Richard Harbridge is a Chief Technology Officer, an author, an internationally recognized speaker, and a Microsoft MVP. Richard works as a trusted advisor with hundreds of organizations, helping them understand their current needs, their future needs, and what actions they should take to grow and achieve their bold ambitions.

Richard remains hands-on in his work and has led, architected, and implemented hundreds of business and technology solutions that have helped organizations transform both digitally and organizationally. Richard has a passion for helping organizations achieve more; whether it is helping an organization build beautiful websites to support great content and social strategy, or helping an organization leverage emerging cloud and mobile technology to service better their members or the communities that they serve.

As a sought-after speaker, Richard has often had the opportunity to share his insights, experiences, and advice on employee experience, AI, the digital workplace, Intranets, collaboration, process improvement, adoption, governance and Microsoft technologies at numerous industry events in around the globe. When not speaking at industry events, Richard works with Microsoft, partners, and customers as an advisor to business and technology, and serves on multiple committees, leads EX and technology groups, and is a Board Member of the Microsoft Community Leadership Board.