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Pat Thompson

Managing Director and Principal Consultant Psychologist

Pat is the Managing Director of Thompson Dunn Ltd and is the creative foundation for the Decision Profile you see today.

An expert in the field of leadership assessment and development, she has over 30 years of international experience working with top level individuals, teams and organisations. Pat’s interests are in working with CEOs, organisational culture and creativity in business. Her experience is global in terms of the companies with which she works.

Pat’s business career began in recruitment working as a pioneering business psychologist for Michael Page and later Whitehead Mann, now Korn Ferry, in the audit and assessment of top level individuals and teams. She created Thompson Dunn in 1990 with the desire to focus on the long-term needs of corporate clients. Her career began in education where she became a senior psychologist for the Inner London Education Authority.

Pat has an honours degree in Psychology and Postgraduate Certificate in Education from Manchester University. She holds an Msc in Developmental Psychology from London University and later studied for an Msc in Organisational Consulting from Hult Ashridge Business School. She is a Chartered Psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Founder Member of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychologists.