Richard Brunton was a pioneer in New Zealand’s market research industry. In 1981, he co-founded Colmar Brunton and grew it into the country’s most trusted and well-known research company. Three years later, he had a life-changing encounter with Christ.

After retiring as Chief Executive in 2014, Richard dedicated himself to healing and deliverance ministries through Charisma Christian Ministries. In 2015, God gave him a powerful revelation about the transformative power of blessing—especially a father’s blessing.

This insight led him to write the practical, life-changing booklet The Awesome Power of Blessing, first published in 2016, with expanded editions in 2017 and 2019. The book became a bestseller in New Zealand, selling over 180,000 copies.

Building on this success, he wrote Anointed for Work and later The Blessing Effect in 2020. Today, over 2 million copies of his books are in circulation across 49 countries, translated into 51 languages.

The impact has been remarkable, with testimonies of restored marriages, healed parent-child relationships, emotional and physical healings, deliverances, curses broken, transformed situations, and countless salvations.