Lea Brindle is a Consulting Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Counsellor who has worked with leading consultancy firms before setting up in private practice in 1989. In addition to delivering a range of consultancy assignments, Lea has assessed, counselled & coached over 3000 individuals during this period. He is committed to the personal and career growth of his clients, and to the success of the organisations with whom they work. Lea has conducted several Assessment & Development projects, has carried out a range of validation & performance management exercises and conducted organisational health "climate surveys" for leading organisations. He has worked across many business sectors and has appeared in the press and on radio & TV discussing a range of everyday psychology topics and has published articles based on his observations of best practice. Recently Dr Lea has assessed several hundred contributors for "reality TV" programmes to assess their general suitability and mental stability to appear on TV. He has NOT been connected with Big Brother!
Dr Brindle has extensive experience of using a wide range of psychometric instruments, including Personality Questionnaires: OPQ Series; 16PF and 16PF(5); MBTI; Minnesota California Psychological Inventory; Multiphasic Personality Indicator (MMPI); Firo-B/Elements of Awareness; Gordon's Personal Profile & Inventory; Gordon's Personal and Interpersonal Values; Guildford Zimmerman Temperament Survey; Hogan Personality Series. Ability Tests: GMA Series; SHL MGIB, ATB, etc.; AH4/5/6; Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal; Guildford's Creativity Measure; Clerical Speed & Accuracy Test Battery; Applied Technology Series; ABLE (OPP) and several Interest & Motivation Inventories: Morrisbey; SHL Advanced Interest Inventory (AOII); SHL Management Interest Inventory (MII); Holland's Measures; Kuder Preference Record; Schein's Career Anchors; Strong Interest Inventory; Motivational Profiler.
Prior to his training as a business psychologist, Lea held technical and managerial posts in the computer and electronics industry. He has also worked as a consultant for Coopers & Lybrand Associates and with a leading firm of business psychologists, as a psychologist for the government (Manpower Services Commission), with OPCS (HM Government Census Office) and as a lecturer at Cranfield University. At the turn of the Millennium, Dr Brindle has held the posts of Course Director and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Bristol for the MSc in Organisational Psychology for three academic years.
Professional: Dr Brindle holds degrees from London Guildhall University (1979), University of Aston (1980) and Cranfield University (1984). He has also received specialised Masters' level counselling training from Roehampton Institute and other leading organisations. An Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, he currently serves as an Examiner for the Division of Occupational Psychology and is also a founder member of the Association of Business Psychologists.
Clients include: Banking (Alliance & Leicester, Bank of America; Chemical Bank; Forward Trust Group; Swiss Bank Corporation) Media (Channel 4, BBC3, Diverse Productions, Endemol, UK; Maverick TV, IWC Media, World of Wonder, Brighter Pictures & Endemol UK Ltd.) Marketing, Distribution, Manufacturing & Retail Fuji Photo Film (UK) Ltd.; Pitcher & Piano; Mars Confectionery; Reckitt & Colman Products; Texas Homecare), Public Sector: Home Office & BBC) Consultancy TMP Worldwide, Corporate Psychologists International, IQuentis, CEPEC, Coutts, GHN and Fairplace consulting.
Key Services include: Bespoke Occupational Assessment (assessing competencies, organisational culture, etc. and using a range of psychometric tests together with behavioural, psychodynamic and motivational interviewing). Managerial & Professional Career Development; Assessment & Development Centres and Validation projects. Equal Opportunities, Organisational Health & Climate surveys.
Qualifications:
1975 BSc (Hons) Psychology: London Guildhall University
1979 MSc Applied Psychology: Aston University in Birmingham
1984 PhD Applied Psychology and Technology Assessment: Cranfield University
1995 Post Graduate Diploma in Psychological Counselling: Roehampton Institute
Recent Publications:
Brindle, L. R. (2007) Yoga-related values ~ on and off the mat. Journal of Sports Psychology, In press
Brindle, L. R. & Whapham, J. (2004) What do You Enjoy? - Validating a Career Counselling Inventory Interpreting Schein's "Career
Anchors" questionnaire. Selection & Development Review, Volume 20, 1
Brindle, L. R. & Whapham, J. (2003) To weight or not to weight? Interpreting Schein's "Career Anchors" questionnaire. Selection &
Development Review, Volume 19, 3
Brindle, L. R. & Whapham, J. (2003) How bona fide is Schein's "Career Anchors" questionnaire? A partial validation of this popular career counselling tool. Selection & Development Review, Volume 19, 1
Brindle, L. R. (1999) Age & Executive Personality Shift Revisited. Selection & Development Review, Volume 14, 6
Brindle, L. R. (1999) Yoga for Change & Development
Brindle, L. R. (1998) Added Value Psychometric Test Administration. Assessment Matters, 7, Spring 1998
Brindle, L. R. (1997) Harsh or Easy: The GMA-Abstract in Practice. Selection and Development Review, Volume 13 Number 3, June
Brindle, L. R. and Ridgeway, C. C. (1995) UK Occupational Survey - Experts' View on Current and Future Perspectives. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Volume 3 Number 2, April
Brindle, L. R. (1994) Chapters 9 & 13 in Empowering Change by Christopher Ridgeway and Brian Wallace, IPD
Brindle, L. R. (1992) Age and Executive Personality Shift. Selection and Development Review, Volume 8 Number 3, June
Brindle, L. R. (1992) The Redundant Executive - Talented or Typical? Selection and Development Review, Volume 8 Number 6, December
Brindle, L. R. (1992) Winners and Losers in the Career Stakes. Human Resources, Spring Edition
Brindle, L. R. (1992) Handing Out the Oscars - A New Look at Team Building. Human Resources, Summer Edition
Brindle, L. R. (1992) How Executives Get Better Jobs (More Quickly) Journal of Managerial Psychology, Volume 7, Number 3
Brindle, L. R. (1991) When the Going Gets Tough, Do the Tough Get Going? Paper presented to the Occupational Psychology Conference, British Psychological Society
