Richard French writes across genres the way he ran companies: by taking complex systems and making them understandable.
Richard’s biblical commentary Revelation Explained: Verse by Verse (Indie Pen Press, 2024) is a 540-page futurist walk through the full text, written for readers who want to understand the book rather than speculate about it.
It reached number one on Amazon across three biblical studies categories and remains his best-known work. His companion volume Daniel as a Blueprint for Navigating Ethical Dilemmas applies the same careful approach to Old Testament prophecy and moral decision-making in modern professional life.
His fiction includes The Emotion Collector: Awakening (2025), a dystopian novel set in the 32nd century, in which an emotion-extraction agent awakens to a truth her society has suppressed for two hundred years, and The Convergence series (Broken Magic and Restoration), which blends quantum theory with fantasy to explore power, ethics, and transformation. A third fiction project, The Trevelyn Cottage Chronicles, a collection of twelve short stories, is in development.
Richard also writes non-fiction on leadership, personal development, and the craft of self-reflection. His Journaling Mastery series and Journaling Prompt series draw on decades of research into therapeutic writing, including the evidence base built by psychologist James Pennebaker.
Richard spent more than two decades as a C-suite operator in enterprise technology. He was Chief Operating Officer of Automation Anywhere during its scale from $14 million to over $100 million as the world’s leading AI and robotic process automation platform, Chief Executive Officer of Syntonetic (an early pioneer in emotion-aware music AI, whose flagship iPhone app Moodagent generated playlists from a listener’s emotional state), and Vice President of Enterprise Platforms at Oracle. He led teams across five continents and built organizations from startup to global scale.
The skill that carried across every role was the same one his books now rely on: translating complex systems for audiences at every level, from board directors to first-day employees, without sacrificing accuracy for accessibility.
Richard is an amateur GT race car driver. He retired from the Porsche Sprint Challenge Series West and currently competes in local club racing, where the precision and pressure of the circuit continue to inform how he thinks about performance under constraint.
He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife Barbara and their two Boston Terriers, Reggie and Tilly. He serves on several boards and continues to write, speak, and publish through Indie Pen Press, the independent press he founded to support his growing catalog.