Dr Sean Richardson

SNAPSHOT - DR SEAN RICHARDSON

EXPERTISE
A former elite athlete and academic researcher in psychology, Sean is an expert in the psychology of High Performance and Leadership, with a focus on the mindsets necessary to produce consistent excellence in teams, leaders, and individuals in business and professional sport.

PASSION
Sean is passionate about speaking to, coaching, training and mentoring individuals and teams to get the best out of themselves at the highest levels of performance. Sean is also obsessed with understanding the psychological barriers that stop people and how to help them move through such challenges with resilient thinking.

APPROACH
Combining an understanding of brain science and function, with experience in training sports and corporate teams to competitive dominance, Sean facilitates high performance leadership development to get your team communicating and collaborating effectively, executing with maximum accountability, and achieving both individual and organisational goals. Sean mentors senior leaders, coaches, athletes & leadership teams to build their own brand of personal high performance resilience (what we might also call ‘mental toughness’), and teaches them how to be effective in leading their teams to excellence by understanding the subtleties of human behaviour in high performance contexts. In other words, he helps leaders to understand exactly what makes different people tick, such that the leaders can push their team members to perform better and make them happier for it at the same time.

KEYNOTE/WORKSHOP/MENTORING POSSIBILITIES

Headstrong - Psychology of Excellence
Mental toughness for high performance - staying ahead of the evolutionary curve - bouncing back from adversity & bouncing forward with opportunity

High Performance Teams
Building excellence in teams and cultures through leadership and accountability

Mastery Mindsets
End to end process for achieving personal mastery of complex skills/behaviours and goals in high performance sport, business, performing arts, health, fitness, and life

High Performance Leadership
Psychology of excellence for executive and senior leaders, managers, and senior coaches and how to lead and inspire through high performance communication

Perfect Balance
Removing personal barriers, resolving interpersonal challenges and conflicts, balancing stress & recovery, preventing injury, and moving through crises with emotional and cognitive balance

RESULTS

Sean is not just out to inspire audiences with his presentations, but also to embed take home skills that apply immediately to your life and workplace. Sean endeavours to provide insights into the mindsets and behaviours of human performance, which create the following outcomes:

• increased productivity • improved staff retention • increased accountability culture • high morale • greater profit • increased creativity and innovation • happier customers • reduced sick days • improved conflict resolution • increased job satisfaction • high performance teamwork • improved talent development • improved performance under pressure •

EXTENDED BIO - DR SEAN RICHARDSON

EXCELLENCE
As a high performance and leadership consultant to professional athletes, performing artists, and successful CEOs, Sean brings an Olympic level of commitment to excellence to his work with clients. Sean comes from a background of elite sport, having competed at national and international levels in rowing and windsurfing. Combining 30 years as an athlete in competitive sports with a PhD, MA & BA in psychology, ongoing research & professional development in brain and behaviour functionality, and 10 years in practice, Sean has found that the principles of mental discipline required for performance at the highest levels in sport apply similarly to performance at the highest levels in business.

BALANCE
Whilst high performance is the goal, Sean is also aware that many people get stopped by personal ‘stuff’ and by what goes on inside their heads - personal barriers often get in the way of even the most ambitious goals and determined efforts. Thus, Sean brings a total commitment to mental and emotional balance to his practice. He works tirelessly, coaching his clients to develop mindsets and behaviours that not only get them success, but also give them tools to be powerful in the face of anything that life throws at them.

CLIENTS
• St Kilda Football Club (AFL) • Chrysler Australia • Fonterra Dairy Brands • AMP Financial • Mars • Crombie-Lockwood Insurance Brokers • Clemenger BBDO Marketing • Mercedes Benz • ANZ Bank • National Foods • TAB Corp • National Australia Bank • Crown Casino • The Australian Ballet Company • Victorian Institute of Sport • Momenta, Rock Band • West Coast Helicopters • ACEC • Loney Financial •

Sean has been a lecturer at Victoria University in Research and Statistics, at Deakin University in Sport Psychology, and has also been a guest lecturer for the Monash Music Department.

Sean’s private clients include corporate executives, senior sales staff, business coaches, opera singers, golfers, dancers, football players, triathletes, and the general public.

TESTIMONIALS

Sean has played a significant role in St Kilda's on-field success. Specifically, he introduced key concepts that resulted in huge cultural change at this football club over my four years as head coach. He helped the team develop a "possibility mindset" that enabled all players and coaches to pursue greatness through a commitment to excellence of preparation on a moment by moment basis.

Ross Lyon, Senior Coach
Skilda Football Club (AFL)

Sean was a breath of fresh air as a motivational speaker at our annual conference. Having attended quite a few conferences over my career, I found Sean refreshing, direct and humble at the same time. Sean has even taken the time to answer questions that I had, which I felt that I could not bring up in such a short time allocation at the conference. Sean is a professional in how he approaches his work, but also a confidante that you can entirely trust in. Sean has been a great value add to our national conference this year, and I would recommend him for any company who seeks a different but stylistic approach to motivating team members.

Melanie Roosendaal, Sponsorship Executive
Brownes Foods Pty Ltd

A brief note of thanks for the excellent presentation you gave at our annual Sales and Marketing Conference last week. Your key messages around sustaining performance... worked perfectly with the team and linked nicely to our overall conference theme. What impressed me most was your easy style and ability to hold your audience, linking relevant day to day examples that people could easily relate to with key behaviours, through to outcomes. You provided an invaluable part to our conference and left over 200 people highly motivated to engage and make a real difference - my sincere thanks!

Jim van Bruinessen, General Manager - Sales & Chief Customer Officer
Fonterra Brands Australia

Sean is a consumate professional who brings the sciences of behaviour and psychology across to the business arena with outstanding results. With high accountability and a high performance mindset, Sean delivers enthusiasm, empathy and excellence into any team and leaves them with few options other than to become high-performers. Outstanding and upstanding as an individual, Sean is the go-to-guy for performance excellence. I would work with him again in a heartbeat.

Darren Hill, Executive Director
Pragmatic Thinking

Sean. WOW! Dealers were still buzzing after a couple days! We’ve got to book a session for my control staff as well!

Gerry Jenkins, Managing Director
Chrysler Australia and the South Pacific Region

Sean had our audience spellbound with his depth of experience and cutting edge thought. His ideas are simple, yet have a profound impact. I would recommend him as a speaker for anyone who needs to take their teamwork to the next level.

Brian Campbell, CEO
Management Coach