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Dr Michael Hymans

Ph D., M.Sc.; MBA; B.Sc. Hons; Cert. Ed.; C.Psychol.; AFBPsS.; ACMI.

Michael Hymans has been a chartered psychologist for over twenty five years. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a full (committee) member of the Division of Educational and Child Psychology in the capacity of press & media officer. Michael has a MBA and has a particular interest in the emotional health of organisations, especially in the areas of leadership and team development, change management and resiliency.

Michael worked as a psychologist in the public sector for many years including as a Head of Local Authority Educational Psychology Service. He has also worked in the voluntary sector, latterly as an ‘expert’ in special educational needs for a Children and Family Services organisation and serves as a consultant on their Operational Services Committee. In both organisations he has provided on-going coaching for individual and groups of staff.

He has delivered staff training in mainstream, special and independent schools in the use of thinking skills and in “creating a dynamic school”. He has designed and delivered a ‘leading learning’ training programme to senior leadership teams in schools and a ‘transforming situational leadership’ programme for senior psychologists nationally.

Michael has also developed a methodology for eliciting core competencies for educational psychologists at a London university and has applied the same methodology for knowledge management and team development in the public sector.

Michael has written two books for teachers in schools in the areas of thinking skills and co-operative learning and, more recently he has had a book published for senior leaders on whole school approaches to anger management: he is currently writing a book for senior school staff on motivation and learning in the secondary school.