Protecting the well-being of NATO’s most powerful force: Its people

Ingrid is a Chartered Psychologist (Health and Care Professions Council registered), public speaker, researcher, Qualified Executive Coach, a member of the European Association for Aviation Psychology, the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), EAWOP and Project Security Assessment for Everyone (S.A.F.E.) She has over two decades of experience in industries and sectors from finance to international organizations (e.g., the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO). She received the Practitioner of the Year Award (2010) from the British Psychological Society’s (BPS) Division of Occupational Psychology (DOP). She served as the DOP Strategy Convenor and Conference Chair for a decade and was a Research Fellow at Birkbeck for two years. Ingrid is a reviewer for the BPS Professional Development Centre and is pursuing a PhD at KU Leuven University. Ingrid is a member of the EAWOP Congress Katowice 2023 Organising Committee and is responsible for the invited speaker programme. She will be involved in a symposium chaired by keynote Professor Martin Euwema on what Work and Organizational Psychology can learn from military psychology research and practice, and is involved in the networking, relationship building and practitioner aspects of the congress. Reflecting the context of this paper Ingrid has a chapter in a forthcoming international book to be published by Routledge - Taylor & Francis, on the topic of Elite High Performing Military Leaders & Resilience , edited by Professor Fotinatos-Ventouratos, Professor Sir. Cary L. Cooper and Professor Alexander, S. Antoniou.