Dr Sunita Sah In Conversation with Hannah MacInnes
60 mins watch time
Posted February 2025
Wellbeing
Why do we often say yes when we shouldn’t, and how can we say no when it matters most? Dr Sunita Sah is here to help.
Dr Sunita Sah
Dr Sunita Sah is an award-winning professor at Cornell University and an expert in organisational psychology. She leads groundbreaking research on influence, authority, compliance, and defiance. Born and raised in Bradford, she worked as a junior doctor in the NHS and later a management consultant for the pharmaceutical industry. She currently teaches executives, leaders, and students in healthcare and business. Dr Sah is a sought-after international speaker and consultant, advisor to government agencies, and former Commissioner of the National Commission on Forensic Science. Her multidisciplinary research and analyses have been widely published in leading academic journals and media outlets including Financial Times, The Telegraph, BBC News, Metro, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Harvard Business Review, and Scientific American. She lives with her husband and son in New York.
Hannah MacInnes
Hannah MacInnes is a broadcaster and journalist. Alongside hosting How To Academy’s live programmes and podcast, she presents a cultural show on Times Radio and interviews on-stage at a number of other major literary events. She is the host of The Klosters Forum Podcast series and has written for the Radio Times, the Evening Standard and TLS. Before going freelance she worked for 8 years at BBC Newsnight, as Planning Editor and as a Producer / Filmmaker.
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