Biography
Leisha Redmond McGrath is a PhD researcher at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, investigating how leaders manage the scaling of sustainably oriented firms and whether mission integrity can be maintained. She has a particular interest in the tensions leaders navigate between social purpose and commercial expansion.
Leisha holds an MSc in Occupational Psychology from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she developed a model examining the symbiotic relationship between frontline workers' capacity for care and unmet political commitments. She also holds a BA (International) in Psychology from University College Dublin and Université Lille III, where her undergraduate research explored psychological continuity between home and childcare environments.
Leisha brings more than 25 years in professional practice as a work and coaching psychologist. Her work has focused on leadership development, leader and organisational wellbeing, strategy development and implementation, change management, and psychometric assessment across public, private, and not-for-profit sectors.
Leisha is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Chartered Coaching Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS), a Chartered Work and Organisational Psychologist with the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI). She is an Associate Fellow of both BPS and PSI. She is a professional level Executive Coach, and Fellow of the Association for Coaching (AC). She has held leadership roles within the profession, including serving as Secretary and Co-Chair of the Division of Work and Organisational Psychology of the PSI. She was also a founding member of the Division of Occupational Psychology for Northern Ireland, for the BPS.
Internationally, she is active within the American Psychological Association (APA) Global Psychology Alliance (GPA), where she has co-hosted global summits supporting action towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. She also co-hosts the GPA podcast.
Leisha is a regular contributor to television, radio, print, and podcast media.
Research Expertise
Leisha’s research examines how leaders scale sustainably oriented firms while maintaining mission integrity. Her research sits at the intersection of leadership, psychology, scaling and sustainability scholarship.