Dr Jean Cooper

Dr Jean Cooper
TOPIC: Being a white African man: Reflections from a motorcycle journey through Africa
Jean is an Industrial and Organisational Psychologist registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA). He obtained his MCom I/O Psychology (cum laude), MPhil Applied Theology (cum laude) and PhD I/O Psychology from the University of Pretoria. Dissertation title: The forces involved in being a member of a small group. Jean works as Organisational Consultant and Executive Coach to various organisations (since 2005). He is the founder of The Institute for Leadership and Transformation (TILT) and has been a part-time faculty member at the University of Pretoria (since 2006) and The Chicago School for Professional Psychology (2012-2018). He is an Associate Editor for the UK-based journal ‘Organisational and Social Dynamics’ as well as a member of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology of South Africa (SIOPSA). Jean presented Tavistock Group Relations training conferences to postgraduate students at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), Columbia University (New York, NY) and The Utrecht Business School (Utrecht, NL), amongst others. He also directed two Group Relations Conferences in partnership with the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and GIBS (2016 and 2017). Jean travelled 18200km along the West Coast of Africa, from Pretoria to Madrid, on a motorcycle in 2023. He is currently writing a book on his experiences.