Leadership & Workplace Consulting in Charleston, SC

Integrating Psychological Science Into Business Strategy

We help leaders and teams improve communication, resolve workplace conflict, and navigate organizational change. Our consulting translates psychological research into practical strategies tailored to your organization.

At the Cognitive & Behavioral Health Center of Charleston, LLC, we leverage over sixty years of combined expertise in research methods, translational research, and psychology-informed interventions to bring evidence-based psychological insights directly to South Carolina business leaders. Our focus is on applying cutting-edge social science to enhance decision-making, improve team dynamics, and cultivate resilient workplace cultures that drive sustainable growth.

We specialize in the targeted application of research around cognitive biases, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal dynamics, translating these complex concepts into actionable strategies tailored to the unique needs of South Carolina industries. By addressing conflict resolution and interpersonal challenges head-on, we help organizations realize measurable improvements in performance, build trust among employees, and boost engagement levels.

Our approach balances rigorous scientific methods with practical implementation, ensuring that businesses can rely on proven psychological frameworks to foster healthier, more effective workplaces. Through this integration of research and practice, we aim to support South Carolina companies in sustaining competitive advantage while prioritizing effective leadership, employee well-being and organizational resilience.

Consulting Services

Our psychology-informed consulting services are tailored to executive teams, facility managers, organizational leaders and family businesses. Areas of focus include:

  • confidential, psychology-informed guidance to strengthen well-being, decision-making and communication at the top

  • practical tools and facilitated sessions to build trust, resolve conflict, address intergenerational differences, and improve collaboration

  • strategies to reduce resistance, ease transitions, and accelerate adoption during growth, M&A, or new initiatives

  • proven approaches to enhance psychological safety, reduce burnout, improve intergenerational communication, and promote high-reliability performance

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Research & Further Reading

Explore research and practical perspectives on leadership development, effective teamwork, psychological safety, and constructive workplace communication.

  1. Leadership development
    Leadership Training Design, Delivery, and Implementation: A Meta-Analysis — Lacerenza and colleagues, 2017.
    Examines 335 independent samples and identifies features associated with effective leadership training, including practice, feedback, and assessment of organizational needs. Doerr Institute

  2. Teamwork and performance
    The Effectiveness of Teamwork Training on Teamwork Behaviors and Team Performance — McEwan and colleagues, 2017.
    A systematic review of controlled interventions finding that structured teamwork training can improve how teams work together and how they perform. PLOS

  3. Psychological safety
    Psychological Safety Comes of Age: Observed Themes in an Established Literature — Amy Edmondson and Derrick Bransby, 2023.
    Reviews research connecting psychological safety with learning, workplace experiences, leadership, and performance. A useful foundation for discussing environments where employees can raise concerns and contribute ideas. Annual Reviews

  4. Workplace coaching
    Workplace Coaching: A Meta-Analysis and Recommendations for Advancing the Science of Coaching — Cannon-Bowers and colleagues, 2023.
    Finds positive average effects of workplace coaching while identifying gaps in understanding which approaches work best and under what conditions. Frontiers

  5. Managing workplace conflict
    The Paradox of Intragroup Conflict: A Meta-Analysis — de Wit, Greer, and Jehn, 2012.
    Examines 116 studies, distinguishing disagreements about the work from interpersonal conflict. The findings support a nuanced approach: not all disagreement has the same consequences for teams. Erasmus University Rotterdam

  6. Brené Brown on communication and difficult conversations
    Clear Is Kind. Unclear Is Unkind. — Brené Brown, 2018.
    An accessible article about honest feedback, clear expectations, and addressing difficult conversations rather than avoiding them. Adapted from Dare to Lead; this is practical reading rather than a controlled effectiveness study. Brené Brown