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Prince Harry Steps Down as BetterUp Chief Impact Officer

Frances KelsallPublished 3m ago2 min readBased on 10 sources
Prince Harry Steps Down as BetterUp Chief Impact Officer
Photo by File:Prince Harry arrives at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London 20 January 2020 (49413820711).jpg: DFID - UK Department for International Development derivative work: Minerva97 / CC BY 2.0

Prince Harry has stepped down as chief impact officer at BetterUp, the mental health company, and become one of its senior advisors. Hello! Magazine reported the change on 9 November 2026.

A chief impact officer is a senior executive title. Harry had held the post at BetterUp since 2021. The company's chief executive, Alexi Robichaux, said the new role will focus on key projects with some of BetterUp's largest enterprise customers, meaning big business clients that buy its services for their staff.

BetterUp said the change gives Harry more time to grow his portfolio of investments, which is the set of businesses and funds he backs, and to pursue new business opportunities. It also said he will have more time to support philanthropic causes, meaning charitable work.

The move comes after Harry returned to live in the UK in August 2026, leaving his home in Montecito, California. He was 41 at the time. In an interview published on 20 October, People reported that he said the reasons for the move were to be closer to his family and to spend longer on British soil than a few days at a time.

Harry's royal status has been settled since 2020. In January of that year, he and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, stepped back as working members of the Royal Family. A statement from Buckingham Palace said the couple would no longer use their HRH titles, the abbreviation for "His Royal Highness" and "Her Royal Highness". In September 2026, the BBC reported that the King had said Harry and Meghan are not working royals.

On the same national day of remembrance, Harry attended a Remembrance service in Brackley, Northamptonshire. Members of the royal family attended the Cenotaph service in London, the war memorial on Whitehall that is the centre of the official national ceremony.

For readers following the story, the change is a shift in job title and focus rather than a change in the couple's status. The company's statement describes Harry's new role in terms of projects and time, not in terms of a royal duty.

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