About Dr. Lee R. Roberts

For more than 30 years, I have led teams, developed people, and worked in environments where discipline, responsibility, resilience, and sound decision-making were essential. My experience spans military service, first responder and search-and-rescue leadership, senior executive operations, academic research, endurance sport, writing, mentoring, and leadership development. Although these areas may appear different, each has reinforced the same fundamental lesson: who we become is shaped over time by how we repeatedly choose, respond, behave, learn, and relate to others.

Pressure can reveal aspects of our character, but it is our daily behaviour that gradually develops it.

My Work in Behavioural Wellbeing

Today, my work is centred on Behavioural Wellbeing. Behavioural Wellbeing is the intentional development of the choices, habits, values, relationships, and behaviours that shape who we become and the direction of our lives. It is a practical, evidence-informed framework for understanding how repeated behaviour influences identity, character, resilience, relationships, leadership, purpose, and long-term wellbeing.

The concept grew from a question that has followed me throughout my professional, academic, and personal life: Why do some people continue to grow through responsibility, hardship, and change, while others remain trapped in patterns that prevent them from becoming who they are capable of being?

There is no single or simple answer. Human behaviour is influenced by personality, biology, health, past experiences, relationships, culture, opportunity, environment, beliefs, and circumstances that may be outside our control.

However, within those realities, our repeated choices and responses still matter.

The habits we reinforce, the people we surround ourselves with, the values we act upon, the responsibilities we accept, and the way we respond to difficulty gradually influence our direction. Behavioural Wellbeing focuses on developing greater awareness of this process and using that awareness to live and lead more intentionally.

Shaped Through Leadership and Experience

Leadership

Years of executive leadership have taught me that character is revealed most clearly when responsibility, pressure, uncertainty, and competing priorities come together. Leadership requires judgement, accountability, consistency, and the willingness to make difficult decisions.

Service

Military service and search and rescue reinforced the importance of discipline, teamwork, preparation, and responsibility for others. These experiences shaped how I understand service, trust, leadership, and behaviour under pressure.

Endurance

Endurance sport taught me that meaningful progress is rarely built on motivation alone. Training, discomfort, setbacks, and repetition reinforced the value of discipline, patience, adaptability, and continuing when progress feels slow.

Resilience

Hardship has shown me that resilience is not simply the ability to endure difficulty. It is the capacity to learn, adapt, recover, and continue moving forward while allowing experience to shape greater perspective, character, and purpose.

Academic Background and Research

I hold a PhD in Organizational Behaviour, an Executive MBA, and an MSc in Business Psychology. My academic work has examined areas including resilience, engagement, personality, leadership, values, ethical decision-making, motivation, and human behaviour. My MSc research explored the relationship between resilience and engagement within values-based leadership using a mixed-methods approach.

Across my academic work, my goal has remained consistent: to understand human behaviour more deeply and translate credible research into practical ideas that people can apply in everyday life, leadership, relationships, and organizations. Research is essential because it helps distinguish reliable knowledge from assumptions, fashion, and unsupported claims. At the same time, research has the greatest practical value when it can be understood and applied beyond academic settings. My work therefore seeks to connect evidence with lived experience.

Behavioural science and psychology help explain how people form habits, interpret situations, respond to stress, relate to others, and change over time. Organizational behaviour helps us understand how leadership, culture, systems, expectations, and group dynamics influence individual and collective behaviour. Practical experience reveals how those ideas operate when people face real responsibility, competing priorities, pressure, conflict, uncertainty, and change. Behavioural Wellbeing brings these perspectives together within an accessible developmental framework.

Faith, Meaning, and Purpose

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.”
Romans 12:2, ESV

Although much of my work draws from behavioural science, organizational behaviour, psychology, and leadership research, my life is anchored in the Christian faith. I believe that human development involves more than performance, productivity, achievement, or personal success. It also involves character, responsibility, truth, service, relationships, purpose, and the kind of person we are becoming.

Science can help us understand many of the processes through which behaviour changes. Faith provides the moral and spiritual foundation for understanding why that change matters. My Christian worldview emphasizes that renewal involves both belief and action. Values become meaningful when they are expressed through behaviour. Character is not merely something we claim to possess; it is demonstrated through the way we live, respond, serve, forgive, persevere, and treat others.

While my faith is openly part of my work, Behavioural Wellbeing is presented in a way that allows people from a wide range of backgrounds to engage thoughtfully with its practical principles.

A Practical and Responsible Approach

What Behavioural Wellbeing Is

Developmental — focused on intentional growth over time.
Evidence-informed — grounded in behavioural science, research, and applied experience.
Responsibility-focused — encouraging thoughtful ownership of choices and behaviour.
Practical — designed to translate ideas into everyday action.

What It Is Not

Psychotherapy — it is not a substitute for professional mental-health treatment.
Diagnosis — it does not diagnose psychological or medical conditions.
Medical treatment — it does not replace appropriate healthcare.
A claim that willpower solves everything — circumstances, health, environment, and support all matter.

Writing, Research, and Application

Research

Evidence-informed work on resilience, leadership, engagement, and behaviour.

Speaking

Practical talks on behavioural wellbeing, leadership, and resilience.

Coaching

Structured support for individuals and leaders seeking intentional growth.

Books

Writing that explores character, faith, resilience, and intentional growth.

Leadership

Applied insight for decision-making, responsibility, and development.

Behavioural Wellbeing

Framworks

Practical models connecting choices, habits, character, and direction.

My Mission

My mission is to advance the understanding and practical application of Behavioural Wellbeing. I want this work to help people examine their choices honestly, take appropriate responsibility for their direction, learn continuously, strengthen their character, develop healthier relationships, lead with integrity, and contribute meaningfully to the lives of others.

Ultimately, Behavioural Wellbeing is not about becoming flawless. It is about becoming more intentional. It is about understanding that repeated choices matter, that character can be strengthened, that growth remains possible, and that the direction of our lives is influenced by the behaviours we practise each day. To help people intentionally develop the behaviours that enable them to lead well, live with purpose, and become the person they are capable of becoming.