Richard A. Beaumont was an emeritus member of the board of Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc (IRC), having previously been director of research and board chairman. He was founder and managing director of the RAB Group and was formerly president, CEO, and chairman of IRC’s for-profit subsidiary, Organization Resources Counselors, Inc. (ORC) (acquired by Mercer in 2010).
In almost a half- century of leadership in the field of human resources management, he served as a consultant, facilitator, and advisor to executives and boards of directors of major corporations in the United States and around the globe, and to various branches of federal, state, and local governments. Richard was also Deputy Undersecretary of the US Navy and senior vice president and member of the board of directors of the Amerada Hess Corporation. For eight years, he served as President of the Board of inlingua, AG, an international language training company based in Switzerland.
Long active as an author, editor, and researcher in management organization and all aspects of human resources, Richard was an editor of Industrial Relations to Human Resources and Beyond (M.E. Sharp, 2003), the coauthor of Management, Automation, and People (The Book Press, 1964), and wrote numerous articles in the field. He was an emeritus member of the board of the Darden Graduate School of Business of the University of Virginia and was elected to the National Academy of Human Resources (NAHR) in 1993, having also served on its formation committee.
Richard held a bachelor’s degree from the University of California and a master’s degree from the University of Hawaii.