Richard Grimes

Richard “Dick” Grimes, MPA, CPT, has more than 30 years of experience in training, operations management, and organizational development across private and public organizations. He uses that background to create practical, self-paced courses and consulting materials focused on the people and performance side of engineering work.

His courses cover a wide range of topics that engineering managers, project leaders, and technical professionals encounter every day. These include building and developing high-performance project teams; diagnosing and improving employee and team performance; increasing productivity with little or no added cost; motivation, delegation, and empowerment; leadership fundamentals (including leading AI teams, multi-generational workforces, and organizational change); conflict management; talent management and workforce diversity; communication, presentations, and technical writing; negotiation and influence; budgeting and financial concepts for non-financial leaders; capacity planning; vendor relationships; strategic maintenance management; and practical approaches to organizational culture.

With prior roles that include Manager of Training and Employee Development for an international engineering and design firm, Operations Training Manager for a Fortune 500 bank, and co-owner of a bank courier company, he brings perspectives from the line-employee, supervisory, and executive levels. He holds a Master of Public Administration from Florida International University and is a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) with the International Society for Performance Improvement. He is also an Ezines Expert Author.
Courses provided to CEDengineering.com by Mr. Grimes are as follows: