Rick James is an organisational change specialist with more than 30 years’ experience working with over 100 NGOs in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe. After working for a Honduran NGO for four years, he completed an MBA in the UK before joining INTRAC at its inception after 1992. Rick has trained, consulted, researched and written extensively on NGO capacity building and organisational development (OD) issues – his most recent book is Consulting for Change. He believes strongly in the importance of client ownership and integrating the emotional and spiritual dimensions in change. His main areas of specialism include:

  • Organisational change
  • Leadership coaching and transition
  • Formation of OD consultants
  • Working with faith in development
  • Monitoring and evaluating capacity buildingRick spent 10 years in Malawi with INTRAC, where he trained a team of Malawian OD consultants, facilitated change with NGO support organisations, undertook research into leadership change issues and consulted for international NGOs on the monitoring and evaluation of capacity building. He has a PhD in NGO Management and is a Senior Teaching Fellow at CASS Business School, City University, London.

Related Projects

Consultants for Change programme

Longitudinal Evaluation of EveryChild’s Responsible Exit Process

Civil Society Support Programme Ethiopia

Peer Learning Programme for small and diaspora organisations

Related Posts

08.12.2020

Ending well

28.07.2020

Living our values in the distress of exit

31.01.2017

Consulting with soul

14.01.2016

Why haven't we cured Founder's Syndrome?

04.07.2014

Letting go: The missing step in capacity building

04.03.2016

Exit: the end of the road?

Related Resources

24.06.21

Praxis Series Paper No. 13: Is there lasting change, five years after EveryChild’s exit?

25.05.21

Praxis Series Paper No. 12: Supporting CSO Leadership Succession - Voices from Ethiopia

05.09.19

Praxis Series Paper No. 9: Leadership Transition - Overcoming the threat of Founder’s Syndrome

09.03.15

Praxis Note 69. Making Consortia Work. An example of competing consulting firms in Ethiopia

14.08.13

Praxis Note 64. Funder collaboration: A compelling and cautionary tale

01.11.12

Creating Space to Lead: A Guide for Small and Diaspora NGOs