Suchitra Sakpal

Suchitra Sakpal is an Assistant Professor at Shoolini Business School. She is a Researcher, Clinical Psychologist, author, and corporate wellness consultant whose work lies at the intersection of clinical psychology, organisational behaviour, leadership psychology, and consciousness studies. She holds an MBA in Finance and an MBA in Insurance, along with a master’s degree in clinical psychology, from Mumbai University. 

Alongside her clinical practice, she collaborates with organisations to design, strengthen, and redesign Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) with a focus on preventive mental health, trauma-informed frameworks, leadership mental health, and culturally responsive models that enhance psychological safety, leadership engagement, and organisational resilience. Her work in this area integrates clinical psychology with organisational systems, leadership development, and workplace mental health strategy. 

Asst Prof Sakpal specialises in executive mental health, supporting senior leaders, high-performance professionals, and decision-makers in navigating chronic stress, burnout, emotional regulation, leadership pressure, and the psychological demands of complex organizational environments. Her work focuses particularly on high-functioning individuals who perform at high levels externally while managing internal psychological strain, role pressure, identity conflict, and emotional fatigue.

She is a corporate mental health and performance improvement consultant with MNC’s such as Morningstar India, and Edstellar and iDream where she worked on behavioural change, career decision-making, performance psychology, and youth and professional development.

With over two decades of leadership experience across corporate finance, insurance, behavioural consulting, and organisational development, she brings a rare interdisciplinary practitioner–researcher perspective to psychology. She has held senior leadership roles including Principal Officer at APARYS Insurance Broking LLP, Vice President at KRChoksey Group, Executive Director at Havmore Insurance Brokers, and Senior Underwriter at Bajaj Allianz.

Her research and academic work focus on neurodiversity, emotional regulation, psychological safety, relational psychology, financial crime psychology, spiritual psychology, and the psychology of high-functioning individuals. She has authored and co-authored academic case studies published through The Case Centre, Cranfield University, including Fitting in or Burning Out? 

A Neurodiverse Professional in a Neurotypical World and Silent Fallout – The Cost of a Slack Promotion, which examine neurodiversity, workplace invisibility, emotional disengagement, leadership blind spots, and psychological safety in organisations.

A significant part of her academic contribution includes the development of conceptual psychological frameworks. She has coined the psychological construct ‘Intentional Blindness,’. This is a cognitive–emotional construct explaining why individuals knowingly ignore psychological, relational, ethical, or organisational realities. 

She has also developed conceptual models such as the Quadrangle of Fraud Model, EPISTRUCT Cognitive Relational Field, and Return Track Module, which focus on behavioral patterns, decision-making, and psychological intervention in organisational and relational systems.

She is trained in multiple therapeutic modalities including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), Hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and coaching-based interventions, and her work focuses on translating psychological insight into practical interventions for individuals, leaders, and organizations. 

She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), and is associated with special schools for autism. 

Her central research and practice focus is the psychology of high-functioning individuals in high-pressure environments, including corporate leaders, professionals, and individuals navigating complex relational and organisational systems. She has a particular interest in neurodiversity, intentional blindness, emotional regulation, and meaning-making.