Dr Susan Kahn CPsychol
Business Psychologist
MA, MSc, PhD, Fellow ABP
WORKING BELOW THE SURFACE
Susan is a business psychologist, a practitioner and an academic. She is a Chartered Psychologist and Coaching Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a Fellow of the Association of Business Psychologists (ABP).
She works as a coach, consultant, mediator and an observer of working life. She has a particular interest in the behaviour of people at work and below the surface dynamics in organisations.
As a coach she works together with individuals and their organisations to help clients to develop and enhance their authentic leadership style.
As a mediator she is skilled in improving working relationships and developing common understanding between parties in toxic relationships.
She has taught coaching psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, for a decade and developed the Masters programme in 2019. Previously programme director she now teaches as a guest fellow on the Post Graduate Certificate in Coaching Psychology and an MSc in Coaching Psychology.
She is a faculty member at the School of Life, working with businesses to help them Learn, Heal and Grow. She also works as a group relations consultant, including equine coaching.
Her research interests embrace leadership, coaching, change and vulnerability at work.
She is a board member of This Can Happen: empowering workplace mental health.
Her book, Death & the City, published by Karnac, uses psychoanalysis to explore organizational endings. Her latest publication, Bounce Back: how to fail fast and be resilient at work is published by Kogan Page, examines resilience in the workplace. She is currently working on a new book.
BACKGROUND & QUALIFICATIONS
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PhD, Birkbeck
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MSc Conflict Resolution & Mediation, Birkbeck
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MA Consulting to Organisations using Psychoanalytic Methods, Tavistock and University of East London
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BA Combined Studies: Anthropology & Sociology, University of Manchester
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
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Chartered Psychologist BPS
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Chartered Coaching Psychologist BPS
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Coaching Psychology Approved Supervisor - Register of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors - BPS
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Fellow Association of Business Psychologists (ABP)
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International Society for Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations
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OPUS Organisation Promoting Understanding Society
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WPA & WPA Protocol registered.
FACULTY & BOARD POSITIONS
CLIENTS & COLLABORATIONS
PASSIONS & INTERESTS
Outside of work I am very family orientated and love hosting and visiting.
I have edited five cookbooks for charity and love food and its presentation however I am a very poor follower of recipes and always experiment, not always successfully!
I am committed to the care and treatment of wounded and traumatised veterans in my voluntary work and support mental health charities.
I am a keen reader and in the last few years a huge fan of listening to books and podcasts whenever I am on the move.
Favourite podcasts:
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Hidden Brain
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TED radio hour
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The Rest is Politics
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How to Fail
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The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Edgy Ideas with Simon Western
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The News Agents
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Revisionist History
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Philosophize This!