“You think you are just being you!
Everyone else sees you in your role and is worrying about why you didn’t smile at them in the corridor…”

Dr. Candice Crawford-Zakian

Senior Leadership Faculty and Coach at KS Insight.
Psychoanalytically oriented consulting psychologist and executive coach.
Expertise in leadership development, social identity, and unconscious group dynamics.
Interdisciplinary practice grounded in psychology, design thinking, and the creative arts.
Leadership development coach at INSEAD graduate business school in France.
Consultant with Subculture, a firm specializing in design thinking and innovation.
Holds a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) in Clinical Psychology from The George Washington University.
Adjunct Lecturer on leadership at Harvard Graduate School of Education

Candice A. Crawford-Zakian, Psy.D. is a psychoanalytically oriented consulting psychologist and executive coach with expertise in the convergence of leadership development, social identity, and unconscious group dynamics.

Her practice is interdisciplinary and draws from principles of psychology, design thinking, and the creative arts. Candice brings a collaborative approach to her work by developing solutions with clients. She specializes in creating experiential learning programs that equip leaders with the cognitive agility, creativity, socio-cultural awareness, and self-awareness necessary to build and lead healthy, innovative, diverse organizations.