About Dr Dyedra MorrisseyDr. Dyedra Morrissey empowers people and organisations to answer the most important questions: Why, How & When
She is a leadership development expert who has almost a decade of experience teaching, mentoring, coaching, and consulting clients from the public and private sector, including working extensively with executive leaders. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on applying insights from psychological research, behavioural economics, learning science and management theory to develop practical strategies that help people and organisations to sustain motivation and focus on their goals through the cultivation of passion and perseverance (grit) as well as becoming more organised, efficient, and productive. Her specific research interest lies in holistic Time Management, Combatting Procrastination and Goal Setting. |
Some highlights from 2023-2024 |
Coaching and Mentoring
For Executives and Leadership Teams
For Professionals
For Students
For Professionals
For Students
Leadership Development and Workshops
Holistic Time Management (for individuals and teams)
Goal Setting
Discovering your Own and Team Values
Combatting Procrastination
Successful Delegation
Project Management (for everyone)
Risk Management (for everyone)
Goal Setting
Discovering your Own and Team Values
Combatting Procrastination
Successful Delegation
Project Management (for everyone)
Risk Management (for everyone)
Consulting
Team productivity
Company-Wide Time Management
Project Forecasting & Time Risk Analysis
Programme and Project Lessons Learned
Company-Wide Time Management
Project Forecasting & Time Risk Analysis
Programme and Project Lessons Learned
More about dr Dyedra Morrissey
Dr Dyedra Morrissey has worked extensively with major programme managers and executive leaders from across the globe as well as teaching on different executive degrees at the Saïd Business School (University of Oxford) since 2016, including on the MBA, EMBA (executive MBA), MPLA (Major Projects Leadership Academy of the UK Gov), the MMPM (MSc in Major Programme management), and tailored Executive Education courses for commercial clients. As part of her engagement with SBS she has been a Masters Thesis supervisor since 2020 for the MMPM where she has supervised students researching a wide range of major programme management topics. She is also a Retained Lecturer at Pembroke College, University of Oxford, where she offers tailored support to all their undergraduate students. As a public speaker she often tours the UK to speak to audiences from high school students to business leaders, aiming to foster a positive work-mindset as well as a passion for life-long learning.
Dyedra also has extensive experience working herself in the public and private sector as a management consultant and programme manager gaining valuable first-hand insights into different organisations. These experiences enable her to empathise with the common issues leaders and organisations face and to draw on them in her research and teaching.
Dyedra completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford on the science and psychology of time management and forecasting, investigating the cognitive biases that make people miss deadlines and make projects overrun their initial time horizons, a phenomenon called “The Planning Fallacy”.
Some of her past public sector clients include the Met Police and the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
Her private sector clients have included a leading global design & consultancy organisation (with over 29,000 employees worldwide), an international management and technology consultancy (with over 5000 employees worldwide), the UK branch of an international facilities management company (with over 120,000 employees worldwide), and the UK branch of a manufacturing and retail business (15,000+ employees worldwide).
Her past clients in the education sector include the University of Bristol, Eton College, Oxford Scholastica Academy and OxNet (University of Oxford Access Programme, pro-bono work).
Dyedra also has extensive experience working herself in the public and private sector as a management consultant and programme manager gaining valuable first-hand insights into different organisations. These experiences enable her to empathise with the common issues leaders and organisations face and to draw on them in her research and teaching.
Dyedra completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford on the science and psychology of time management and forecasting, investigating the cognitive biases that make people miss deadlines and make projects overrun their initial time horizons, a phenomenon called “The Planning Fallacy”.
Some of her past public sector clients include the Met Police and the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
Her private sector clients have included a leading global design & consultancy organisation (with over 29,000 employees worldwide), an international management and technology consultancy (with over 5000 employees worldwide), the UK branch of an international facilities management company (with over 120,000 employees worldwide), and the UK branch of a manufacturing and retail business (15,000+ employees worldwide).
Her past clients in the education sector include the University of Bristol, Eton College, Oxford Scholastica Academy and OxNet (University of Oxford Access Programme, pro-bono work).
