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Executive leadership
Senior roles spanning strategy, operations, technology, finance, product and commercial responsibility.
About Stutely & Associates
Richard Stutely
Senior adviser, international business executive and author.
Richard founded Stutely & Associates as a platform for senior advisory work, special projects, execution support and business writing. The common thread is independent judgement: understand what is really happening, simplify the problem and help leaders decide what to do next.
Bespoke advice. Practical solutions. A stronger tomorrow.
The experience behind Stutely & Associates
From boardroom to policymaking.
A career spent making difficult decisions, building things and helping other leaders do the same.
Richard’s career has crossed strategy, operations, finance, technology, banking, economics, product development and international consulting. That range matters because difficult business problems rarely sit neatly inside one function.
- CEO, C-suite and board-level experience across banking, technology, SaaS and international business.
- Former bank Chief Economist and senior banking executive, combining commercial judgement with financial and economic depth.
- Hands-on implementation experience — establishing operating structures, developing products and systems, and turning recommendations into working businesses.
- International advisory experience spanning Europe, the Middle East, Asia and emerging markets.
- Author, ghostwriter and business communicator with a long record of making complex subjects clear and usable.
The result is practical operating experience reinforced by analytical discipline: business first, economics where it helps.
Selected experience
Built, run, advised and written.
Not every assignment needs every part of the background. The value lies in being able to recognise connections across the whole business.
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International perspective
Work across multiple markets and geographies, including Europe, the Middle East, Asia and emerging markets.
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Advisory & policy
Independent advice to founders, executives, boards, companies and public-sector organisations.
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Writing & communication
Internationally published business author and ghostwriter, translating complex subjects into useful decisions.
Experience in print
Books that have stayed in print — and in use.
Richard is the author of internationally published books on business planning, finance, economics and numeracy. Several became long-running bestsellers, were translated into multiple languages and have been used by entrepreneurs, executives, universities and MBA programmes internationally.
They were published by organisations including Financial Times / Prentice Hall, The Economist Books and Bloomberg Press.
The Definitive Business PlanFinancial Times / Prentice Hall
The Definitive Guide to Business FinanceFinancial Times / Prentice Hall
The Economist Guide to Economic IndicatorsThe Economist Books / Bloomberg Press
The Economist Numbers GuideThe Economist Books / Bloomberg Press
A useful precedent
“Can you implement it?”
A major bank once asked Richard to plan the redevelopment of its retail-banking system and recommend how it should be implemented. After accepting the recommendations, it asked the obvious second question: could he implement them?
Richard then established and ran the development operation. The assignment became a multi-year programme spanning technology, finance, recruitment, operations, international partnerships and product development.
Diagnosis matters. Implementation matters more.
That is the philosophy behind Stutely & Associates: useful advice should survive contact with the real world.
Profiles & further reading
More detail, if you want it.
The website is deliberately concise. These short profiles explain the advisory and book-collaboration work in greater depth.
Private Advisory Profile
How Richard works with founders, CEOs and boards as a confidential sounding board, adviser and implementation partner.
Download PDF ↓Private Book Collaboration
Book development and editorial partnership for founders, leaders and experts with serious material to develop, including biographies and thought leadership.
Download PDF ↓The $2,500 Business Fix
The six-page overview of the focused CEO/COO diagnostic, including scope, outputs and commercial structure.
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Current thinking on LinkedIn
Richard posts short observations on leadership, business, economics and current affairs several times a week.
Follow Richard on LinkedIn →How engagements are led
Personal involvement. Practical results.
Richard personally leads client engagements. The relationship is direct, confidential and focused on outcomes. When a project needs specialist depth beyond his own, trusted collaborators can be brought in without turning the assignment into a consulting pyramid.
- Direct access to the senior adviser
- No junior-team hand-off
- Independent thinking, not a preferred-solution sales pitch
- Scope tailored to the problem rather than a standard methodology