WorkLifePsych helps individuals, teams and organisations improve how they work through evidence-based coaching, training and development programmes. We support people to build healthier habits, manage pressure, work more effectively with others and make sustainable progress at work.
We're a team of accredited and experienced workplace psychologist who help clients develop and maintain their wellbeing, productivity and effectiveness at work. We do this by providing quality and evidence-based coaching, training and development programmes.
As coaching psychologists, we bring our understanding of workplace psychology - how people think, feel and behave at work - and combine it with impactful coaching skills to bring about the valued changes our clients look for.
We deliver impactful and evidence-based training courses to equip our clients with the skills they need to navigate the contemporary workplace, to support their wellbeing, their productivity and their interpersonal effectiveness.
We design and deliver high quality development programmes for graduates, managers and organisational leaders, to build self-awareness, contextual awareness and interpersonal effectiveness.
Helping professionals cope sustainably with pressure and stress, respond with resilience to setbacks and challenges and invest in their own wellbeing.
Helping professionals to focus on what matters, minimise distractions and procrastination and invest their time, attention and energy where it matters most.
Helping professionals develop the skills and personal qualities that boost performance, goal attainment and interpersonal relationships at work.
We work with individuals, teams and organisations globally, across sectors and industries. We've coached CEOs and leadership teams, developed high potential cohorts, supported graduates in their first career steps and equipped managers with the essential skills and personal qualities to lead teams.
Our approach is to develop people from a whole person perspective, acknowledging that they have lives outside the workplace, multiple roles within their lives and strengths and development areas across all these areas. Three principles set us apart:
We believe in the importance of personalised development. This means ensuring all our clients have an experience that emphasises what they, as an individual professional, can take away and put into practice immediately, taking account of their role, their skills and their personality.
We believe that organisations should be offering high-quality development for all, not just the arbitrary few. We subscribe to a broad, inclusive definition of ‘talent’ and believe that quality, challenging and relevant development is as important for the newly-arrived graduate trainee as it is for the C-suite executive.
The workplace is a veritable breeding ground for fads and fashions when it comes to learning and development. We empathise, but also emphasise the application of the science of psychology. By using evidence-based methods, we avoid falling into the trap of fashions that have no demonstrable impact.
By bringing the science of psychology to life in the workplace, we use the high quality scientific evidence that demonstrates what works. No gimmicks, no fads. We translate the concepts and frameworks into accessible and impactful tools for our clients. And the evidence is very clear: by using the science, we can boost employee wellbeing, productivity and effectiveness at work.
As every client and organisation is unique, we bring the science to life with a sensitivity to their context. And yet, some things help employees in every organisation, including:
There is a before and an after working with Richard. Once you embark on the coaching journey, be prepared for a tremendous positive change in your daily life. Thanks to his strong experience, focus, kindness and skills, Richard successfully and gently steers you towards personal breakthroughs and discoveries. The impact of having Richard as a coach has influenced me to sign up my leadership team for the same programme
WorkLifePsych have helped us successfully design from scratch a leadership programme which has been deployed across the Group which is now in its fourth year of delivery. It has been received extremely well, resulting in delegates making measurable change in their approach to leadership in their role and deployment into their teams.
We asked Richard and the WorkLifePsych team to assist in the start-up phase of our new business. As a new talent-based creative business, unencumbered from legacy ways of working we were determined to put in place the most contemporary and relevant people strategy. Richard worked closely with us to develop our people strategy, including how to clarify and communicate our organisation’s values, how to identify and nurture talent and how to create a sustainable people development strategy. Richard continues to support Untold Studios. He is insightful, attentive and challenging in all the right ways. He has been instrumental in our launch and remains a supportive and trusted advisor. I have no hesitation in recommending Richard to other startups - I’ve no doubt Richard and his team will have a huge positive impact on any new business.
I worked with Richard as my coach across 2016/17 with my goal of being an “intrapreneur" who makes the business I’m taking care of sustainable. I want to innovate to surprise our audiences, foster people around a vision and multiply others’ talent. And in my business, there is a lot of passion and emotions, everything moves very fast and things change constantly. As I was gaining seniority, it was hard for me sometimes to keep a “cool head" when taking decisions. Thanks to Richard, I got way closer to achieving this goal! I became a better leader by clarifying my innate talent, managing my emotions better, understanding the complex system I’m working within and multiplying others to get their best. Richard provided me with tips and frameworks that help me navigate through this system better every day . There has been a before and after Richard for sure!
We recently invited Richard to our first learning festival, to deliver a keynote as well as a workshop on the topic of psychological flexibility. Working in the public sector brings its own challenges and this is why it was really important to us to offer personal development opportunities centred on wellbeing, and practical tools for us to use on a daily basis when we may be feeling overwhelmed or experiencing anxiety. Feedback from those taking part was extremely positive and we are already looking at working with Richard on other initiatives.
Richard has worked with DCC Group for over eight years within a variety of organisational contexts so we were delighted to invite him recently to present on the topic of “Coping with Change” to our employees in DCC Vital. Richard has a unique mix of broad experience, an ability to appropriately adapt a message to suit different audiences and is very practical. The feedback from our employees on his session was excellent and they appreciated the tools and techniques he shared through the session. Presenting virtually is a challenge to the best of us, but Richard makes it look easy! There was such a logical flow in his messaging that he hit the right note with our diverse workforce. We couldn’t recommend working with him more highly and we look forward to working with him on other projects going forward.
For professionals who want ongoing development, WorkLifePsych also offers learning resources and community-based support.
An online personal development community for professionals who want support, structure and accountability.
My Pocket Psych is WorkLifePsych’s podcast about the psychology of the workplace, hosted by Dr Richard MacKinnon.
If you are looking for practical, evidence-based support for your people, we can help you explore the right approach.
