Dr Irina Anderson
Founder and Executive Coach

Irina Anderson is a psychologist, academic and coach. She holds a PhD in Psychology and a Level 5 Award in Management Coaching and Mentoring from the Chartered Management Institute.

She has been a university lecturer to undergraduate and postgraduate students for over 30 years. Her research interests lie in decision-making, financial identity and gender, stress at work and leadership. All performance improvement programmes at Trader Cognition Consulting are developed using a combination of her first-hand knowledge of primary research and best practice in teaching academic content. Recent publications in high-impact peer-reviewed academic journals include:

Good Thinking or Gut Feeling? Cognitive Reflection and Intuition in Traders, Bankers and Financial Non-Experts

The Edge of Reason: A Thematic Analysis of How Professional Financial Traders Understand Analytical Decision Making

Improving Financial Decisions

Talks and outreach include:

Royal Bank of Canada – ‘The Psychology of Women in Financial Services‘

Her work has been cited in ‘Alpha Trader:The Mindset, Methodology and Mathematics of Professional Trading (2021) by Brent Donnelly