Dr. Laura Crawshaw received her master’s degree in clinical social work from the Smith College School for Social Work and conducted postgraduate studies at the Seattle Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Harvard Community Health Plan.

She completed both MA and Ph.D. degrees in human and organizational systems at Fielding Graduate University, founded the Executive Insight Development Group in 1994, and The Boss Whispering Institute in 2008.

With over thirty years’ experience as a psychotherapist, corporate officer, and executive coach, Dr. Crawshaw is known as The Boss Whisperer®, focusing her research and practice on the reduction of workplace suffering caused by abrasive bosses. Executive Insight’s Boss Whispering Institute is dedicated to research and training in the field of coaching abrasive executives and professionals. Dr. Crawshaw is a member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, the American Psychological Association, the British Psychological Society, the International Association on Bullying and Harassment at Work, the Society for Human Resource Management, and the International Coach Federation.