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About Dr. Richard MacKinnon

The Founder and Managing Director of WorkLifePsych, Richard is a Chartered Psychologist and Coach. He's passionate about helping people be their best selves at work and effectively managing their wellbeing and productivity in a proactive and sustainable way.

When leadership development goes wrong

Leadership development can play a critical role in supporting leaders' effectiveness and the resulting success of organisations. Leaders face a multitude of organisational and personal challenges on an almost daily... read more →
  • June 11, 2025
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  • Development, Sustainable Leadership

What is ‘Sustainable leadership’?

Leaders have it tough. We expect a lot of them. And while they navigate their ever-growing todo lists, they're under pressure to fulfil employees' expectations. And be a positive role-model... read more →
  • April 4, 2025
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  • Sustainable Leadership

Self-care in uncertain times

The world right now can seem like a chaotic and frightening place. Especially if we allow thoughts about what's going on to permeate our waking hours and take us away... read more →
  • March 28, 2025
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  • Thriving at work, Wellbeing

Resilience: prevention is better than cure

In my last post, I outlined some of the risks in over-relying on employee resilience, including unwelcome interpersonal behaviour, erosion of the organisational reputation, and eventual burnout. If this left... read more →
  • February 14, 2025
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  • Resilience, Thriving at work, Wellbeing

Resilience: when all you have is a hammer…

Introduction Resilience often features on the syllabus for management and leadership development programmes. Organisations generally view as a positive attribute in the workplace - for good reason. Resilient responses to... read more →
  • February 6, 2025
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  • Resilience, Thriving at work

Self-care: an intentional approach

In the first two posts in this series, I explained what self-care actually is, and flagged some common self-care pitfalls to avoid. In this final post, I want to share... read more →
  • October 11, 2024
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  • Thriving at work, Wellbeing

Self-care: 5 mistakes to avoid

This is the second post in a series focusing on self-care and its role in our wellbeing at work. For a reminder of why self-care is so important, you can... read more →
  • October 4, 2024
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Self-care: what is it and why does it matter?

When you imagine self-care, you may well visualise someone easing themselves into a hot bubble bath, a glass of wine in their hand, and a big smile on their face. ... read more →
  • September 26, 2024
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Workplace wellbeing: it’s about getting the essentials right

When exploring ways to boost your employees' wellbeing at work, it can be tempting to scan the horizon for new solutions and products; that one thing that will make all... read more →
  • September 19, 2024
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  • Thriving at work, Wellbeing

Ten years later…

I've always been interested in our perceptions of the passing of time. Personally speaking, the past summer practically flew by, while I know the upcoming 'dark and wet season' is... read more →
  • September 9, 2024
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