Richard Childs is an accomplished organization and training performance improvement consultant with extensive experience improving results, capabilities, employee and leadership competencies, and performance support systems across a wide variety of industries, including manufacturing, transportation, energy, telecommunications, and non-profits. Childs specializes in engaging organizations and their employees in achieving their potential and integrating culture, strategy, processes, and performance targets to ensure sustainability.

With over 25 years of experience, Childs is skilled in facilitating organization development, process improvement, designing, delivering, and evaluating training and learning programs, developing management leadership, and designing performance support systems. Childs holds an M.A. in Educational Technology, Learning Systems, Organizational Learning, Needs Analysis, Instructional Design, and Systems Theory from Concordia University, a Bachelor of Commerce in Strategic Planning, Organizational Development, and Marketing from the University of Windsor, and a Teaching Certificate in Teaching, Instruction Design, Learning Strategies, and Curriculum Planning from D'Youville College.

Childs is the Principal/Consultant at Magellan Training Consulting and has previously held positions as the Business Process Improvement Project Manager at CSA International; HQ, Toronto, Owner/Learning Consultant at New Leaf Consulting, Process Consultant at CN Rail, and Office Systems Analyst at Bell Canada.