Dr Nelisha Wickremasinghe is a psychologist, author, educator and international leadership/organisational change consultant who has worked in the field of human development for 25 years.
Nelisha works internationally with large corporates teaching and consulting on healthy growth. Her work at the boundary of psychotherapeutic practice and management development has taken her across the globe to support organisations like Fujitsu, Karcher, Amec Foster Wheeler, Nielsen, Lloyds Banking Group, Aviva and BT to develop their leaders and implement complex change.
Nelisha is an Associate Fellow at the Said Business School, an associate consultant at Ashridge Hult business school and managing director of her own practice, The Dialogue Space, which provides unconventional, whole-person facilitation and coaching for individuals, groups and organisations. Prior to this she created and ran a successful organic food business and restaurant and, for ten years, was clinical and management lead in mental health and social care services.
Nelisha’s professional practice combines brain science and developmental psychology to develop individual, team and system resilience and collaboration in increasingly volatile times. Her areas of teaching expertise and interest are: personal resilience, team collaboration, working with and through conflict, using creative methodologies to support deep personal inquiry, and performance and impact coaching. Her book, Beyond Threat, distils many years of research and practice in organisations and explores how executives working in different corporate environments can identify and overcome their problem habits arising from an overactive ‘threat brain’.
Nelisha’s research focuses on whether greater self-compassion might increase personal resilience, collaboration with others and sustainable performance and satisfaction in organisational life. She is currently researching and writing her second book which explores the challenges of being with others and how we might develop greater relational resilience.
She has postgraduate degrees in psychology and family therapy, a Masters in public sector management and a Masters and Doctorate in organisational change.