A trusted global authority on Mindful Leadership

  • I’m Richard, the go-to peak performance, holistic wellbeing and mindful leadership consultant for some of the world’s largest companies. For over 20 years I’ve been partnering with organisations in countless industries to help them boost productivity, enhance wellbeing and create vibrant leadership cultures
  • As an award-winning clinical psychologist and leading mindfulness expert, I bring an evidence-based and trauma-informed approach to everything I do, ensuring the psychological safety of individual employees, teams and leaders.
  • From the TEDx stage to Fortune 500 boardrooms, my expertise and passion lie in creating genuine, lasting culture change, teaching the tools that make a difference and generate measurable return on investment

I’ve worked with many of the world’s most successful companies

Career Highlights

  • Awarded 2016 World Health Organisation Global Healthy Workplace Award (Team Award)
  • Awarded 2020 Australian Psychological Society’s Significant Contribution Award for pioneering work in mindful education and leadership.
  • Founding member and developer of leading mental health app Smiling Mind (with over 8 million downloads)
  • Adjunct Associate Professor and founding member of Monash Centre for Consciousness & Contemplative Studies
  • Lead educator on 3 award-winning online mindfulness courses at Monash University, completed by over 500,000 people worldwide
  • Led delivery of organisation-wide mindful leadership training at Victoria Police
  • TEDx speaker
  • Author of 3 books

My Story

Discovering mindfulness in 1999 was a life-changing experience for me. I stumbled by complete chance into a meditation class and learned – for the first time in my life – to take control of my chaotic mind.

Within a few months of daily practice, I went from distracted and scattered – and barely passing my psychology degree as a result – to being able to focus like a laser beam for extended periods. My low-level depression and anxiety symptoms evaporated, and I felt healthier and more resilient than I ever had before.

Mindfulness was such a game-changer for me that I shaped my career around making it accessible for as many people as I could – at first in schools and universities, and later in businesses, startups, government organisations and elite sporting teams.

But as is so often the case in life, this new superpower had a dark side. The ability to focus for long periods meant I took on more and more. With a values-driven career shaped around mindfulness, I naively thought I would be immune to the kinds of problems that mere mortals faced

But I was wrong. I suddenly found myself exhibiting the very same signs of burnout that I had been helping my coaching and consulting clients with.

This humbling experience sent me on a new journey, where I drew on everything I had learned over 20 years about what makes peak performance sustainable over time. I dived deeply into the research on positive psychology and effective leadership. And I confronted my deeply held unconscious habit of seeking external validation through being successful.

In the end, this challenging period turned out to be the biggest blessing of my life. I radically changed how I showed up every day, and began genuinely embodying my values around sustainable peak performance and genuine wellbeing.

Let me teach you what I learned

I have been fortunate enough to work with Fortune 500 companies, startups, not-for-profits, government agencies and elite sporting teams, helping them improve their performance, increase resilience and enhance leadership and culture.

Over the past 20+ years partnering with organisations around the world, I’ve come to realise that most business leaders’ deepest desire is to make a massive positive impact on their team, organisation and community – but that they are often too caught up in overwhelm, distraction or survival to do so.

My mission is to empower leaders, entrepreneurs and changemakers to achieve their full potential by focusing on what is important and working in sustainable, strategic ways. I draw upon my experience as a clinical psychologist and facilitator, using evidence-based mindfulness, emotional intelligence and leadership tools.

Here’s what my clients are saying about me

Working with Dr Richard Chambers has been a game changer. Richard presents practical material in a truly authentic manner, and by demonstrating his own vulnerability, is able to deeply connect with the audience and facilitate meaningful discussion.

His focus on achieving sustainable peak performance via adopting mindfulness practices, enhancing productivity, managing technology, and understanding emotional intelligence were immensely valuable. We have now established an ongoing partnership with Richard and I can’t recommend him more highly.
Tim Morden
CEO, SHK Global
I was introduced to Richard through the Mindful Leaders MBA™ program that he delivers for the Bunnings Leadership Team. Following that initial session, I was fortunate enough to have the ability to work with Richard a number of times and his authenticity shines through. Whether one on one or in the classroom, he creates safe space for people to lean-in to things they may not consider comfortable but makes the unfamiliar unintimidating.

Richard’s approachable nature makes it easy for leaders to engage, open up and be vulnerable which allows the course content to stick and have a lasting impact. We have made his Mindful Leadership session a key part of our leadership development program.
Danielle Farrugia
Victoria HR Manager, Bunnings
Richard delivered an outstanding keynote address to our organisation. His deep expertise, engaging style, and practical insights left a lasting impact.

Richard seamlessly blended research with relatable examples, inspiring our team to prioritise mental wellbeing. His professionalism and commitment to our mission were evident throughout the process.

We wholeheartedly recommend Richard as a speaker and look forward to future engagements with his expertise.
Amanda Clements
Group HSE Manager, Mirvac
Dr Richards Chambers ‘focusing on what matters’ presentation provides fantastic insights to the human mind and behaviours that lead to loss of productivity.  In explaining the way the mind works, he provides specific solutions to overcoming difficulties often faced in the workplace. Working in a fast-paced environment it is important to utilise every moment you have.

The team found Richard to be an engaging presenter and found his session to be very beneficial in identifying simple strategies which they could easily embed in their daily routine

I would recommend this session to everyone as there are so many practical insights and learnings.
Chris Thompson
Qantas Airways
Richard was excellent - very succinct, credible and grounded. He taught our team valuable skills for improving focus and productivity.

The evidence-based way he presents information made it immediately accessible to everyone across the organisation.
Clare Wilkes
Head of Organisational Development, IRESS
A number of people reached out following your session and expressed their thanks as they found it really valuable and took a lot from it.

You pitched it perfectly and included a great balance of statistics and research, along with practical and actionable suggestions for how to make changes.

You have a really professional and polished presentation style which was also well received by our people.

You absolutely nailed the brief. I really appreciated how much you tailored the session to the objectives we discussed when we initially spoke. It really met the needs of our business and will help us continue to have more conversations about this with our people moving forward.
Heidi Mangan
Web3

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