Founder & Principal
Richard
Lipp
Founder & Principal · Operating Model Architect
Divergent Kind is a coherence architecture practice for AI-era organisations. It is led by Richard Lipp – an operating model architect with two decades of practice across product, experience, and consciousness-centred design.
The Career
Earlier roles span Apple, Jetstar, the NAB Innovation Lab, Qantas, and Virgin Australia – where he built the airline's first internal product and experience team from the ground up and contributed to a step-change of more than $100 million in digital-channel revenue in a single year.
The Catalyst
After fifteen years inside design and product leadership at scale, a late diagnosis of neurodivergence at forty became the catalyst for a different question: why do organisations, products, and AI systems so often fail to produce coherent outcomes for the people they are meant to serve? Richard turned the same systems-design lens onto that question, and built the architecture that became Divergent Kind.
What He Built
The work draws on lived experience as a neurodivergent designer, leadership across enterprise and innovation contexts, and practice-based research into how cognitive difference operates as systemic intelligence rather than deficit. From this Richard developed Consciousness-Centred Design and Neuroarchitectonics™ – the ethical operating system and the applied discipline beneath the Divergent Kind Coherence OS™.
Today
Today Richard works at the intersection of operating-model design, coherence architecture, and AI-enabled execution – designing the layer that lets complex organisations convert signal into durable, low-friction action. He operates at board and executive level, and brings Coherence OS as the practice's proprietary architecture.
Difference is not what you accommodate after the design. Difference is what the design starts from.
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Divergent Kind facilitates conditions for agency and coherence. We do not diagnose, treat, or cure.