Dr Susan Kahn is a Business Psychologist: a coach, lecturer, consultant and mediator. A committed lifelong learner, she is the Programme Director for the Postgraduate Coaching Certificate at Birkbeck, University of London, teaching leaders how to coach. Susan is an inaugural member of the Business Faculty at The School of Life, where she teaches and facilitates emotional intelligence in the workplace.
Her coaching work helps executives in diverse sectors perform authentically and effectively. She also works with equine coaching and has appeared on the BBC.
She is a speaker and has lectured at conferences globally as a member of ISPSO, the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations. Susan works as a group relations consultant, exploring and examining group dynamics, particularly those below the surface.
Her first book, Death and the City, tackled loss, mourning and melancholia at work and is an examination of the experience of organizational endings during the financial crisis. Her study using psychoanalytic observation as a research tool was awarded a prize by Birkbeck.
Her latest publication, Bounce Back, brings her work together. Recognising vulnerability in herself and in others lies at the core of all her work.
She lives in London with her husband, family and very noisy dog.