Mary Sharpe

Mary Sharpe is the founder of “Sharpe Thinking”. She draws on over 25 years’ experience in professional life as an Advocate and solicitor in Scotland, an international civil servant  at the EC Commission in Brussels (including as speech writer to the former Prime Miniser of France, Edith Cresson and legal adviser to three other Commissioners); and as a consultant to the Science for Peace and Security Programme of NATO. She runs workshops on personal and professional development.

Mary has spoken recently on Internet addictions for the BBC, in national newspapers and magazines, in the City of London, at international conferences and has written a chapter called “Sex, Drugs and Education” in a recently published book for NATO called “Global Security, a Vision for the Future. Addressing the Challenges and Opportunities for Research in the Information Age” (2011) published by IOS press NL. http://www.iospress.nl/book/global-security-a-vision-for-the-future/

After post graduate work at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge in 2001, Mary trained in applied psychology and basic neuroscience. For the past 10 years she has run her own consultancy business specialising in personal leadership development and conflict management. She designs and runs workshops for, among others, PhD students and staff at the University of Cambridge. She also designs and runs international workshops looking at new approaches to conflict management for the NATO Science for Peace and Security programme.* Mary was awarded a scholarship by the Centre for Women and Leadership at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge and was an adviser on counter terrorism to the Psychology and Religion Research Group within the Faculty of Divinity.

Mary is now based again in Edinburgh.

*She has published 3 books as editor through IOS Press, NL:

• “Science and Society in the face of the New Security Threats” (2006)
• “Suicide Bombers- the Psychological, Religious and other Imperatives” (2008) and
• “Global Security, a Vision for the Future. Addressing the Challenges and Opportunities for Research in the Information Age (2011)”.

Associates

Mary works in collaboration with a number of other professionals, including psychologists, psychiatrists, HR professionals, various academics and civil servants to keep the workshops current and based upon good practice.

Affiliations

Mary Sharpe is a:

• Member of the Faculty of Advocates (Scottish legal Bar)-non practising
• Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce)
• Member of the Cambridge Neuroscience Network
• Member of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce