Richard Cornelius
Richard founded Cornelius Strategies in 2019 because he wanted to make strategy-focused planning available to local individuals, businesses, corporations, and non-profit organizations.
Richard earned his reputation as a top Strategic Planner and avid Balanced Scorecard champion during three decades of service with the State of California. His career with the State of California spanned record flooding in the 1990s, the real estate boom and bust in the early 2000s, and the amazing growth spurt of 2010. Richard served under Democrat and Republican governors alike, helping critical state departments identify key initiatives and execute on their corresponding objectives.
Richard studied directly under Dr. Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Balanced Scorecard, A Performance Management System, creators). He is an expert in Balanced Scorecard, as well as Total Quality Management, Organizational Management, Effective Meeting facilitation, and team leadership. He honed his skill in the effective use of these management tools.
30 Years of Experience
Community and Family Man
Richard establishes balance in his life through volunteerism, community involvement, and the prioritization of family. When his children were small, Richard got to know the community and many of his neighbors coaching softball, and little league baseball, soccer, basketball, and more. Coaching wasn’t just a matter of teaching the sport and skills to young people for Richard, he saw it as an opportunity to help young people digest and process life lessons. He is also an avid golfer, golf marshal, and pro-active health and wellness champion.
Currently, Richard serves as President of the 100 Black Men of Sacramento and the Strategy Officer in the Office of Strategy Management for the 100 Black Men of America.
Our Culture
What We Stand For:
As Strategic Management Consultants, we want to bring our clients dreams to reality. We offer world class analytic and strategic know-how that you can depend on, as well as industry insights and critical networks. We take pride in offering creativity and diversity.
Our greatest resources ‘People’ combined with our core values allow our clients to be sustainable and successful as a Strategy Focused Organization.
Our organizational culture is based on three fundamental values: economic entrepreneurship, high excellency and holistic empathy. Cornelius Strategies is committed to these core values. They are the synergistic foundation for our professionalism, adding value to our clients, business and community partners, and define our entire organizational culture:
Economic Entrepreneurship
Our efforts are directed at understanding the needs and challenges and utilizing proven tools for success in all markets. This means helping new and existing business leaders by introducing fresh ideas, building strategy and setting them on a course to be a strategy focused organization. We are eager to work with you to identify innovation and build sustainable business solutions to ensure you are truly a Champion in your environment.
High Excellency
We build on excellent results and share global practices to ensure both quantifiable and perpetual success. Our goal is to provide pure excellence in our interactions with clients, in our understanding of the business operations and working together to ensure quality conscientiousness both internal and external. We strive for up-building of expertise and to keep up with the latest innovation, methodologies, and business excellence. We value brilliancy in thought to formulate sound analysis and approaches. Investing in our organizational learning and growth is critical to ensure world class outcomes for our clients and build long-lasting relationships. We value open forum sharing of information and challenges in decision-making until the best data-based outcome is successfully executed.
Holistic Empathy
We live by being empathetic to the business climate and the impact on the client and act as diligent, respectful and responsible advisors. Cornelius Strategies offer a plethora of intellectual and emotional knowledge and understanding to truly exceed our clients’ goals and needs. We work in alignment with your mission to identify gaps, issues, and opportunity for improvement in your organizational framework using industry proven, personalized methodologies and approaches. We are dedicated to tolerance and respect. Diversity is at the forefront as a strength in our organization and wit to thrive on diversity within our clients’ environment. Valuing and appreciation for other’s viewpoints and feedback, our stakeholders considerations are carefully nurtured with integrity and trust at its highest level as expected from our clients.
Guiding Principles
Loving Kindness
Helping Others
Continual Improvement
Continuity of Purpose
1 Client-first
We aim at providing our clients with the best we can offer as a firm and as excellent and entrepreneurial people, and to exceed their expectations whenever possible. We focus on understanding their real problems and offer tailored approaches. We are in search of the "wow" effect. We respond with agility and responsiveness to clients' requests and act in their interest as trustworthy and loyal business partners. We are looking for the client to be our first promoter based on the quality and professionalism of our work.
2 Innovative
We take pride in our entrepreneurial spirit. Our DNA urges us to depart from the beaten tracks, to take up challenges, to accomplish extraordinary achievements and to take risks. We are eager to find innovative solutions to help our clients be game changers in their environment. Our innovative mindset comes with tangible results and impact for our clients.
3 Fact based
Our findings, conclusions and recommendations are always based on our deep analytics and fact based approaches. We bring an independent view and will take a stand if we believe it is in the best interest of our clients. We are not influenced by outside or internal political interests.
4 Collaborative
Consulting is a team task where excellence is achieved when we apply the full range of our diverse skills. We always approach acquisition and project staffing based on the right people combination for the job. We banish any "I, me and myself" culture. We continuously act as one firm.
5 Relevant
We commit to maintaining and extending our professional relevance; deepening our understanding of our clients' industries, extending our functional know-how, building our networks of expertise and intellectual property to support our collective ability to address our clients' most pressing problems and to anticipate client's needs. This comes with our full respect to the confidential information of our clients' and of our own firm.
6 Developing
We strive to attract and retain the best talent. We commit to actively support the personal and professional development of all employees. We help our people to grow their careers: their knowledge, their know-how, their personality and their personal skills. We listen to their needs and suggestions and we recognize our role in providing on-the job training, formal training, and regular feedback. We are a meritocracy and reward contributions to our success.
7 Leading
We lead with courage and by example to inspire our colleagues. We cultivate the passion for our profession, the taste for having dreams and the ambition to realize them. We respect our word and act with transparency. We value open discussion and debate in decision making, but once made, we stand by the decisions taken by our community and will take all necessary steps. We reinforce our values by living our commitments.
8 Respectful
We are a diverse community and recognize our diversity as strength. Heterogeneity is our hallmark. We value others' perspectives and feedback to improve ourselves. We do not allow ourselves, or others, to be negative about the members of our firm. We act with humility internally and with our clients.
9 Ethical
We commit to tolerance and respect to human dignity wherever we are and whatever we do. We promote corporate social responsibility. We are respectful of the cultures and diverse realities of the countries we work in and the clients we work with. We act with honesty and integrity.
10 Proud
We are proud of what Roland Berger stands for and take pride in our firm's and colleague's accomplishments. We create a working environment that people appreciate and that enables the individual to achieve excellence in a positive spirit and with passion for our firm. We celebrate our collective successes. Our success stories build and nurture our identity and our values. We strive on making our community stronger tomorrow than it ever was yesterday.
Our Code of Conduct
In our profession, success and value creation depend on trust. In a complex and challenging business environment, trustful relations are based on competent, integer and reliable personalities. Respecting laws, regulations and company policies is a matter of course for each and every one of us.
Our organizational values of economic entrepreneurship, high excellence and holistic empathy have an impact on the way we work and express our understanding to strive for the highest professional standards. They form a solid ground for our self-conception – as a company. They help us achieve outstanding results and create real value for our firm, our clients and the society we live in.
In order to provide clear guidelines for our work and the way we interact with clients, business partners, communities and colleagues, we have developed this Code of Conduct. The Code reflects our value statement and describes how we put it into practice. Today more than ever, ethical behavior, moral action and integrity are the prerequisites for successful business development and outstanding services for our clients.
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