Dr. Laura Crawshaw

Dr. Laura Crawshaw

 

Laura Crawshaw, Ph.D., better known as The Boss Whisperer®,  founded the Executive Insight Development Group in 1994, followed by The Boss Whispering Institute in 2009.  Executive Insight specializes in coaching abrasive leaders at all levels, and has served an international clientele of corporations over the past eighteen years, including over 40 Fortune 500 companies.

The Boss Whispering Institute is dedicated to research and training in the field of coaching abrasive leaders. More specifically, the Institute’s mission is to reduce individual and organizational suffering caused by workplace bullying. Dr. Crawshaw trains coaches, consultants, and conflict specialists worldwide in the practice of Boss Whispering, and is the first to conduct research directly with abrasive leaders and their employers. Dr. Crawshaw’s  book, Taming the Abrasive Manager: How to End Unnecessary Roughness in the Workplace (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2007), presents her findings on why abrasive leaders resort to interpersonal aggression with coworkers, why they deny their destructive impact, and what individuals and employers can do to effectively get these bosses to back off and behave in a civilized manner.

Dr. Crawshaw holds degrees in clinical social work and organizational behavior and speaks internationally at workplace bullying, management, and coaching conferences. She is a member of the International Association on Workplace Bullying & Harassment, the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, the British