Kate Keenan

Kate Keenan is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with degrees in affiliated subjects (B.Sc., M.Phil.) and a number of qualifications in others.

She founded Keenan Research, an industrial psychology consultancy, in 1978. The work of the consultancy is fundamentally concerned with helping people to achieve their potential and make a better job of their management.

By devising work programmes for companies she enables them to target and remedy their managerial problems - from personnel selection and individual assessment to team building and attitude surveys. She believes in giving priority to training the managers to institute their own programmes, so that their company resources are developed and expanded.

Being an expert in analysing the causes of stress means that she is rather better at helping others to reduce their stress than getting to grips with her own. However, writing this book has provoked a long overdue impetus to practice what she preaches - beginning with relaxing her shoulders and taking four deep breaths.