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What They Don't Train You For with Richard Andrews
What They Don't Train You For
This is a conversation about the gap between how we manage people and how we actually care for them. Richard Andrews has spent decades in recruitment and coaching — and this is not an episode about talent pipelines or competency frameworks. It is about what happens when someone treats you like a person. And why that turns out to be the most effective thing of all.
Richard brings a perspective shaped by thirty years at the uncomfortable intersection of business incentives and human welfare. He has watched recruitment reduce people to CVs, seen high-performing leaders destroy their teams with unchecked anger, and coached executives through the slow discovery that self-compassion is not a weakness — it is a working condition.
He also raises a question that stopped me short: we train people extensively for their careers. We give them almost nothing for retirement. For a third of their lives, they are on their own. In this conversation, we explore what changes when organisations — and coaches — decide to take that seriously.
ABOUT RICHARD ANDREWS
Richard Andrews is a coach and outplacement specialist with three decades of experience in recruitment and career transition. He has worked with individuals at every level — from executives facing redundancy to young professionals navigating their first roles — with a particular focus on the behavioural patterns that create lasting change. He is based in the UK and can be reached at [email protected]. He also writes on Substack.
RESOURCES MENTIONED
- Viktor Frankl — Man's Search for Meaning (the 'space between stimulus and response')
- Patrick Lencioni — The Advantage (humble, hungry, smart)
- Ethan Cross — Chatter (4,000 words per minute of self-talk)
- Brené Brown — self-compassion and 'you can't love anybody more than you love yourself'
- Jonathan Haidt — The Anxious Generation (social media and young people)
- Simon Sinek — Leaders Eat Last (the leader who speaks last)
- Richard's Substack
- Contact [email protected]
GRACEWorks is a podcast for leaders, high achievers, and thoughtful humans who sense that success alone is no longer enough.
Hosted by Paul Crick, each episode explores what it means to lead, live, and work with GRACE especially when we find ourselves under pressure of some sort or another.
Through honest conversations, lived experience, and reflective inquiry, GRACEWorks invites you to move beyond relentless striving toward clarity, presence, and alignment.
If this episode resonated, you’re warmly invited to explore more conversations, reflections, and practices at GRACEWorks and to share this episode with someone who might need it.
© 2026, The Elevate Partnership Limited. All Rights Reserved.
Get full access to GRACEWorks at graceworkscollective.substack.com/subscribe
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By Paul CrickWhat They Don't Train You For
This is a conversation about the gap between how we manage people and how we actually care for them. Richard Andrews has spent decades in recruitment and coaching — and this is not an episode about talent pipelines or competency frameworks. It is about what happens when someone treats you like a person. And why that turns out to be the most effective thing of all.
Richard brings a perspective shaped by thirty years at the uncomfortable intersection of business incentives and human welfare. He has watched recruitment reduce people to CVs, seen high-performing leaders destroy their teams with unchecked anger, and coached executives through the slow discovery that self-compassion is not a weakness — it is a working condition.
He also raises a question that stopped me short: we train people extensively for their careers. We give them almost nothing for retirement. For a third of their lives, they are on their own. In this conversation, we explore what changes when organisations — and coaches — decide to take that seriously.
ABOUT RICHARD ANDREWS
Richard Andrews is a coach and outplacement specialist with three decades of experience in recruitment and career transition. He has worked with individuals at every level — from executives facing redundancy to young professionals navigating their first roles — with a particular focus on the behavioural patterns that create lasting change. He is based in the UK and can be reached at [email protected]. He also writes on Substack.
RESOURCES MENTIONED
- Viktor Frankl — Man's Search for Meaning (the 'space between stimulus and response')
- Patrick Lencioni — The Advantage (humble, hungry, smart)
- Ethan Cross — Chatter (4,000 words per minute of self-talk)
- Brené Brown — self-compassion and 'you can't love anybody more than you love yourself'
- Jonathan Haidt — The Anxious Generation (social media and young people)
- Simon Sinek — Leaders Eat Last (the leader who speaks last)
- Richard's Substack
- Contact [email protected]
GRACEWorks is a podcast for leaders, high achievers, and thoughtful humans who sense that success alone is no longer enough.
Hosted by Paul Crick, each episode explores what it means to lead, live, and work with GRACE especially when we find ourselves under pressure of some sort or another.
Through honest conversations, lived experience, and reflective inquiry, GRACEWorks invites you to move beyond relentless striving toward clarity, presence, and alignment.
If this episode resonated, you’re warmly invited to explore more conversations, reflections, and practices at GRACEWorks and to share this episode with someone who might need it.
© 2026, The Elevate Partnership Limited. All Rights Reserved.
Get full access to GRACEWorks at graceworkscollective.substack.com/subscribe