Dawn Nicholson
Vice Chair, Head of Accreditation, Biz Psych Cup Lead
Dr Dawn H. Nicholson is the Vice Chair and Head of University Accreditation for the Association for Business Psychology (ABP). She is a Fellow of the ABP, a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol), and an Associate Fellow of the BPS.
Away from the ABP, Dawn is currently a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the MSc Business Psychology at Arden University.
Dawn worked for almost 28 years in internal Human Resources (HR) roles and as an advisor to HR, in professional and financial services in the City of London. She spent 3 years as a Partner in PwC’s HR Consulting business, working with clients on their people-related issues and on PwC’s client diversity offering.
Prior to PwC, Dawn was Managing Director, Deputy Head of Human Resources for Europe, The Middle East and Africa, for the global investment bank, Morgan Stanley, where she worked for 16 years. Dawn was responsible for areas including reward, benefits and well-being, diversity, employee engagement, learning and development and recruiting. During that time, she also worked closely with internal employee diversity networks.
Before joining Morgan Stanley, Dawn spent 9 years at Arthur Andersen advising clients on employee-related tax and HR issues.
Dawn retired from PwC in June 2013 and returned to academia to pursue her primary passion – understanding and improving group decision-making processes. She was awarded her PhD in group decision-making in the School of Psychology at The University of Kent in 2019, where she also remains an Honorary Academic. Her decision-making research has also been published in several academic journals: (https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOTB-05-2020-0063; https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12846; https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12444)
Dawn is the architect and creator of the ABP Biz Psych Cup. She is committed to growing the field of business psychology and next generation of business psychologists.
