Gordon Ritchie's Linkedin Analytics

An experienced professional and thought leader in Skills Management applied across every stage of the Talent Management lifecycle. My journey exemplifies the career voyage, anchored in core themes of Education, Skills and Technology. Applying my business experience in SaaS solutions and technical savvy has been gained from founding a successful startup, investing, and growing in key roles in Sales, Product Management, Customer Service and Consulting. This gives me a broad lens to question and understand market and customer challenges, develop a vision and and creative solution design to execute on strategy. I love working to develop measurable solutions that demonstrate a real return from investing in people, and often take a ‘hands dirty’ approach to research, learn and foster new or better practices. In my own experience of Leadership and Development, when people recognize potential and extend opportunity, it creates life changing moments. Embracing my own good fortune where people have trusted in me, I have been able to extend this myself. The results have been humbling where that opportunity may have taken those people, what they have achieved at work, but what its also opened up in a greater life. I try to recognize these moments for others as I work and lead. Leading a team of people to sail around the world has influenced my view of success as a leader, that self-awareness is the core to leadership of ones self and of others. Therefore it requires honesty, transparency and a sense of vulnerability and there is nothing like the ocean to give one a sense of scale and relevance. Gordon's Behavioural Assessment Profiles for Gallup StrengthsFinder Top 5: 1. Strategic, 2. Adaptability, 3, Relator, 4. Ideation, 5. Developer