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We all have blindspots...
High Performers have fewer.

It's time to shift your focus from solving countless problems to embracing the keys to sustained high performance.

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Systems hold.
Leadership lifts.
Performance delivers.

You know the pressure.

Great people. Big expectations. Well meaning intentions. 

But alignment is scattered, priorities blur, and performance starts to drag.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

I help leaders and teams build environments where performance flows—where values are clear, systems align, energy is focused, and leadership is shared.

Through keynotes, workshops, and mentoring, I help you:

  • Reconnect to your values and align to your purpose

  • Simplify systems to reduce friction and lift your energy and clarity

  • Amplify and empower leadership at every level of your team

  • Shape environments to thrive under pressure

  • Deliver better performance and less burnout

 

Most systems are only a few degrees away from optimal!  For high performance that lasts the breakthrough is closer than it seems!   

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The Focus 

I work with leaders to shape high-performance systems that are simple, aligned, and well.  Together, we design the structure and strengthen the leadership needed to sustain success under pressure.

Whether we’re diagnosing friction points, empowering leadership behaviours, or refining the way people, roles, and decisions connect—our focus is the same:
Clarity over complexity.
Alignment over effort.
Energy that sustains, not drains.

This is the work that turns good systems into great ones—and leaders into multipliers of performance.

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Deep insight to help you and your team unlock and unblock.

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Simplicity is Clarity

Over 30 years, I’ve learned most challenges come from overload—not absence. Together, we uncover what’s getting in the way, sharpen focus, and remove friction across your system, leadership, and team.

The result? Clarity, alignment, and sustained performance.

It is a learned skill that the best have mastered!

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Alignment is Connection

When values, people, and energy are out of sync, even top performers stall. Friction rises. Focus fades.

Together, we create the clarity and alignment needed to lift decisions, unlock energy, and deliver consistent performance—especially under pressure.

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Wellbeing is Energy

It’s not just about individual wellbeing—it’s about creating the conditions where people, teams, and systems stay connected, focused, and resilient under pressure.

By identifying where energy flows or gets blocked, we make targeted shifts that sustain performance, sharpen decision-making, and lift the whole system.

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Speaking

Richard is a sought-after keynote speaker who blends research, lived experience, and practical tools—backed by 11 Olympic cycles on the front lines of high performance.

He shares stories and insights from working with the world’s best with structured research across 7 Olympic cycles—revealing what sets champions their system and leaders apart from the rest.

Each talk is a chance to pause, see differently, and walk away with clearer language, better questions, and practical shifts that stick.

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Workshops & Masterclasses

Workshop are either half a day or full day and masterclasses are weekly 90 minutes for 8 weeks.   

 

We work in a group, likely from your own organisation to help you deepen and align on values, simplify your systems uncover blindspots and amplify what matters most in your world.

We’ll explore and implement simple tools your team can use straight away. Unlock the friction, amplify the focus, so performance holds under pressure:  insight into action that lasts.

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1:1 Mentoring

My mentoring programme helps senior leaders and experts lead with clarity, simplify complexity, and create sustained performance—where it matters most.

Whether you’re navigating disruption, scaling a culture, or searching for repeatable high performance, this programme is built for your world to help you bring more impact and less friction.

Through structured diagnostics, one-on-one mentoring, and personalised tools, we’ll unpack what’s working, shift what isn’t.

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Advisory Work

I support leaders and organisations to build systems and leadership that deliver sustained performance—without the drag.

This includes performance reviews, measurement frameworks, strategic sessions, debriefs, and team-building—all designed to create clarity, alignment, and momentum where it matters most.

It’s not about surface change. It’s about systemic shifts that unlock deeper, more lasting performance—across teams, culture, and leadership. 

 

Every organisation is different. Reach out to explore the main challenges you want to solve.

Who I
work with

Get to Know Us

I help leaders in business, sport, health, and education lift individual and team performance—without burning out their people or their system.

Drawing on lessons from high performance sport, I help leaders apply what it takes to win at the highest level—building systems and cultures for championship-level performance in their own context.

From Olympians to executives, I work with those under pressure to deliver now while creating the clarity, alignment, and wellbeing needed to sustain success.

Richard has designed and delivered programs for the following clients:
“With Richard's knowledge, his experience and asking the questions that nobody dared to ask, he encouraged us to reflect and adapt our behaviour.

All of this contributed to Team Belgium having the most successful Olympic Games in 100 years in every respect”

Olav; Performance Director

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