Richard is the CEO of the Mindful Business Charter, a cross business initiative to reduce the stress we
experience at work and which is a key cause of workplace mental illness. He is also a principal
consultant at workplace consultancy Byrne Dean and is on the IBA Wellbeing Commission. He
formerly chaired the steering committee of the Lord Mayor of London’s This is Me campaign which
uses story telling to break down the stigma associated with mental illness. He is a qualified coach
and mental health first aid instructor. His first career was in law, becoming a senior employment law
partner before mental breakdown in 2011 left him in hospital for a month and unable to work for
two years. His experience of breakdown and recovery is the subject of his memoir, This Too Will Pass
– Anxiety in a professional world, published in 2018. He is a father of three grown up children and
splits his time between London and rural France.