Diversity, assessment, development and well-being specialist Professor Binna Kandola is a Business Psychologist, Senior Partner and co-founder of Pearn Kandola. He is particularly interested in understanding bias and finding ways to reduce it - the topic of his latest, critically acclaimed book 'The Value of Difference: Eliminating bias in organisations'. In the last twenty five years, he has worked on a wide variety of projects for public and private sector clients both in the UK and overseas. As well as leading the practice, Binna is the co-author of several books, one of which, 'Managing the Mosaic' won a Special Commendation at the 1994 Management Book of the Year Awards. He is also a regular contributor to the HR and business press and a highly regarded conference speaker.
Binna was the first Chair of the Standing Committee for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a member of Sir Robin Butler's Panel of Enquiry into Equal Opportunities in the Senior Civil Service. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the BPS, and in 2002 was elected as Chair of the Division of Occupational Psychology. In January 2004, Binna was invited to join the UK Government's National Employment Panel and appointed Chair of the Minority Ethnic Group. He was visiting Professor at the Institute of Work Psychology at Sheffield University and is currently a visiting Professor at Leeds University Business School. Binna is a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute at the National School of Government and a Fellow of the RSA. He is a consulting editor for the Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology and an editorial board member of Development & Learning in Organisations. Binna contributes regularly to the media writing a regular column for Asian Enterprise magazine as well as blogging for Management Today. He is the resident psychologist for Malcolm Boyden's breakfast show on BBC Radio Oxford.
The Independent on Sunday recognised him in 2004 as one of the UK's Top Ten Business psychologists.
Professor Binna Kandola was awarded an OBE in 2008 for his services to Disadvantaged People and Diversity.
