Dr. Melrona Kirrane

Dr Kirrane is an Organisational Psychologist and gained her degrees in Psychology, Organisational Psychology and
Psychoanalysis from the National University of Ireland and The Queen’s University of Belfast. She is a Registered and Chartered
Organisational Psychologist and is Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She is also a member of PSI, EAWOP
and SIOP. She lectures predominantly in the areas of Organisational Psychology, including Selection and Assessment, Leadership
& Decision-Making, Employee Well-Being and Change Management, mainly at postgraduate level.
Her research interests include leadership, the role of personality at work and unconscious drivers of dysfunctional behaviour. She
has delivered papers at national and international conferences including the Academy of Management, Society of Industrial &
Organisational Psychology, European Association of Work & Organisational Psychology and the British Academy of Management.
Her work has also been published in peer-reviewed national and international journals in these fields including The Journal of
Managerial Psychology, Jouirnal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology, HRD Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics and
Journal of Music Education Research and Equal Opportunities International.
Melrona is Professor of Leadership at PNU, Riyadh and was visiting Professor of Strategy & Change at Danube University, Vienna
2004 - 2010.
Melrona consults to a range of organisations across the financial, legal and IT sectors and has worked with many government
departments including the Dept of Finance, Justice, Equality & Law Reform and the Dept of Agriculture. Projects she has led
include team-building, cultural change and leadership development. She has also been involved in the selection and assessment
of senior personnel in the financial services sector for many years. Companies she has worked with include Vodafone, Intel, CIE,
Irish Rail, Dublin Fire Brigade, Dublin Bus, Aegon International, NTMA, Hudson International and the 30% Club.
Melrona is a highly sought-after speaker at industry conferences and has been keynote speaker at the Small Firms Association,
IBEC, Zurich, Ericsson, Eir, Women in Business Network and the Retail Federation of Ireland. Her work is regularly cited in The
Irish Times and The Sunday Business Post and she is frequently a guest on RTE ‘The Business’ programme as well as featuring
on CKR FM and Shannonside radio.