Paul Duignan Consulting is an applied psychology consultancy specializing in strategy, planning, outcomes, organizational development, facilitation, implementation and impact evaluation; the business, social, and psychological implications of artificial intelligence; complex societal risk management; and clinical and leadership psychology.
RECENT
Paul’s new book out soon! Surfing AI: 30 Fresh Terms and Smarter Ways of Talking About Artificial Intelligence. Info.
update yourself or your clients by Watching Paul’s new video on the skills AI has acquired in the last six months.
Paul’s Latest podcast, his full presentation on Eight Questions Educators Should Ask About Artificial Intelligence.
Use The cHILL tool to deal with AI-anxiety. aI is sweeping the world and causing concern for some people. here is how to chill out and deal with it.
9-minute radio clip and transcript on AI including brief discussion of some concepts from paul’s new book Surfing AI.
Workshops and webinars
We offer workshops and webinars on AI impact for companies, organisations and schools. Get in touch.
Recent Media pieces on AI and other topics
Recent short media interviews on AI. Effect of chatbots and AI on jobs, particularly white-collar jobs, on education and assessment and on how politics may be flooded with well-written propaganda.
Applied psychology Consulting Work
We apply principles from individual, strategy, and social psychology when working with individuals, organizations, and society.
Strategy and impact evaluation: We consult on organizational and societal strategy, and evaluate the impact of initiatives. Getting strategy right is high-stakes work. We focus on developing improved strategic tools, such as our ground-breaking work in visual planning, which enable strategy groups to clarify their models of desired outcomes and prioritize the steps they need to take to achieve them.
Artificial intelligence: From a psychological perspective, this is an unprecedented time. For the first time, we are seeing the arrival of another highly intelligent entity in the world. It is essential to study AI, optimize its integration, and—most importantly—develop ways to work alongside it. We are about to publish a book on the business, social, and psychological implications of AI – Surfing AI.
Societal-level risk management and decision-making: We live in an age of risk—AI, climate change, social fragmentation, and geopolitical tensions all present major challenges. Our work addresses the psychological and institutional barriers to effective risk management in high-stakes distributed decision-making. This includes our approach to What-If Planning, which helps organizations manage the risks associated with today’s environment of pervasive uncertainty.
Individual psychology: We work at the intersection of clinical psychology and high-level coaching, supporting selected CEOs, executive board members, senior partners, and entrepreneurs. Our focus is on enabling better strategic leadership while maintaining work-life balance in today’s complex, disruptive, and challenging business environment.
Strategy Psychology
Our strategy and evaluation work assists sectors, governments, companies, and nonprofits to ensure they are outcomes and evidence-based. Our performance management and evaluation expertise helps organizations identify outcomes, indicators, implement outcomes-based contracting and internal delegation, and evaluate impact to demonstrate they are making a real difference. Our groundbreaking visualization-based strategic planning approach – DoView Planning – is a major innovation in improving planning and implementation, and ideally suited to working in a hybrid human-AI world.
Societal Psychology
Our current media commentary focuses on psychological and social impacts, as well as strategic options, in what we see as two pivotal areas for the future. First the rapidly evolving AI revolution, and second climate change risk and social response. We give presentations and workshops on AI’s business, social, and psychological impacts. In addition, we write opinion pieces explaining concepts from our theoretical work in outcomes theory. Our principal, Dr Paul Duignan, also shares popular psychology tips on commercial radio. See his media page. his media page, AI impact workshops page and Substack.
Clinical /Leadership Psychology
We also work in clinical/leadership psychology. We help leaders face today’s rapidly changing world with more chill and less stress while still pursuing business ambitious goals. We have experience with large organizations and startups, and operate at the intersection of therapy and coaching. Our clinical psychology background allows us to go deeper than typical executive coaches when needed. CEOs, consultants, senior managers, entrepreneurs, and others find our sessions invaluable for navigating this extremely psychologically demanding era. Clinical psychology resources.
Background
Our principal Dr Paul Duignan (MSocSci(Hon), MA(Applied), PhD) has held a number of management, clinical, consulting, research and university roles. These include managing research units and national research strategies and as well as serving as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. He has consulted for organizations across nearly all public and nonprofit sectors and for international bodies such as the International Monetary Fund. Paul’s software startup developed award-winning software. He is also a registered clinical psychologist.