Dr. Ty Richardson
Speaker, Author & Coach.
Dr. Ty Richardson, a Trinidadian-American, left a corporate career with a Fortune 500 Multinational Corporation after 14+ years to launch a start-up in Silicon Valley. After an unsuccessful attempt at building a social network, YoPro Global, Dr. Ty pivoted the organization to a social enterprise which later gained a global appeal and supports the advancement of youth and young professionals, as they prepare for, and enter the workforce. Dr. Ty also heads a global financial consultancy, One Global Index Consulting Inc., providing access to finance for organizations worldwide, based in the United States. The focus of this organization, like YoPro, is the advancement of Emerging Markets in the Developing World.
Dr. Ty uses his top five Gallup strengths: Significance, Activator, Arranger, Command and Maximizer, to bring together, and lead high performing teams and high impact projects towards a successful end. While Dr. Ty is a certified Gallup Strengths-based coach, his focus is on spreading the value of strengths-based coaching, and the expertise of his teams, to make a greater impact worldwide. Dr. Ty works one-on-one with high-performing clients, as well as larger groups and audiences, to demonstrate the power of performance when starting from a place of strengths.
At One Global Index Consulting and it’s US-based partner One Global Business Financing, clients can access a wide range of financing solutions for their business, from invoice advance payments, to fix and flip loans, SBA loans with an SBA preferred lender, and business lines of credit to name a few. OGIC and OGBF can provide access to capital from $50K to $1B and above. In 2022, OGBF was approved as a direct funder for commercial loans in the United States, allowing the organization to underwrite and fund loans for real estate investors across multiple products.
On the back of the pandemic, and with it almost in the rearview mirror, Dr. Ty embarked on 2021 with renewed purpose. Reinvigorated to help solopreneurs, entrepreneurs and business seeking to pivot, Dr. Ty launched a new agency focused on aiding in brand and profile building, and community engagement for individuals and organizations. This agency provides strategies, coaching, PR and marketing services with an emphasis on guaranteed PR, experiential events and high-valued connections. Learn more at https://yoproglobal.agency Dr. Ty also launched a custom program to coach individuals seeking to leverage his experience in living in six cities around the world, and become, or scale as a local influencer in their community as part of the Agency.
In 2022, continuing in an upward trajectory and with a goal of creating a bigger impact and serving more entrepreneurs, Dr. Ty partnered with Kelly Roach Coaching as a Business Strategist, serving clients with global business strategy in scaling their businesses from six figures to nine. With three six-figure companies and a seven-figure company "under his belt", Dr. Ty is able to provide companies from diverse industries and entrepreneurs from different countries, with business strategy to achieve their goals and objectives. Today, Ty is the VP of Consulting & Business Solutions which includes oversight of the Client Services Delivery team and processes for Consulting, Coaching and Business Solutions, as well as Event Experiences for the brand.
As Dr. Ty expands his presence in the market, he's recently been invited to be the host and a cast member, as well as an executive producer of Dining Dudes, a spin off of the widely successful Dining Divas franchise. With the cast fully formed, filming and production will begin in August 2022 and the television series will be aired on a popular cable network. Dr. Ty will also be working with the Dining franchise to support their app marketing and other spin off shows.
Today, Dr. Ty continues to run One Global Business Financing Corporation, The YoPro Global Agency, The YoPro Global Foundation and his coaching practice at Dr. Ty Richardson LLC, while providing business strategy for clients of Kelly Roach Coaching, as well as leading the Customer Service Team as the VP, and serving his community on the Board of Governors at the Tower Club Fort Lauderdale; as a Board Member, Chair of the Membership Council and Past Chair of the Rising Leaders Council at the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce; Board Member of the Animae Caribe Digital Arts and New Media Festival, and Commissioner of the City of Fort Lauderdale Housing Authority; Partner & Coach at Freedom Fridays Coaching, and most recently, host, cast member and executive producer of Dining Dudes.
** New Venture Alert: In partnership with Brad Kady, Dr. Ty supports real estate entrepreneurs who want to launch and/or scale a short term rental business. This is not arbitrage and if focused on servicing existing investors using a contract thereby creating assets without liabilities and can be done with zero-capital investment in real estate. Visit https://www.freedomfridayscoaching.com/ for more information**
Contact Dr. Ty today, to discuss how he can help you, your goals or your organization.
Entrepreneur. Investor. Evangelist.
15+ years in multiple leadership roles
14 years with a Fortune 500 Multinational Corporation (Aviation, Contact Centers, Telecoms, Operations, & Banking)
7 years Founding and running a Tech and Impact Start-Up
4 years overseeing an international division: 6 offices across EMEA/APAC
3 years: Gallup Strengths- Based Performance Coach.
Today, Ty currently serves in the following capacities:
With a passion for life and career with purpose, Ty has spent his entrepreneurial journey coaching young professionals and preparing the next generation for the workplace.
With a PhD in Organization & Management concentrated on Customer Experience and Generational Differences, and as a Certified Strengths-Based Coach, Ty devotes a large portion of his time speaking to corporate, non-profit and young professional audiences on tapping into their strengths to maximize their performance. With a unique life story of his own, filled with accomplishment and life lessons, Ty is able to draw on experiences that exemplify ways to avoid failure and achieve success using your inner strengths.
As a Gallup Certified Strengths-based coach, Ty works with leaders across the world to understand their strengths, coach them on how to lean into them, and use them to advance personally and professionally.
Having worked with over 15 Senior and C-Level Executives at the largest Investment Bank in the Caribbean, as well as business leaders across the region and the US, Ty uses his own Maximizer strength to take an individual from "Good" to "Great". Ty also works with teams to strengthen work relationships and establish teamwork to increase productivity and strengthen performance.
Listen to the feedback students in Trinidad and Tobago give after two days of content around Strengths and Strengths-based coaching coupled with self-development topics on failure and leadership.
This event was hosted by Dr. Ty Richardson and his coaching partner, Angela Coleman for high school students in Trinidad and Tobago.
Dr. Ty had the opportunity to work internationally with Flow Trinidad and Tobago on developing a campaign for their staff for International Women's Day. Here Janelle Pascalle, HR Executive and Communications Manager share her experience working with Ty and his team to develop and execute this experience.
Dr. Ty consults with global companies to realize their objectives across multiple verticals, including marketing, strategy and employee development.
Dr. Ty Richardson and coaching partner Angie Coleman deliver a speech in Jamaica for the Human Resources Association of Jamaica Annual Conference on the Workspace Design for the Workplace with Multiple Generations inhabiting it. The session also allows Dr. Ty and Angie to introduce Strengths-based Theory to the audience.
With a PhD in Organization & Management focused on Customer Experience amongst Gen X and Gen Y, Dr. Ty is well positioned to apply his Strengths-based Coaching to Customer Experience applications, as well as Generations in the workplace.
Learn more about Gallup's strengths-based coaching and Dr. Ty Richardson's involvement with Clarity Coaching and Consulting, as an effort to share and deliver this new and innovative approach to performance management and personal excellence, rooted in over thirty years of research.
Check out Dr. Ty Richardson's latest book on Amazon about his journey to becoming a young professional, a story of migration, college, career choices, living and work-life balance. Ty is joined by friends John Bloore, Marni Peters, Charlotte Leo and Warner Leedy as they contribute their experiences, advice and recommendations on navigating this same journey to others.
Following a Year-Long Coaching Engagement with 12+ Leaders at a large Investment Bank, Dr. Ty received the following feedback: