Zara Whysall is Head of Research at Kiddy, where she is responsible for conducting research to evaluate the impact of Kiddy’s client work, and for producing evidence-based insight papers to support clients with key challenges. She has a wealth of experience in conducting and applying research to help organisations enhance their performance.

Zara is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, with experience in consultancy, research, and training roles in private and public sector organisations.  Zara is also a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.  Her research spans a range of areas influencing performance and wellbeing at work, including presenteeism, talent management and development.

She has a PhD from Loughborough University, a Masters in Occupational Psychology from Nottingham University, and a BSc (First-class Hons) in Human Psychology from Aston University.