Dr. Richard Majors is a Counselling Psychologist and Honorary Professor at the University of Colorado in the United States, who has been living and working in the UK for over 20 years.
 He is the founder and former deputy editor of the Journal of African American Studies (formerly the Journal of African American Men), one of the largest ethnic journals in the US. He also is a former Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. 

While at Harvard, Majors co-founded the National Council of African American Men (NCAAM), one of the first umbrella groups in the United States for African American males. He was a Senior Research Associate at the prestigious Urban Institute in Washington, DC for two years. In 1996/97, prior to moving to the UK, he was appointed a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow for Research. In 2000 he was appointed a Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. 

Dr. Majors wrote the lead psychological expert statement, in the UK high court for the landmark case, SGvs St. Gregorys Science School, which successfully overturned previous policy and legislation that prevented Black children from being able to wear culture-specific hairstyles in school.

Dr. Majors has also met with members of the Clinton Administration to discuss youth policy. He is the author/co-author of seven books and dozens of scholarly articles. His book Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America (1992) was submitted for Pulitzer Prize by the publisher and was on the publisher bestsellers’ list in 1992. Cool Pose is considered a classic in the field and is one of the most cited books in race relations and gender in the US. Previously, in the UK he was selected to be on a Ministerial Working Group on Education and Gangs. 

Majors was selected in 2015 to receive the Warrior Award from the International Colloquium on Education for his longstanding service, research and leadership on education, globally. In 2016 he was shortlisted, for the Medical Livewire Global Award for his work in the field of psychology. Dr. Majors was again honoured in 2018 by Medical Livewire for his outstanding work in the field of psychology and this time was bestowed with their prestigious award: ‘Psychology Professional of The Year’.

 In 2019, he received the Expert Witness Award from Lawyer Monthly Magazine, in recognition of his specialised knowledge and experience within the area of Trans-cultural Psychology. 

Dr Majors offers a plethora of comprehensive skills covering mediation performance management, managing difficult employees and stress, life coaching, human resource and customer service training, assessment and benchmarking strategies in the work place and culture competence. Additionally, 

Dr Major’s has conducted extensive research in the USA, New Zealand and the UK- providing insight into areas regarding race, class and gender. Dr Majors contributions are vast and profound; having given and conducted 100’s of workshops, master classes, key notes, honorary lectures and consultations in well over 25 countries on every continent, his work maintains an evident global significance.