Dr Mike Drayton is an internationally recognised leadership coach, organisational consultant, and clinical psychologist. He is the author of four commercially published books on the psychology of leadership and organisations.

Mike is an executive coach accredited at the Senior Practitioner level by the EMCC and has thousands of hours of experience coaching C-suite executives around the world on effective organisational leadership. He also coaches and teaches on many programmes at Said Business School, University of Oxford, including the MBA/EMBA, Oxford High-Performance Leadership Programme and the Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Programme (rated the top executive education programme in the UK by the Financial Times). He also contributes to many bespoke corporate leadership development programmes.

Mike holds a degree in Social Psychology from the LSE and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Birmingham. He applies insights from psychology and the behavioural sciences to improve leadership capabilities.

Mike is also an accredited mediator and a graduate of the Oxford Negotiation Programme. He has worked with organisations on leadership strategy and development all over the world, including Amsterdam, Madrid, Moscow, Frankfurt and Zurich.

Published Books:

• Leading Hybrid Organisations: How to Build Trust, Collaboration and a High-Performance Culture (2024)
• Burning Bright Without Burning Out: The Anti-Burnout Workbook for Busy Professionals (2023)
• The Saboteur at Work: How the Unconscious Mind Can Sabotage Ourselves, Our Organisations and Society (2022)
• Anti‌Burnout:‌ How‌ to‌ Create‌ a‌ Psychologically‌ Healthy‌ and High‌ Performance‌ Organisation_(2021)
• Ignite! The Emotional Life of Organisations (in press)