Jana Dawson

Jana Dawson is the Deputy CEO of The School of Positive Psychology, where she leads strategic initiatives across education, leadership development, and organisational capability. With expertise in positive organisational psychology, coaching, organisational communication, and human development, she designs evidence-based programmes that help individuals, teams, and organisations thrive in an increasingly complex world.

A passionate advocate of strengths-based development, Jana brings a systems perspective to her work, helping leaders understand how culture, relationships, and organisational environments shape human behaviour and performance. She designs and delivers leadership development, wellbeing, and organisational effectiveness programmes across the financial services, technology, healthcare, research, education, and public sectors.

She is driven by a simple belief: when people flourish, organisations and communities flourish with them.