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About

Dr Clare Mulligan-Foster (CPsychol) is the owner of CMC Business Psychology Ltd.

She is a BPS Chartered Coaching Psychologist and HCPC registered Occupational Psychologist. She is passionate about using the science of psychology to help people and organizations understand how to reach their goals. She is a scientist practitioner which means she uses an evidence-based approach to her work, using evidence from academic research and practitioner experience.

Clare is an Chartered Coaching Psychologist and an EMCC accredited coach. She regularly coaches leaders and executives from a wide range of industries. Her coaching is based on academic theory and coaching best practices, and she can adapt her approach to support leaders’ unique needs. Clare will provide a confidential space to allow reflection and thought, but also a space to challenge the coachee and help leaders face their concerns and also thrive in their careers.

Clare believes in the strength of reflective practice for leaders and enjoys supporting leaders in developing their self-awareness and building strategies for their ongoing reflexive work. Self-awareness can assist leaders in building their confidence, resilience, and focus and coaching is ideal to create the space for leaders to develop their awareness.

Clare also specializes in neuropsychology, bias, and decision-making, and helps leaders understand how to develop their mindset to be more inclusive and to challenge their bounded awareness to help build relationships, strategic thinking and decision-making.

Specialist Fields

Clare works with organisations and individuals in different areas of organisational behaviour including team and leadership development but she has specialisms in certain areas which are her research and practitioner focus.

Clare’s coaching specialism in career development and transition in older workers. She helps individuals and organisations support longer life career management and age friendly workplaces. Her Doctorate research was in older workers career transitions, exploring why people leave organisational roles to create contemporary careers.

Clare’s practice and research is about helping build inclusive workforces that meet the demands of the changing and future workplaces. She provides consultant support to HR leaders to assist with developing workforces and HR strategies to meet the future strategic needs of their organisation and industry.

Accreditation

To support work with clients and coachees, Clare believes strongly in the ethics and professional responsibility of her profession. To support her professional responsibility she engages in her own supervision, education, research and CPD. She is a member of several professional bodies as noted below and abides by their professional standards, ethics and regulation.

Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychology Society (BPS)
The title of Chartered Psychologist is legally recognised and reflects only the highest standard of psychological knowledge and expertise

Registered Occupational Psychologist with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Chartered Business Psychologist is given in recognition of attainment against the ABP Business Psychology Framework for knowledge, skills and experience of applying Business Psychology in organisations.

Qualifications And Professional Associations

Clare holds a, Professional Doctorate in Work and Organisational Psychology from Birkbeck University of London, an MSc in Work and Organisational Psychology from Dublin City University (DCU), a BA in Psychology from Dublin Business School (DBS). Clare is also a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychology Society (BPS) meaning she abides by their ethics and professional standards. She is a current co-chair for the BPS North-West Branch. She is a member of the BPS Division of Occupational Psychologists, BPS special group in Coaching Psychology, a committee member for the BPS Special Group for Independent practitioners. As well as keeping up to date with her profession, Clare ensures her committee work allows her to give back to her profession and support other psychologists.

Accreditations and roles

Clare is registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) as a practitioner Occupational Psychologist. Only those registered with the HCPC can use the title of ‘Occupational Psychologist’ and are subject to meeting the standards of proficiency as part of the profession.Clare is an accredited coach and holds a certificate in executive coaching and mentoring from ILM. She is a member European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) to support her professional development and learning.Clare is also a senior lecturer working with different universities, and also works part time as co-programme director for part 1 of the Professional Doctorate in Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck University of London. In her role as programme director, she supports Psychologists who are ‘Practitioners in Training’ to achieve their academic success and to enable them to reach the standard for HCPC registration for ‘practitioner psychologist’.

Clients And Testimonials

Clients describe Clare as engaging, passionate and professional. She has worked with a range of clients from Civil Service, public sector, professional services, and small business and can readily adapt her style and knowledge to suit the context. Clare regularly speaks at conferences and corporate events and is in demand for her knowledge and easy, relaxed style in which she can convey theory in a fun and engaging way.

Below is some of the testimonials she has received;

All was great, the presentation you delivered, far exceed my expectations actually. It was brilliantly presented, clear, informative, educational and inspiring, and was positively received by all as a credible and thoughtful understanding of how we think and behave in the world. More importantly, I felt it was done with authority and empathy in how you communicated and presented it all, so thank you very much.
Chief People Officer
Thank you very much for putting together a really interesting workshop, found it very worthwhile and have lots to take away
Liked the interaction before the presentation and appreciated the handout that accompanied the presentation. the content is useful and it was great to get reading lists for more information on the topic
Great course, training was excellent and great experience in the area
A huge thank you for the fantastic input and advice through the coaching conversations
Senior Manager, Accountancy Firm
Excellent session that exceeded expectations. Excellent delivery. Lively and interactive
Senior Manager, Accountancy Firm
Love the knowledge Clare has and how she put it over to us with a good mix of discussion. Love the activities- very thought provoking
Senior Manager, Accountancy Firm
I think this has been the best training I've had in years!
Senior Manager, Accountancy Firm
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Clients

Clare has worked with a wide range of clients and some of the examples are given below.

  • BNY Mellon
  • Central Statistics Office
  • Citi Bank
  • Coca Cola
  • DeCare Dental
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
  • Dept of the Taoiseach
  • EIR
  • ESB Ireland
  • GAM investments
  • IBEC
  • KBC Ireland
  • Liverpool John Moore University
  • Manchester University NHS
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Oracle
  • PayPal
  • Royal College of Surgeons Ireland
  • Siemens
  • Sodexo
  • Trinity College Dublin

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