Richard Thieme has published hundreds of articles, dozens of short stories, two books (including Mind Games, a collection of short stories with more coming (FOAM, a novel, a serio-comic narrative of sex, secrets and intrigue, will be completed soon, followed by "The Room," a novelette about torture and the tortured), and he has given several thousand speeches. He speaks professionally about the challenges posed by new technologies and the future, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and creativity in response to radical change. Many recent speeches have addressed security and intelligence issues for professionals around the world. He has keynoted conferences in Sydney and Brisbane, Wellington and Auckland, Dublin Heidelberg and Berlin, Amsterdam, the Hague, and Rotterdam, Eilat Israel and Johannesburg South Africa, and the USA. Clients range from GE and Microsoft to the FBI, US Dept of the Treasury. and the US Secret Service. His pre-blog column, "Islands in the Clickstream," was distributed to thousands of subscribers in sixty countries before collection as a book by Syngress, a division of Elsevier.

His work has been taught at universities in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States, and he has guest lectured at numerous universities. He lives with his wife, Shirley, in Fox Point, Wisconsin.