Founder | Entrepreneur | Talent & Growth Partner
Meet Richard Long
I’ve spent more than 23 years building businesses, connecting people and creating opportunities. And I’m nowhere near finished.
Jefferson Wolfe Consulting
Built on relationships. Focused on growth.
I founded Jefferson Wolfe Consulting with a simple belief: lasting business is built on relationships, trust, hard work and delivering what you promise. Since then, I’ve built and led recruitment businesses, managed teams of up to 35 people, generated millions in revenue and worked with ambitious organisations across the UK, Europe and international markets.
My work has taken me from start-ups finding their feet to scale-ups growing at pace and established organisations facing complex talent challenges. But my experience has never been limited to recruitment. I’ve spent my career developing markets, winning customers, negotiating partnerships, building teams and finding commercial opportunities.
I’ve been the business owner making difficult decisions, the salesperson opening doors, the leader accountable for results and the person getting involved when something simply needs doing.
Beyond consultancy. Real business experience.
Alongside Jefferson Wolfe Consulting, I’m involved in property investment and portfolio management, an investment in a small gaming business, and a growing family-run butchery and food supply operation.
Those experiences keep me close to the realities my clients face: managing costs and cash flow, making investment decisions, building supplier relationships, finding good people, serving customers and creating sustainable revenue.
There’s a difference between advising someone on how to grow a business and understanding what it feels like to be responsible for growing one.
Every venture gives me a fresh perspective. I don’t approach a challenge purely as a recruiter, salesperson or consultant. I approach it as a fellow business owner who understands that decisions must make commercial sense.
My interests span different industries, but the common thread is always the same: people, opportunity and growth.
How I work
Commercially grounded
Hands-on delivery
Relationships first
I believe in getting involved, understanding the business, challenging assumptions and taking responsibility for the outcome. Sometimes that means building a recruitment function. Sometimes it means mapping a new market, identifying prospects, creating a sales strategy or personally picking up the phone. I favour practical action over impressive presentations that don’t lead to change.
Experience matters. Hunger matters more.
After more than two decades in business, I still have the same fire in my belly that I had when I started. I love opening a new market, winning a customer others thought impossible, finding the person who changes a business and turning an idea into a commercial reality.
Jefferson Wolfe Consulting is entering its next chapter as Talent & Growth Partners: bringing together talent solutions, customer acquisition and sales, digital growth, and market intelligence. I bring experience, energy, a network built over decades and a determination to make things happen.
I’m not ready to slow down. I’m just getting started on the next chapter.
Richard Long
Founder, Jefferson Wolfe Consulting | Talent & Growth Partners
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