Dr Richard Chambers Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

A high-performance, wellbeing and leadership consultant with over 20+ years experience supporting hundreds of Fortune 500 Companies (including PWC, EY and BHP), government organisations and educational institutions.I provide strategic consulting, keynotes, group programs & 1:1 coaching services, supporting:- Management & leadership skills- Mental health & wellbeing- Productivity- Stress & burnout reduction- Talent attraction & retention- Change resilience- Healthy workplace culture

An experienced High Performance and Leadership coach, I have worked with CEOs, executives and senior leaders in Fortune 500 companies, government organisations, and professional sporting teams.

A Doctor of Clinical Psychology with 15 years experience in private practice, public mental health and tertiary counselling, I won the 2020 Australian Psychological Society's "Significant Contribution Award".

Monash University Centre For Consciousness & Contemplative Studies

A founding member of the Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies (M3CS), I helped secure funding, establish the centre, and set the early strategic direction. I was part of a team that won the prestigious 2016 World Health Organisation "Global Healthy Workplaces Award".I also won the Deans Award for creating a Self Compassion online course. In addition, two of my online mindfulness courses were awarded "Best Online Courses Of All Time" by Class Central.With one of my colleagues, I also created an innovative semester-long academic unit in contemplative science, the first of its kind anywhere in the world. This course featured the world's thought leaders in contemplative science including Jon Kabat-Zinn, Richie Davidson, Kristen Neff, Tara Brach, Matthieu Ricard and many others.The author of 3 books and 3 book chapters, I remain actively involved in mindfulness and psychedelic research, regularly publishing in top-tier peer-reviewed journals. I have published 50 peer-reviewed academic studies and am a global leader in mindfulness research. I am also a regular contributor to popular print, radio, TV and podcast media in the wellbeing, high performance and leadership space.I continue to partner with M3CS to provide pro bono strategic consulting around curriculum creation and online program development.

Founding director and Chief Program Officer of Eudelics. Eudelics offers leadership development programs combining mindfulness, leadership training and psychedelics (delivered legally and in a safe, evidence-based way).While at Eudelics, I helped set the strategic direction for the company, designed and delivered multiple programs and retreats in the Netherlands, where psilocybin is fully legal. I also delivered leadership coaching to support participants fully integrating the insights and values/behavioural shifts they experienced as a result of the program.With my colleagues at Eudelics I also published multiple academic studies in leading journals, and have now become a global on the intersection between mindfulness, psychedelics and leadership.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

I led a world-first initiative to embed mindfulness across the Monash University community, reaching up to 10,000 students and staff each year. I also led a world-first initiative to embed mindfulness and other evidence-based performance, wellbeing and leadership programs in the core curriculum for students. As part of my role, I piloted and facilitated multiple award-winning programs, including 3 online courses that have reached over 500,000 people around the world. Two of these were awarded "Top 50 Online Courses Of All Time" by Class Central.During this time I was actively involved in mindfulness research, supervised students and trained staff - both professional and academic, and won a number of awards including the World Health Organisation "World's Healthiest Workplace Award", a Deans Award for Professional Excellence, and two Vic Chancellor's commendations for teaching excellence.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

I was an early developer of the award-winning mindfulness app Smiling Mind, which has over 6 million downloads worldwide. I supported the nonprofit from the very beginning as a strategy consultant, content creator, trainer and ambassador.

Doctor, Clinical Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Psychology