About Rich Mayhew

Rich Mayhew is President of The Mayhew Group which develops high-performance leaders and teams by creating experiences that move them from intention to commitment to results.  

Rich built his leadership experience through ten years as an operating manager in retail and corporate banking where he was responsible for financial control, risk management and relationship banking.  He then spent another ten years leading organizational development and training functions at Bank of America.  During this period he managed the development of matrix and distance leadership skills for international banking offices.  Appointed as Vice President of Human Resource Development in Southern California he was responsible for implementing the retail bank’s transformation to a sales culture.

Rich has combined his experience as a general manager and as an international consultant to develop leadership programs that cross organizational, cultural and geographic boundaries.  He conducted a Strategic Leadership program for Dow Corning that was delivered around the globe for culturally diverse executive groups.  The program won the American Society for Training and Development’s 1999 Excellence in Practice citation.  He has also conducted leadership programs globally for Disney’s Consumer Products Division, TV Animation Division, as well as the ABC TV and Cable Networks Divisions. 
As companies realign globally, he has assisted them in bringing cross-functional and globally diverse teams to high performance such as a culturally diverse group of East Asian managers in a Thailand manufacturing facility.  Apart from longer-term team development projects, Rich conducts team and executive retreats to provide the “quick hits” necessary to create a step change in team performance.
Rich serves as an adjunct faculty member with the Center for Creative Leadership, the largest developer of leadership talent in the US.   He is also adjunct faculty with the corporate education department of the University of California, San Diego where he teaches management development and teambuilding courses for executives.