Richard Olivier is the founding voice within Mythodrama – a new form of experiential learning which combines great stories with psychological insights, creative exercises and organisational development techniques to explore issues faced by modern leaders. He has worked extensively in the fields of Organisational and Personal Development and his work has been at the leading edge of bringing the world of theatre into the development of authentic leaders for over 20 years. He has recently founded the Leadership Lab; to resource the transition to life-affirming culture. With Laurence Hillman he is the co-founder of Archetypes at Work (TM), a new frame and method of experiential transformational learning.

Richard was a leading theatre director for over 10 years and directed Henry V for the opening of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London in 1997. From 1998-2003 he was the Master of Mythodrama at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. He is a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation and Associate Fellow of Said Business School, University of Oxford.

He is the author of “Inspirational Leadership – Henry V and the Muse of Fire” & co-author of “Archetypes at Work – evolving your story, one character at a time” published in November 2019.