Rick Brooks has been director of Virtual Business Links, a management consultancy focusing on organisational effectiveness, since 1997.
Mr Brooks has served on the board of Sexual Health Quarters (formerly Family Planning Association of WA) since 2015, and became the organisation's chair in 2019.
In 2021, he was appointed an independent director of indigenous corporation Derbarl Yerrigan Health Services. At the time of his appointment to that position, DYHS's administrators cited Mr Brooks' consultancy work with The General Gumala Foundation in 2018.