Mary Sharpe, founder

Mary SharpeMary Sharpe is the founder of “Sharpe Thinking”. She researches positive psychology and neuroscience and their application to professional and personal development. She contributes to new thinking on international conflict management and is a consultant and published author to NATO and the European Science Foundation. During 2006-7 she was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Women and Leadership at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.

For the past eight years Mary has been a consultant and facilitator in both the public and private sectors. Her clients include: Cambridge University (the Cambridge – MIT Institute, the Centre for Personal and Professional Development, the Department for Equality and Diversity, and the Judge Business School), NATO, and several law firms and high tech companies in Cambridge, London, and Oxford. She is also a tutor at the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge.

She practiced law for fifteen years in Scotland and in Brussels at the EC Commission where she developed her knowledge and experience of cross-cultural legal, political and business practice. In Brussels, she also trained as a jounalist in a specialist communications unit with senior operators from the BBC and the Financial Times for the then EC Commissioner for Science and Education, Edith Cresson, former Prime Minister of France. She was a speech-writer for several EC Commissioners and spoke on behalf of the EC Commission at conferences and seminars worldwide. Her interests in inter-departmental cooperation, self efficacy, leadership development, and conflict management were enhanced during this time.

Associates

Mary works in collaboration with a number of other professionals, including a Cambridge-based psychologist and a London-based consultant psychiatrist, to keep the workshops current and based upon good practice.

Affiliations

Mary Sharpe is:

  • a Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce)
  • a member of the British Neuroscience Association
  • a member of the Faculty of Advocates (Scottish legal Bar)