In 2014 Richard decided to set up a company to make people happy.

Here’s his story …

Richard Clarke is a workplace happiness expert, keynote speaker, and former tech founder and CEO. He helps leaders create happier teams that perform better and stay together longer.

Caroline Hobden - Accountex

What a pleasure it was to work with Richard. From the first chat to the delivery of his session, everything went so smoothly. He really engaged with our audience and blew them away with his session and I could not recommend him enough to other event organisers.

Richard’s Story

In Pursuit of Happiness

Before founding his company, Secret Source, Richard travelled the world in search of the secret to happiness. He taught English in Tanzania, sailed around the Caribbean, instructed waterskiing in Turkey and drove around the whole perimeter of Australia in a 1972 VW. Over 20 years he lived in and explored more than 50 countries in pursuit of the secrets of personal happiness.

A company with happiness as a KPI

After moving to the Canary Islands, in 2014, Richard founded Secret Source, a software company. He had a radical theory. If he made team happiness its main KPI, teams would collaborate more, learn from each other and be more aligned with the company’s goal. He believed that if his team was happy, business success would naturally follow. Over the next eight years, he studied the science of workplace happiness and team performance and applied it in Secret Source. He grew the company to fifty employees before eventually stepping aside after its acquisition.

Teaching the world how to make companies happier so they perform better

Today, Richard speaks, writes, and teaches leaders how to use the science of happiness to build better businesses. Using his Five Steps to Work Happiness framework, he shows audiences the small, practical steps companies need to take to make their workplaces nicer places to be.

Having faced the pressures of running a company himself, he connects with audiences on the real challenges of balancing team happiness with business success. Richard hasn’t just studied the theory, he’s built a real company around his beliefs and has the scars to show it.

Richard’s story is unique. His talks are engaging, full of real stories, backed by science, and packed with practical steps leaders can apply immediately.

If you want a speaker who your audience will be talking about for months after your event, someone who will not only change how your audience sees happiness at work, but show them how to make a difference. Richard is that speaker. His talks spark action, not just applause.

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