The Black Business Psychology Podcast

Today's epside we have Dr Daniel Acheampong, a qualified Child and Educational Psychologist. Daniel has worked with children and young people for over 15 years through being a research assistant, qualified teacher and now qualified educational psychologist. In this episode Daniel charts his route to his career from school to present day. If you are interested in this route to psychology, pleas...

Today's episode welcomes Yinka Adesina, a HR professional focusing on organisational change, career coaching and digital talent management. Yinka started her career after her BSc in Psychology with Business at the University of Hertfordshire. She has since specialised in improving digital talent management and learning platforms. Partnering with senior stakeholders to support strategic, tech-e...

This episode is part one of the interview with Dr Amber Qureshi and Dr Ron Dodzro who are both qualified Clinical Psychologists. Dr. Ron Dodzro, is a  Senior Clinical Psychologist at a charity focused on community violence prevention and doing direct clinical work at Juvenis in Brixton. Dr Amber Qureshi talks about her work as a specialist clinical psychologist in an NHS Youth Justice Service. The...

This is part two of the previous episode featuring Dr Amber Qureshi and Dr Ron Dodzro, both qualified clinical psychologists. This part focuses on Amber's path to the profession and how the profession can be more inclusive.

Today, our episode features Jodine Williams, a BPS Chartered Sports and Exercise Psychologist and a CASES Sports Scientist. Listen along to hear more about Jodine's journey.

In this episode we have Dr Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya. Dr Uracha is a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck University, University of London in Human Resource Management. Her journey to the role of senior lecturer took her from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and the UK, where she forged her career in organisational psychology. She completed an MSc in Occupational Psychology followed by a PhD at M...

Welcome to the latest episode of the podcast. Today we are hearing from William Annang. William is currently a trainee cognitive behavioural therapist and has previously had roles as a psychological wellbeing practitioner, assistant psychologist and assistant occupational therapist. Listen to the really interesting and inspiring career of William.

Dr Sula Windgassen is a chartered health psychologist who has also completed a PhD in psychological medicine at King's College, London researching how psychological factors impact irritable bowel syndrome. Dr Windgassen is also a cognitive behavioural therapist and a mindfulness teacher. She also is a specialist in using eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR), which is a trauma focus...

This week's episode is the last episode of the year and features co-founder of consultancy Pearn Kandola, Professor Binna Kandola, OBE. Professor Kandola speaks about his career as an undergraduate student at the University of Cardiff and then completing a PhD. He then worked at the consultancy SHL before he left to begin his own practice with his co-founder Dr Michael Pearn, at Pearn Kandola. You...

On today's episode we have Dr Christeen George. Christeen has a long career in psychology and after initially wanting to pursue clinical psychology and her application being sent to the wrong university, she embarked on a fruitful and extremely interesting career in occupational psychology. She has worked in public sector organisations and universities as well as private consultancy during her car...

In today's episode we have guest, Shyaam Bundy. Shy is a multidisciplinary pathway worker in Essex, UK working in neurodevelopmental & mood and anxiety pathway in an integrated Emotional Well-being & Mental Health Service.  Along with having an undergraduate degree in psychology, Shy is also trained as a Therapeutic Play Worker at the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education in Lon...

Dr Ruwayne Kock is an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed his PhD at the University of Johannesburg and runs a consultancy called Authentic Organisations . It was founded to help marginalized professionals such as racial-ethnic groups, young people, women, LGBTI+ and people with disabilities to be the best they can be in the workplace. Dr Ko...

This episode is our second and last episode featuring Elliot Miller, trainee clinical psychologist studying at the University of East London. Hear more about Elliot's journey to clinical psychology here. 

Today's episode features incoming clinical psychologist, Elliot miller who will be starting his training at the University of East London in the next few weeks. Elliot wanted to be a vet as a youngster and as soon as he was exposed to psychology during his A-levels. Elliot worked as a support worker,  psychological assistant,  and more recently a psychological wellbeing practitioner. &nb...

This weeks podcast episode brings someone who has studied an undergraduate degree in psychology, then went on to pursue a qualification in psychotherapy and counselling, alongside managing projects in the third sector. Maame Blue is now an author having published her debut book in 2020, called Bad love. The episode focuses on Maame's unique journey and how she uses psychological knowledge in her w...

This episode features Dr Rima Lamba, Counselling Psychologist and founder of private practice Blue River Psychology . Dr Lamba's work focuses on working therapeutically with women and couples from ethnically minoritised groups, especially women from South Asian backgrounds. She also specialises in transgenerational trauma, feminism, the patriarchy and issues of race, equality and inclusion. In thi...

Rebecca Francis is a qualified Speech and Language Therapist who currently works for a third sector organisation. She specialises in working with children and young people. Her background she studied psychology studied for undergrad and completed a thin sandwich 4 year degree allowing her to have a few placements. She then went on to secure an assistant speech and language therapist role and then...

This week we have a guest, Yannick Yalipende. Yannick is currently training as a Clinical Associate Psychologist in the NHS and completing an MSc in Applied Neuropsychology from the University of Bristol. Yannick is also the Founding Director of Black People Talk (BPT) ; an organisation that supports the mental health of the UK’s Black community through psychoeducational and therapeutic peer suppo...

In today's episode we bring special guest, Dr Luke Brown who is a Clinical Psychologist with two doctoral degrees! Luke became interested in studying psychology at a young age and he completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology and Criminology at Keele University and then went on to complete an MRes at the University of Birmingham focussing on research around clinical psychology. He then becam...

This week's guest is Dr Ken Greaves. He is a specialist senior educational psychologist with over 20 years of experience working with children and adults in local authorities in East London. Dr Greaves has also worked and consulted for the Lorna Wing Centres, which were established to diagnose and provide support for those who are on the autistic spectrum. He now works privately and consults with...

This is one of my most exciting episodes (I say this about every episode!) with two very accomplished mental health social workers, Laurie Johnson-Mathison and Jan-Michael McIntosh. Laurie completed his undergraduate degree in psychology and wanted to continue to study to become a clinical psychologist; however, when working in practical mental health settings he then became more interested in the...

This is our 20th episode! Thank you all for your support. This episode we introduce Milimo Ninvalle, who is a senior programmes manager at a charity. She manages implements and oversees programmes all over the world to increase international development. The areas her projects focus on include education, sustainability and emergency provisions. Milimo is completed an undergraduate in psychology bu...

This week's episode features Dr Ernest Darkwah who is a lecturer at the University of Ghana in Psychology in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Workplace Health. Dr Darkwah completed his undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Ghana, he then went on to study an MPhil which got upgraded to a PhD research study when he gained a scholarship to study at the University of Berg...

We are back today with another episode. We had a little hiatus to gather more guests and edit the episodes all in lock down number 2/3. Today we have Prince Offei who is a registered psychotherapist and counsellor based in Accra, Ghana. Counselor Prince Offei completed his undergraduate at Cape Coast University, Ghana.  Prince kindly speaks about his journey to study psychology, his experienc...

This episode is featuring Krupa Suthar, who is a lead user researcher at the department of health and social care. Krupa has had a really varied and interesting career which started off in research, then education as a primary school teacher and then continued applying psychology to corporate research in many well-known brands.