Society of Consulting Psychology

Organizational and systems change, a primary focus for many consulting psychologists and other professional consultants, requires a subtle knowledge of human organizations, cultures, and societies.

Skilled forensic consulting psychologists help clients prepare for courtroom trials. This book helps psychologists understand the demands of this challenging yet deeply rewarding field. Forensic psychologists may be hired to participate in jury selection and witness preparation, organize mock trials and focus groups to test arguments, provide expert testimony and psychological evaluation, and conduct posttrial interviews that yield useful information for future cases.

Coaching Psychology: Catalyzing Excellence in Organizational Leadership brings evidence-based methods and models to the practice of leadership coaching for professional and personal growth.

Assessment of executive and senior-level positions requires special consideration. Executive assessment is a specialized application of individual psychological assessment that is focused on executive and senior leadership positions. This population warrants special consideration because of the large and lasting impact they have on the health and vitality of an organization. Hiring or promotional mistakes can be costly.

This book presents a rich discussion of the opportunities organizational consultants have to impact the development of technical leaders, teams, and organizations. The expansion of the tech sector has revolutionized how processes are conducted in almost every realm, from farming to medicine to communication to retail and so much more.

An Introduction to Consulting Psychology: Working with Individuals, Groups, and Organizations by Rodney L. Lowman, PhD, Distinguished Professor, CSPP/Alliant International University.

This book surveys the rewarding consulting opportunities that await psychologists in national security settings and describes the strategies and skills that are required for succeeding in this unique field.

This book outlines a five-step process for designing and implementing learning interventions for individual employees, teams, and entire organizations. These interventions promote continuous learning, innovation, and organizational growth and productivity.

This book, based on the APA Ethics Code, reviews the unique ethical issues that psychologists encounter when working as consultants in business and other organizational settings at three levels of practice: individual, group, and organizational.

This book provides a broad introduction to consulting psychology that reviews assessment and intervention at three levels of competency — individual, group, and organizational — including how these levels interact.

This book provides a framework for addressing cultural conflicts within organizations, not just for consulting and organizational psychology practitioners, but for a broad spectrum of professionals, executives, and community leaders.

I liked how it focused on solid preparation for challenges and sound meaningful thinking and decision making even under stress. Also involved meaningful goal setting and pursuing goals. A book of many good adventures.

This is a book about seeing. The author, a cognitive scientist, shows us how much there is to see if we would really look.  It is a funny and readable book because she makes her points by taking us on 11 walks - mainly in her Manhattan neighborhood - with such companions as an urban sociologist, an artist, a geologist, a dog, a sound designer, a physician, and a 19-month-old child.

Starting with Henry Kissinger in the 60’s and examining the work of diplomats over the next 50 years, Stuart Eizenstat shares the inside story of international negotiators and how they served our country, shaped global agreements, and impacted the world around us.

What I learned from Gestalt Psychology is what helped me the most in shifting from the nomothetic paradigm (statistical analysis and prediction / norms / etc.) - to the idiographic paradigm — working 1:1 with an individual in leader/exec coaching (accepting as ‘valid data’ what an individual says (their data as they are thinking presently — versus I-O training (statistical analysis) ...

The most impactful in the practice of organizational effectiveness / big org change consultation - x  — as well as 1:1 coaching 

Timothy Egan, who writes history as engagingly as if it were fiction, tackled an under-reported and shameful era of our country in this account of the second wave of the Ku Klux Klan and the man who was its leader.

Rumelt is not a well-known strategist (a good thing). His book should haunt every consultant. It struck me that we've all enabled bad strategy - sitting silently while clients confuse "customer-centric value creation" with actual thinking, or watching executives produce 47-point "strategic plans" that commit to nothing.