Although he chose to study law at Université Laval (Québec City), Richard Thibault has made a career in the communications sector, where he developed a solid, diversified expertise. After serving as moderator, reporter and T.V./radio researcher in the greater Québec City area, he became moderator of debates and public affairs officer at the National Assembly (Quebec) from 1979 to 1987.

During the next four years, Richard Thibault became, in order, press secretary for the Quebec Minister of Revenue and Minister of Labour under the government of Premier Robert Bourassa; special advisor and director of communications at the CSST (the Quebec occupational health and safety board); and then senior advisor at BDDS, one of Canada’s leading public relations firms. From 1991 to 1994, he was director of communications for the Quebec Nordiques Hockey Club, during the period when this team played in the National Hockey League (LNH).

In 1994, he founded Richard Thibault Communications Inc., which is active in two separate sectors. The first sector consists in communications consulting and the related services of strategic planning, crisis management, and public/corporate affairs management. The second sector is public speaking.

Since 1973, Richard Thibault has to his credit more than 15,000 hours of public speaking—in the theatre, on the radio and television, as a guest speaker or as a training instructor—during which he has aided hundreds of people become better communicators.