COMMUNITY PROFILE

Charles Sutton

Senior Partner

Organizational Edge

Charles has a varied and intriguing background. In addition to work episodes in the pharmaceutical industry, education, and the Church, he also studied at Bristol (Educational Psychology and Biological Science), Oxford (Theology) and London (Organizational Psychology). His early experience included quality control chemist, manager of a residential training centre (specialising in personal development), Officer for Social Responsibility in the Diocese of Carlisle and then Management College tutor. Charles started working as a consultant during the early eighties. Recently, following a Directorship at a leading business psychology consultancy for nine years, he founded the business psychology consultancy ‘Organizational Edge’. Charles is also a Teaching Fellow at London University (Birkbeck College), teaching post-graduate Organizational Psychology; he is currently researching the ‘meaning of work’ and the changing understanding of ‘real work’, and organizational identity. Charles is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a member of the British Psychological Society, the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, and the Institute of Personnel and Development. He has a number of published and delivered articles and conference papers.