About me

Dr Susan Kahn CPsychol

Business Psychologist

MA, MSc, PhD, PPABP

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.

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 is the Programme Director for Coaching Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, teaching coaching and organizational psychology. She runs a 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 develop their emotional intelligence. She also works as a group relations consultant, including equine coaching.

Her research interests embrace leadership, coaching, change and vulnerability at work.

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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 organisational 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.

Clients & collaborations

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AXA

Liberty Speciality Markets

M&S

The School of Life

NHG

Endava

The Allbright

LHH

The School of Life

West Midlands Everyday Heroes – championing councils’ workforce

The Guardian Masterclasses

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Deloitte

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ISPSO - International Society Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations

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BPS - British Psychological Society

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SGCP - Special Group Coaching Psychologists

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OPUS

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Otsuka

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