he has led complex business and digital change across global, acquisitive and private equity-backed environments. His work has focused on strengthening commercial and operational performance, redesigning operating models and translating strategy into disciplined execution.
Richard now concentrates on the evolution of climate-integrated strategic planning, embedding climate and natural system variables into capital allocation, financial planning and enterprise transformation.
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He is the creator of the Integrated Value Planning Framework, a structured approach that integrates greenhouse gas emissions, nature, water and critical resource constraints into the core decision-making architecture of the firm. The objective is not to add another sustainability layer, but to strengthen resilience, improve trade-offs and unlock long-term enterprise value in a world shaped by transition pressures and resource constraints.
He collaborates with Boards, CEOs, CFOs, Strategy Directors and Chief Sustainability Officers who recognise that climate integration requires changes to planning cycles, governance, incentives and operating models, not just targets and disclosures.
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His perspective is shaped by practical experience delivering change in constrained environments; approaching climate integration as a management discipline, grounded in enterprise design and execution capability.
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Richard works on an impact-first basis, sharing thought leadership, guidance and tools, and collaborating with organisations and industry groups to test practical approaches.​ He is motivated by a simple belief: businesses will move faster on climate when it is clearly linked to performance, competitiveness and long-term value. Advisory support is available for organisations seeking to apply or test climate-integrated planning in practice.
Testimonials
Richard’s greatest strengths are in developing and activating strategy, leading transformation and driving behaviour change. He is highly skilled at breaking down complex challenges into practical steps and actions - he sees the bigger picture, but also grasps the detail. He does all this in a highly collaborative, motivating and engaging way.
Richard is a superb change agent. Not only does his have the planning and organisational skills needed to deliver complex organisational and digital transformation programmes, but he role models the leadership skills, capabilities and values that ensure that people go with him.
An outstanding operational and business transformation leader.
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DARREN BHATTACHARY, CEO THE SOCIAL AGENCY
A fantastic transformation partner for CEOs. Richard is highly skilled at working with senior stakeholders across the organisation to define strategy and deliver complex, multi-stream programmes to generate better commercials outcomes.
EVE DIXON, GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION DIRECTOR, KANTAR