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Almanac of the Fourth Scientific and Practical Conference "Business Psychology: Theory and Practice" November 16-19, 2017

Conferences on Business Psychology are regularly held at the Higher School of Economics. The format of the conference allows to unite researchers and practitioners working in the field of business psychology in one place. Therefore, psychologists, managers, entrepreneurs, students, teachers took part in the conference. Every year the conference becomes more attractive for representatives of business and consulting.Specificity of this year's conference was the appeal to fundamental psychological phenomena (abilities, activities, cognitive sphere, etc.), scientific research that contributes to the development of business-psychological theory and practice in modern socio-economic conditions. In addition, the specifics of business psychology, the role of business psychological practice in improving business efficiency, and the development of society as a whole were more clearly defined.In the mainstream of the international relations of the master's programme "Psychology in Business", the conference was attended by consultants and psychologists from Great Britain, Iran, Canada, France, Ukraine. Among the speakers were researchers from many cities of our country: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Samara, Krasnoyarsk, Kostroma, and others.The results of the conference allow us to say that a unique style of business psychology is being formed in the HSE, which is increasingly becoming attractive to researchers and practitioners. Its meaning is determined by the general orientation to make business more efficient and at the same time more "humane", contributing to the subjective well-being of people, their personal and professional development. As participants noted: "Business psychology benefits practitioners and society, it will be in demand more and more in the future."The program of the conference included a scientific part - reports on modern research and approaches in business psychology, and a practical part - workshops, on which technologies for working with a person and an organization in business were presented.

Scientific part of conference program
Takhir Bazarov, President of the Business Psychologists Association Russia, Doctor of Psychology, professor of Moscow State University, Director of Practical Psychology Institute of Higher School of Economics ( Moscow). Presentation “Addressing the challenges caused by permanent crisis by means of business psychology”
Vladimir Shadrikov, Doctor of Psychology, professor, academician at the Russian Academy of Education, academic supervisor of the Department of Psychology of Higher School of Economics. Presentation “Contemporary understanding of abilities and giftedness in psychology”
Timophey Nestik, executive director of the Business Psychologists Association of Russia, Doctor of Psychology, head of social and economic psychology research at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( Moscow). Presentation “Social and psychological factors determining the attitude towards technological innovations and new challenges for business” 
Olga Deineka, Doctor of Psychology, professor, acting head of the department of Political Psychology. Presentation “Psychological factors underlying the economic and managerial solutions in the process of modernization” 
Vasiliy Klyucharev, PhD in Biological Sciences, professor, leading expert of the Neural Economics Center and cognitive studies. Presentation “Neural Prediction as a way of providing effective business solutions”. 
Mikhail Ivanov, PhD in Psychological Sciences, internationally certified management consultant, senior scholar at the department of Psychology at Moscow State University, member of the honorary presidium of the Certified Management Consulting ( CMC) Institute Russia, academic fellow of ICMCI and vice president of the CMC Institute Russia. Presentation “Management Consulting : modern methods and ways”.
Stephen Armstrong, Professor of Innovation at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, visiting professor in the business psychology center at the University of Westminster. Presentation “Content Knowledge Versus Process Knowledge in Managing Change”.
As a management consultant who worked in the largest consulting companies in the world, such KPMG, he showed on the example of his own career from an engineer to a management consultant how the personality of a consultant is formed. He described how gradually, as far as personal and professional development was concerned, he set new goals and objectives, incorporated new methods into practice, and how his own consulting approach was formed. This example is very close to the professional development of a business psychologist, as an integrated specialist, who is able to quickly adapt to the demands of the market and, increasing his professional level,  helps to lead organizations to higher performance indicators.
Elena de Preville, PhD. Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne, research fellow at the department of organizational change of the ESSEC School of Business ( France), associate fellow at the Institute of Psychology at the Russian Academy of Sciences ( Moscow). Presentation “Managerial Innovations”. 
Peter Vlasov, PhD in Psychology, head of research and publishing at the Institute of Applied Psychology “Humanitarian Center”, member of IAAP, EAWOP. Anna Kiseleva, PhD in Philology, deputy director of the Institute of Applied Psychology “Humanitarian Center”, (Kharkov). Presentation “Reconstruction of an entrepreneur’s image : discourse and values” .
Fatemeh Bagherian, Shahid Beheshti University, Teheran, Head of the social and psychological research center of the Psychology Department. Presentation “Recent social and psychological studies in Iran: New trends focused on business” 

Practical part of the conference program: Workshops.
Christopher Benton, business psychologist, business and organizational consultant, Business Psychology Centre, Westminster University,  London. 
Workshop  – Lumina Spark- A tool for Enhanced Business Psychology practice
Timofey Nestik, Executive director of the Association of Business Psychologists, Russia, Doctor of Psychology, head of social and economic research lab at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Workshop  – Developing the scenarios of strategic sessions
Elena de Preville, PhD. Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne, research fellow at the department of organizational change of the ESSEC School of Business ( France), associate fellow at the Institute of Psychology at the Russian Academy of Sciences ( Moscow)
Workshop  – The use of the collective intelligence to enhance effectiveness: from theory to practice
Anna Kiseleva, PhD in Philology, deputy director of the Institute of Applied Psychology “Humanitarian Center”, (Kharkov)
Workshop  – Managing values
Elena Dubeninkova, PhD in psychology, assistant professor at Yaroslavl University
Alexander Eliseenko, Business psychologist, lecturer of “Psychology in Business” Master’s programme at National Research University of Higher School of Economics
Workshop  – Business psychologists in the dimensions of value and semantics 
Svetlana Chumakova, Russia’s first Master Certified Coach, ICF, Director general of International Coaching Academy, Executive Coach, founder and the first president of the ICF representation in Russia
Workshop  – Team coaching in an organization. The team power
Vitaly Treryakov, PhD in Psychology, professor of the Department of Ergonomics and Engineering Psychology of the Faculty of Psychology of St. Petersburg State University, IAEA expert.
Workshop - Generative games in organizations
Vengrzhnovskaya Talina, PhD in technical sciences, founder and director of the Institute of Creative Thinking, business psychologist, PCC ICF
Workshop - Theory and practice of solving modern business problems through creative states in team coaching