Lee Chambers

Lee Chambers is an award-winning business psychologist, male allyship specialist, and founder of Male Allies UK and Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing. A leading voice on gender equity and inclusive leadership, Lee works with international organisations to support high-performing, psychologically safe cultures that prioritise both performance and wellbeing.

Lee’s journey from building a video game company out of his parents’ house to selling it to a European conglomerate is remarkable in its own right. It was, however, his personal battle with a serious auto-immune illness that inspired his greater mission. His experience of being immobile and having to relearn how to walk led him to work to embed wellbeing into the heart of the workplace. That mission became Essentialise, which has gone on to support clients across sectors with data-driven mental health and wellbeing solutions.

Drawing together diverse but fundamentally connected topics including allyship, inclusive leadership, wellbeing and navigating change, Lee explores how to build work and workplaces fit for an uncertain future. He helps companies engage everyone in inclusion and provides practical tools to build a workplace culture where everyone thrives. His insights are rooted in psychology, as well as his personal experience, and he works across industries, from consulting for IKEA and Reebok to coaching elite athletes at Manchester City and Everton FC.

Lee’s book Momentum: 13 Ways to Unlock Your Potential, is a guide to redefining success in the face of ever more complicated, fatigue-plagued working lives that often result in burnout. Lee combines his research and experience and shares accessible tools for embracing uncertainty, building empathy and unlocking growth. These ideas are being adopted by organisations including Bloomberg, Lloyds Bank and Accenture.

A regular in the media from the BBC to Vogue, ITV to Medical News Today, Lee also works as a spokesperson for campaigns at the intersection of health, equity and performance. With clarity, warmth and credibility, Lee combines humanity with practical, data and evidence-based advice to create a new vision of success and how to achieve it.

Named by the US National Academy of Sciences as a Kavli Fellow, one of a small group of scientists acclaimed for their exceptional research, Lee has also been named a Gender Equality Changemaker by UN Women, a Marie Claire Future Shaper, and was inducted into the Black Cultural Archives for services to business and health. He has also received the Freedom of the City of London for his contribution to equality in business.