Sam Richardson

Human Capital Management Lead & Enterprise Change

Sam Richardson is a senior enterprise change and Human Capital Management (HCM) leader with nearly 20 years of experience driving large‑scale transformation across workforce, systems, processes, and organizational structures. He specializes in aligning people, roles, capabilities, and behaviors to enterprise transformation strategies, ensuring organizations achieve sustained adoption and measurable business outcomes.

Throughout his career, Sam has led human capital–centric change initiatives that focus on workforce readiness, role clarity, leadership engagement, and capability development within complex, matrixed environments. His expertise spans Prosci/ADKAR‑based change management, organizational readiness and impact assessment, multi‑wave deployments, and enterprise training and enablement—positioning Human Capital Management as a core driver of successful transformation rather than a supporting function. 

Most recently, as Training Manager and Change Enablement Lead at AGCO Corporation, Sam led enterprise change and Human Capital Management enablement strategies supporting large‑scale business and system transformations. He refreshed and executed change strategies aligned to evolving project milestones, conducted workforce impact and readiness assessments, and designed role‑based training programs to support new operating models and ways of working. Partnering closely with HR, PMO, IT, and functional leaders, he integrated HCM‑focused change and training activities into master project plans, built cross‑functional Change Champion Networks, and established adoption metrics to reinforce behavior change and sustain workforce performance across deployment waves. 

Previously, Sam served as Engagement Owner and Federal Change Management Site Lead for Oracle‑Cerner’s U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Electronic Health Record modernization program. In this role, he led site‑level change management for a nationwide rollout, addressing complex intersections of technology transformation and Human Capital Management priorities, including workforce readiness, leadership sponsorship, training enablement, and post‑go‑live stabilization. He partnered with national, regional, and facility leadership to ensure the workforce was prepared to adopt new systems, workflows, and accountability models across multiple deployment waves. 

Earlier in his career, Sam was an Organizational Change Consultant with Krauthammer International, where he supported Fortune 500 organizations through enterprise and regional transformations with a strong emphasis on Human Capital Management outcomes. His work included leadership alignment, organizational diagnostics, change readiness assessments, and Train‑the‑Trainer programs designed to build internal change capability, strengthen leadership effectiveness, and support long‑term cultural and behavioral change. He also held consulting roles supporting technology‑enabled process transformations, including ERP, CRM, and POS implementations, with a consistent focus on user adoption and workforce engagement. 

Sam holds a Master of Arts in Organizational Management with a concentration in Global Management and a Bachelor of Arts in History. He is a Prosci Change Management Practitioner and holds additional certifications in DISC, ATD Virtual Training, and DDI leadership facilitation. Based in the Atlanta area, Sam brings a pragmatic, people‑first approach to enterprise transformation, with Human Capital Management at the core of his change philosophy—connecting strategy to workforce capability, leadership behavior, and sustainable adoption.