Rich founded and has pioneered the work of Catalyse Change, a charity that over the last eight years has developed training for leaders and teams around disciple-making cultures, leadership development processes and authentic & impactful community development. Catalyse Change has served and trained denominations, para-church organisations, churches, charities and businesses. The main areas of coaching & consultancy are found in spiritual formation, disruptive innovation, social entrepreneurship and movemental leadership.

There are now indigenously lead, contextualised teams leading the training processes through 11 different geographic regions or ministry-sector areas, with the coaching and training currently running in over 27 countries, as well as multiple relational and strategic partnership and places of investment where Catalyse Change is empowering and equipping organisations to fulfil their God-given potential.

Locally, he lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he is part of Central Church and supports the work of Cairn, a ministry working with churches in the Celtic lands, training them to recapture discipleship & mission at the heart of their culture and practice. Rich has previously lived in Sheffield for 20 years, studied Economics and Business Management at Sheffield University and attended St Thomas’ church for all his years living in Sheffield. He was on staff at St Thomas’ church, Sheffield in the UK for 12 years as the Missional Communities Team Leader, and alongside this pioneered the launch, growth and scale of the work of 3dm (disciple-making training) in Europe and Australasia.

He’s married to Anna, who is a writer & editor, and they have three children: Josiah, Esther and Samuel. They are passionate about living with integrity & intentionality as a family that follows & shares Jesus.