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Suggested Interview Topics
Richard brings clarity, practical wisdom, and deep insight to conversations about leadership, performance, and personal effectiveness. Here are a few popular angles for your show. Custom topics are also available.
Solving the Right Problem: Performance Friction & Solutions
Focus: Why many performance systems solve the wrong problem and how to spot and solve the real friction points.
Challenge solved: Misaligned solutions, wasted effort, and complexity.
Takeaway: Frameworks for identifying and solving the performance friction that actually matters.
Performance Learning: How Systems Grow Champions
Focus: Creating environments where learning sticks under pressure.
Challenge solved: Shallow development cycles and stagnation in talent progression.
Takeaway: Tools and practices that make learning a competitive advantage.
Blind Spots and Decisions: What We Miss and Why It Matters
Focus: Exploring the common blind spots in decision-making in high performance environments.
Challenge solved: Repeated errors in judgment, unaddressed risk, and unseen opportunity.
Takeaway: Techniques to surface, test, and reduce cognitive and cultural blind spots.
7 Behaviours of Repeat Medalists
Focus: The behavioural edge of repeat success across Olympic cycles.
Challenge solved: Lack of repeatability in elite performance.
Takeaway: Transferable behaviours that leaders and athletes can build into daily practice.
Designing Systems that Perform Under Pressure
Focus: How to align system design with actual performance demands.
Challenge solved: Disconnected strategy and practice.
Takeaway: Practical system-thinking tools for performance architects and coaches.
Leadership at Every Level: Distributed, Deliberate, Durable
Focus: Leadership isn’t a title—it’s a system role.
Challenge solved: Bottlenecks, disempowered teams, and leader over-functioning.
Takeaway: How to build distributed leadership into your culture.
DTE – Decision-Thinking Environments
Focus: Crafting environments that accelerate decision quality and ownership.
Challenge solved: Overload, indecision, and underperformance in complex scenarios.
Takeaway: Frameworks to develop adaptive, robust decision-makers.
Performance Conversations that Matter
Focus: Moving from review to renewal in how we talk about performance.
Challenge solved: Feedback that creates resistance or confusion.
Takeaway: Tools for leading conversations that transform performance, not just rate it.
The Picture of Performance: Making the Invisible Visible
Focus: Clarifying what good looks like—individually and collectively.
Challenge solved: Misalignment, unclear expectations, and fragile accountability.
Takeaway: How to develop and use shared mental models of performance.
10 Olympics, 10 Lessons: What Sustained Success Really Takes
Focus: Candid insights from across Olympic cycles and sports.
Challenge solved: Fragmented understanding of long-term excellence.
Takeaway: Ten powerful, practical shifts that underpin sustained high performance.
Featured Podcast Appearances
Looking for a taste of Richard in action? Below are a selection of podcasts where Richard has shared his insights on high performance, leadership and simplifying for impact. Each conversation offers a different lens on his approach.
The Sport Psych Show - Building a System for High Performance
Sweet on Leadership - Simplicity, Alignment and Performance
The World of Sports Performance Podcast - The Importance of Systems in High Performance Sport
The Roadman Cycling Podcast - From Team GB to Team Jumbo: Richard Young on Winning Processes
The Athlete Development Show - Turning Potential into Performance
Talking Performance - Richard Young Ph.D - High Performance Consultant
Reputation Matters with Clinton Brown and Richard Young
The Messy Middle - Simplify to Perform
Books by Richard
Richard is the author of two books used by leaders across industries.
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Simplify: A High Performance Playbook
This book lays the foundation for Richard’s approach to sustainable high performance — the same framework he’s used with Olympic athletes and global leaders. It explores how clarity, consistency, and simplicity drive elite results under pressure. A great jumping-off point for conversations around focus, burnout, and performance habits that actually work.
Amplify: Leadership Tools for Energising Teams
In Amplify, Richard turns his focus to leadership. Drawing from his coaching of high-performing teams, he shares strategies to align energy, create accountability, and build cultures that thrive under pressure. Hosts often pull from this when exploring topics like adaptive leadership, team dynamics, and leading through complexity.