Burnout is not the price of ambition. Exhaustion is not a badge of honour.
Too many ambitious professionals operate as if success requires constant sacrifice—longer hours, relentless pressure, and pushing through exhaustion. The result? Burnout, declining performance, and a career that becomes increasingly difficult to sustain.
What if the problem isn’t your ambition, intelligence, or work ethic?
What if you’re simply using the wrong playbook?
In The Corporate Athlete, Richard Reid shows you how to stop treating your career like an endless sprint and start training for sustainable success with the mindset, energy, resilience, and discipline of an elite performer.
If you are an executive, founder, leader, ambitious professional, or high-performing team member who feels stretched, distracted, overworked, or constantly under pressure, this book gives you a practical framework to perform at your best without burning yourself out.
Richard has consulted with several prominent organisations, including the City of London Police, Transport for London and the Witness Protection programme.
In addition, he runs a boutique international practice that provides therapy, coaching, and psychology-related consultancy services to entrepreneurs, high-net-worth individuals, and C-Suite-level leadership.
His particular spheres of interest lie in the areas of Trauma, Resilience, Workplace Culture and Charisma.
Richard is a regular media spokesperson on channels such as Sky News, CNBC, BBC and ITV and has co-hosted the Sky One series “Extreme Phobias, Extreme Cures”.
Moreover, he is a published author with Penguin Books and a global keynote speaker.
His corporate portfolio includes Sophos, Novartis, Ernst & Young, Cap Gemini and the Ministry of Defence.
