Richard Houghton

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Trustee at Will Houghton Foundation

Apparel / Fashion

Richard is a specialist management consultant focusing on helping agencies to grow. He spent the first 25 years of his career working in public relations consultancies in the UK and Europe, holding senior management positions in Fleishman-Hillard, Shandwick, and Ketchum. He also ran his own specialist agency, Carrot Communications, for a decade. During his agency career he has dealt with a very wide range of management challenges including merging three agencies to create a new firm; divisional and agency turn rounds, and the launch of an agency from scratch. A columnist for PR Week, Richard writes on the business of public relations in the monthly Agency Doctor column. A past Presid...