The Black Business Psychology Podcast

Today's epside we have Dr Daniel Acheampong, a qualified Child and Educational Psychologist. Daniel has worked with children and young people for over 15 years through being a research assistant, qualified teacher and now qualified educational psychologist. In this episode Daniel charts his route to his career from school to present day. If you are interested in this route to psychology, please listen and share it with others.

Today's episode welcomes Yinka Adesina, a HR professional focusing on organisational change, career coaching and digital talent management. Yinka started her career after her BSc in Psychology with Business at the University of Hertfordshire. She has since specialised in improving digital talent management and learning platforms. Partnering with senior stakeholders to support strategic, tech-enabled talent and OD solutions that support business priorities using ProSci adopted change methodology. She then completed her MSc in Business Psychology at the University of East London in 2025. Listen more about her career embraces both organisational psychology and HR and business management principles

This episode is part one of the interview with Dr Amber Qureshi and Dr Ron Dodzro who are both qualified Clinical Psychologists. Dr. Ron Dodzro, is a  Senior Clinical Psychologist at a charity focused on community violence prevention and doing direct clinical work at Juvenis in Brixton. Dr Amber Qureshi talks about her work as a specialist clinical psychologist in an NHS Youth Justice Service. They are both co founders of their community interest company, Psychologist the Streets Deserve.The pair discuss how their combined experiences across approximately ten different placements during their training highlighted significant gaps in provision for people who experience community violence, leading them to set up their Community Interest Company (CIC). They reflect candidly on the long and often challenging road to qualifying as clinical psychologists. 

This is part two of the previous episode featuring Dr Amber Qureshi and Dr Ron Dodzro, both qualified clinical psychologists. This part focuses on Amber's path to the profession and how the profession can be more inclusive.

Today, our episode features Jodine Williams, a BPS Chartered Sports and Exercise Psychologist and a CASES Sports Scientist. Listen along to hear more about Jodine's journey.

In this episode we have Dr Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya. Dr Uracha is a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck University, University of London in Human Resource Management. Her journey to the role of senior lecturer took her from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and the UK, where she forged her career in organisational psychology. She completed an MSc in Occupational Psychology followed by a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her first lecturing role was at Middlesex University, where she stayed for over ten years. Dr Uracha's research areas include My research interests are: Unequal working lives and careers 'Diversity' and intersectionality at work Lived experience of marginalized and minoritized workers in the workplace Work-life balance (WLB) and transitions over the life course Assisted fertility and work 'Agile working' as a managerial agenda Qualitative methodologies You can find out more about her work here

Welcome to the latest episode of the podcast. Today we are hearing from William Annang. William is currently a trainee cognitive behavioural therapist and has previously had roles as a psychological wellbeing practitioner, assistant psychologist and assistant occupational therapist. Listen to the really interesting and inspiring career of William.

Dr Sula Windgassen is a chartered health psychologist who has also completed a PhD in psychological medicine at King's College, London researching how psychological factors impact irritable bowel syndrome. Dr Windgassen is also a cognitive behavioural therapist and a mindfulness teacher. She also is a specialist in using eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR), which is a trauma focussed approach. She combines working theraputically with clients with health conditions, research and consultancy, In this episode Dr Sula highlights her career path, from initially studying law at university and then switching to psychology, her path was set. She then completed a PhD and did a separate stage two qualification to become a chartered health psychologist.  After hearing about this unique career path, if you want to find out more about Dr Sula's practice and work you can find out about here here https://www.healthpsychologist.co.uk/

This week's episode is the last episode of the year and features co-founder of consultancy Pearn Kandola, Professor Binna Kandola, OBE. Professor Kandola speaks about his career as an undergraduate student at the University of Cardiff and then completing a PhD. He then worked at the consultancy SHL before he left to begin his own practice with his co-founder Dr Michael Pearn, at Pearn Kandola. You can find out more about Pearn Kandola and the work that they do here. 

On today's episode we have Dr Christeen George. Christeen has a long career in psychology and after initially wanting to pursue clinical psychology and her application being sent to the wrong university, she embarked on a fruitful and extremely interesting career in occupational psychology. She has worked in public sector organisations and universities as well as private consultancy during her career, including the University of Hertfordshire and the University of West London.