A former international industrial CEO, engineer/MBA (Purdue/Tuck), strategist, and serial entrepreneur, Richard S. ("Dick") Melrose provides strategic advisory services to clients ranging from startups to Fortune 25.

Melrose asserts that the same five high-level strategic outcomes underwrite business success, regardless of industry, size, or scope. Talent, and more particularly Strategic Talent Management -- i.e. the alignment of Talent Strategy and Workforce Plan with Business Strategy -- constitutes one of those five Critical Success Factors.

Dick is a subject matter expert in each of the five Critical Success Factors (including Platform, Excellence, Knowledge, and Innovation, as well). He also advises clients how to readily make their strategies systematic, logically valid, step-by-step, ongoing processes, which "Accelerate purposeful value creation and capture."