Rick Fletcher - President and Founder

Rick is the founder and President of HRchitect. Rick has 25 years experience in the human resource software and consulting industries and is responsible for corporate development and overall strategic direction of HRchitect. He is a recognized authority on Human Capital Management systems practices and strategies and is often quoted in the press for his expert market analysis of the HCM software marketplace. Rick has led HCM strategic planning initiatives at hundreds of companies including Blockbuster, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, The Mayo Clinic, Raytheon and Sprint. 

Rick was formerly Managing Director of Consulting Services at The Consulting Team. Previously, he held a variety of management positions with human resource software and consulting firms including CDG & Associates, Dyer Wells and Genesys Software Systems.

Rick has co-developed several of the HRIS industry's most successful software evaluation and implementation methodologies and has served as an advisor and trainer to many software vendors. He is the founding editor of the IHRIM.Link magazine, the leading human resources systems magazine. He is a 1996 Summit Award winner, the highest honor awarded by the International Association for Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM) and a past member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) HRTM Advisory Board.  He is a frequent writer and speaker and has presented at over 250 HRIS and talent management conferences over the last three decades. Rick holds a B.B.A. from Stephen F Austin University.

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