Coercive Controllers | Narcissists | Corporate Psychopaths | Toxic Leaders | Bullies
Human predators
World Leaders In Aversive Personalities
We offer advice, education, coaching, counselling, strategy, training, guest speaking regarding people who actively violate social norms and harm and disadvantage others by conscious choice.
We are the only consultancy in the world combining cutting edge knowledge of aversive personalities with:
Extensive experience in the development and delivery of training and coaching programs that offer guaranteed increase in insight and capability.
Extensive experience at C Suite level.
Deep insight and experience with a broad range of human behaviours.
Compassion and sensitivity.
Deep capability in organisational culture change.
Our focus areas
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Coercive control
There is a rapidly growing need for professionals in the justice system - including law enforcement, attorneys/lawyers, mental health professionals and social workers - to understand and address coercive control.
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Understanding the narcissist
The word ‘narcissist’ is overused. It is also incorrectly used. The danger of a narcissist is often downplayed. Are narcissists people who demand a lot of attention, as is commonly thought? Absolutely not.
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Highly toxic people, bullies and corporate psychopaths
Increasingly we are witnessing the rise of dark personalities, including highly toxic people, bullies and psychopaths, who share behaviours including: self-interest at the expense of others, a willingness to lie and manipulate, a focus on exploitation and a façade which makes them seem normal, even compelling.
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Human predators
Human predators feed off others. They exploit, they use, they diminish, they humiliate, they control, they compromise.
Human predators may seem perfectly normal to those who are not being targetted, but to their victims, human predators assert a level of harm which is unimaginable.
Our services.
Creating thriving cultures.
Addressing blockers to thriving cultures.
Culture change and reinvigoration.
“Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.”
Brian Chesky
CEO Airbnb.
“Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.”
Richard Branson
Entrepreneur.
Inclusiveness, women, and leadership.
“Karen and the others that work with her at Kalmor have a highly sophisticated understanding and deep level of experience in the barriers to women’s corporate and career success and how these can be addressed.
More importantly, Karen and her colleagues have excellent change management, facilitation, and coaching skills so their ability to impact attitudes and ultimately behaviours of people in organisations is exceptional. Their level of professionalism and sensitivity in working with others, including very senior people, in this somewhat political area, is outstanding.
They also have a keen awareness of the need to link diversity-related issues to commercial outcomes. I would have no hesitation in recommending Kalmor to any organisation.”
Group Managing Director
Human Capital, Telecommunications.
Narcissists, psychopaths, and destabilisers.
“12% of corporate senior leadership displays a range of psychopathic traits, which means psychopathy is up to 12 times more common among senior management than among the general population.”
“When some of the defining traits of psychopathy include egocentricity, predatoriness, recklessness, a lack of empathy, and a propensity for manipulation and exploitation, it doesn’t take a great leap of the imagination to see how a high percentage of unrecognized psychopathy in senior management could lead to all kinds of problems for organisations, their employees, their customers, and society at large - including billions of dollars of losses annually and reduced shareholder wealth.”
Distinguished Professor Simon Croom
University of San Diego.
“More often than not, they are NOT murderers or rapists, burglars, or leaders of cults. They are people quietly endangering people in many different, constant, and not easily transparent ways.”
M Scott Peck
People of the Lie.
Bullying, toxic, predatory, and coercively controlling behaviours.
In a study of several thousand managers and employees exposed to toxic behaviours:
78% said their commitment to the organisation declined.
48% decreased their work effort,
66% said their performance declined.
How Toxic Colleagues Erode Performance.
Porath and Pearson.
“I have encountered people who I believe went to the effort of gaining professional credentials to gain status and power which would enable them to abuse children without being subject to questioning by people who put their trust in them and held them in high esteem. For example, priests and teachers. I have witnessed these many times”
Investigator, child sex abuse in the Catholic Church
Karen Mitchell’s PhD.
Clients past and present.
A sample of participants in Dr Mitchell’s PhD research which informs our approach.
Dr Emma Katz
World leading expert in coercive control.
Professor W. Keith Campbell
World leading expert in narcissism.
Professor Tamas Bereczkei
World leading expert in Machiavellianism.
Professor Cynthia Mathieu
World leading expert in psychopaths, Machiavellians, and narcissists in workplaces.
Dr Nathan Brooks
World leading expert in high functioning psychopaths.
Mr Simon Davies
Director of Culture, Risk & Professional Standards for the Jesuits, an international Catholic religious order of male priests and brothers.
Mr Mark MacKizer
27 years as an FBI agent; lead investigator working internationally and domestically on crimes of abduction, homicide, sexual exploitation; expert in both overt and covert forms of harm-related behaviour, including behavioural analysis relating to risk, personality, and threat.
Mr Charlie Bezina
High profile criminal apprehension specialist and lead investigator into deaths in police custody, fatal encounters by police and public, suspicious circumstances of missing persons, armed robbery.
Comments on Dr Mitchell’s work
“I see Dr Mitchell’s work as a continuation of Dr M Scott Peck’s.”
“Dr Mitchell’s work is saving my very soul. To be able to identify and recognise the predators in our midst is helping me of finally understand the hell I’ve gone through and how to make sure that I am NEFER EVER unwittingly preyed upon again.”
“This researcher illuminates lived experiences many of us can’t verbalise well yet.”
“Probably one of the most on point analysis of the narcissist I’ve ever seen.”
“I wish I was reading all of your work 20 years ago. I had to scrounge for bits of information to make sense of my life and even then I couldn’t convince anyone of what I was going seeing. You have given me validation.”
“Dr Karen Mitchell’s PhD work is groundbreaking. We need urgent societal change in the understanding of how predators work.”