DIVISION OF OCCUPATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2021
THURSDAY 7 - FRIDAY 8 JANUARY 2021, VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Affiliation
Pearn Kandola LLP
Bio
Professor Binna Kandola OBE is a Business Psychologist, Senior Partner and co-founder of Pearn Kandola. Over the past 35 years, he has worked on a wide variety of projects for public and private sector clients both in the UK and overseas.
As well as leading the practice, Binna is particularly interested in the study of gender bias and unconscious bias in organisations. He is the author of three critically acclaimed books on these subjects – ‘The Invention of Difference: The story of gender bias at work’, ‘The Value of Difference: Eliminating bias in organisations’, and ‘Racism at Work: The Danger of Indifference’.
His most recent book, 'Free to Soar: Race & Wellbeing in Organisations', which he edited, explores the relationship between race and wellbeing in the workplace.
He is also the co-author of several other management books. One of which, ‘Managing the Mosaic’, won a Special Commendation at the 1994 Management Book of the Year Awards.
Binna was the first Chair of the Standing Committee for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a member of Sir Robin Butler’s Panel of Enquiry into Equal Opportunities in the Senior Civil Service. He has also been a member of the Board of Trustees of the BPS, and in 2002 was elected as Chair of the Division of Occupational Psychology. Additionally, in January 2004, Binna was invited to join the UK Government’s National Employment Panel and appointed Chair of the Minority Ethnic Group.
He is currently a visiting Professor at Leeds University Business School and at Aston University Business School. In 2012 the University of Aston awarded him an Honorary DSc. Binna was awarded an OBE in 2008 for his services to Disadvantaged People and Diversity and he is also on the Asian Power List 2020.
Binna is a sought after and highly regarded conference speaker and a regular contributor to the media. He has appeared on Sky News, BBC Breakfast, Channel 4 News and the Radio 4 Today Show.
Title
How to Become an Occupational Psychologist: Starting out and Managing Your Trajectory (…when the world has changed abruptly)
Abstract
In 2019, we published a book – How to Become an Occupational Psychologist. It detailed the main challenges and requirements for training as an OP, and included more than a few personal reflections on what it means to be one. Then at the beginning of 2020, of course, the world changed, suddenly and unexpectedly. This change has had a profound effect on the nature of work. We therefore want to think about the implications for the advice we gave in the book, especially around our final chapter, which focused on starting out in the career and managing the trajectory that one takes.
In this session, we will reflect on that advice, and consider where it is still sound, and how and in what ways it may need to change now in the immediate term. We’ll also think about the future and any long-term implications that the present may have on how we start out as OP practitioners in the future.
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Affiliation
Pearn Kandola LLP
Bio
Professor Binna Kandola OBE is a Business Psychologist, Senior Partner and co-founder of Pearn Kandola. Over the past 35 years, he has worked on a wide variety of projects for public and private sector clients both in the UK and overseas.
As well as leading the practice, Binna is particularly interested in the study of gender bias and unconscious bias in organisations. He is the author of three critically acclaimed books on these subjects – ‘The Invention of Difference: The story of gender bias at work’, ‘The Value of Difference: Eliminating bias in organisations’, and ‘Racism at Work: The Danger of Indifference’.
His most recent book, 'Free to Soar: Race & Wellbeing in Organisations', which he edited, explores the relationship between race and wellbeing in the workplace.
He is also the co-author of several other management books. One of which, ‘Managing the Mosaic’, won a Special Commendation at the 1994 Management Book of the Year Awards.
Binna was the first Chair of the Standing Committee for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a member of Sir Robin Butler’s Panel of Enquiry into Equal Opportunities in the Senior Civil Service. He has also been a member of the Board of Trustees of the BPS, and in 2002 was elected as Chair of the Division of Occupational Psychology. Additionally, in January 2004, Binna was invited to join the UK Government’s National Employment Panel and appointed Chair of the Minority Ethnic Group.
He is currently a visiting Professor at Leeds University Business School and at Aston University Business School. In 2012 the University of Aston awarded him an Honorary DSc. Binna was awarded an OBE in 2008 for his services to Disadvantaged People and Diversity and he is also on the Asian Power List 2020.
Binna is a sought after and highly regarded conference speaker and a regular contributor to the media. He has appeared on Sky News, BBC Breakfast, Channel 4 News and the Radio 4 Today Show.
Title
How to Become an Occupational Psychologist: Starting out and Managing Your Trajectory (…when the world has changed abruptly)
Abstract
In 2019, we published a book – How to Become an Occupational Psychologist. It detailed the main challenges and requirements for training as an OP, and included more than a few personal reflections on what it means to be one. Then at the beginning of 2020, of course, the world changed, suddenly and unexpectedly. This change has had a profound effect on the nature of work. We therefore want to think about the implications for the advice we gave in the book, especially around our final chapter, which focused on starting out in the career and managing the trajectory that one takes.
In this session, we will reflect on that advice, and consider where it is still sound, and how and in what ways it may need to change now in the immediate term. We’ll also think about the future and any long-term implications that the present may have on how we start out as OP practitioners in the future.
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