Society of Consulting Psychology

October 28, 2024 6:00-7:00 EST We invite you to attend a monthly one hour Town Hall via zoom hosted by Marc Sokol, our 2024 SCP President. This is an opportunity to come together as a professional community, to share your experience and discover that of other SCP members. Each month we will start with a topic of interest featuring some aspect of our society. We will then open it up to wider discussion of any topics those online wish to bring up. 2024 Town Halls meetings will feature an array of topics including: How did mentors shape the progress of your career? How can peer coaching raise your game as a consultant? Best consulting practices from a member of our Financial Psychology Special Interest Group Consulting to the United Nations and how you can contribute How consulting to a family business is different (we have a Special Interest Group for that!) Do you want to publish a professional book? Tips from our Consulting Series editor. Our October Town Hall Focus: How Psychologists Can Address Financial Concerns of High Earning and Ultra High Net Worth Executives Every year, surveys appear highlighting the top stressors of North Americans; every year, "money" is at or near the top of most of those surveys. While the links between poverty and reductions in well-being have long been understood, less is known about the particular financial stressors affecting many affluent executives and their families. Dr. Moira Somers will facilitate a discussion on the financial concerns commonly voiced by enterprise-owning families around the globe. How do the financial prejudices or biases of consultants and executive coaches affect the quality of the work they are able to do with such clients? What is it we do as consulting psychologists that can create ‘advice that sticks”? Dr. Moira Somers is a Family Wealth Consultant and the Chief Learning Officer for Blackwood Family Enterprise Services. The author of Advice that Sticks, she consults widely on how client outcomes are directly affected by the behaviour of advice-giving professionals (including consultants, clinicians and coaches) and the implementation support they provide. See below for a schedule of Town Halls planned for the year. Members can complete the registration form once and receive monthly invites and reminders. You can also invite a non-member who might like to learn more about SCP by having them complete a registration form as well. Time: 6:00-7:00 Eastern  Dates:  Monday, October 28 -- Moira Somers “Advice that sticks!” who previously led our Financial Psychology SIG Monday, Nov 25 -- Larry Norton and Ann Howell, "How AI and other technologies are transforming consulting psychology” Monday, Dec 16 -- Christine Allen, "Team coaching and team dynamics” Saturday, Jan 13 -- TBD

November 25, 2024 6:00-7:00 EST We invite you to attend a monthly one hour Town Hall via zoom hosted by Marc Sokol, our 2024 SCP President. This is an opportunity to come together as a professional community, to share your experience and discover that of other SCP members. Each month we will start with a topic of interest featuring some aspect of our society. We will then open it up to wider discussion of any topics those online wish to bring up. 2024 Town Halls meetings will feature an array of topics including: How did mentors shape the progress of your career? How can peer coaching raise your game as a consultant? Best consulting practices from a member of our Financial Psychology Special Interest Group Consulting to the United Nations and how you can contribute How consulting to a family business is different (we have a Special Interest Group for that!) Do you want to publish a professional book? Tips from our Consulting Series editor. Our November Town Hall Focus: How AI and other technologies are transforming consulting psychology. In this session, we'll talk about the impact of AI on consulting psychologists such as the impact on core consulting areas (HR areas, selection assessments, coaching, OD, etc.), how consulting psychologists can leverage AI and how to get informed in or to be part of setting the future of AI. Ann Howell, PhD has built a career doing talent management work in large companies and working as an executive coach. Her interest in AI comes from taking a 6-month technology bootcamp and regularly addressing AI topics in her current role looking after assessments at Shell. Larry W. Norton, PhD. After a long corporate career, Larry consults broadly in the OD domain and is on the graduate faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas School of Management. His interest in AI led to formal training and presenting at conferences and workshops. He currently has two peer-reviewed AI publications in press. Time: 6:00-7:00 Eastern  Upcoming Dates:  Monday, Dec 16 -- Christine Allen, "Team coaching and team dynamics” Saturday, Jan 13 -- TBD