IAN MCLAREN WALLACE
Ian McLaren Wallace is a multi-award winning Leadership and Organisational Psychologist renowned for his unique and innovative approaches to human behaviour. He expertly blends deep psychological insight with practical, real-world application, making complex concepts accessible and actionable. His work focuses on successfully navigating the intricate dynamics of human interaction at both the individual and collective levels. His work empowers a diverse range of clients - from C-suite executives in global corporations to founders of agile start-ups - through their most crucial challenges. At the core of his philosophy is the belief that understanding human behaviour is the ultimate competitive advantage. He guides individuals and teams to not just to survive complex challenges, but to thrive within them. His work moves beyond abstract theory, offering participants impactful methods to unlock potential, build resilient teams, and create healthier, more productive organisational cultures.
BOOKS
Ian's books are inspired by his extensive work in Deep Psychology. This is not the psychology of the laboratory or the clinic; it is the psychology of the theatre, the temple, and the artist’s studio. It understands that to get from atoms to artworks, from quarks to QAnon, you need more than a theory of mind; you need a theory of imagination. It is a psychological practice dedicated to reading the invisible patterns, the archetypal forces, and the foundational myths that silently govern our lives, our businesses, and our cultures. It does not seek to reduce the glorious, terrifying complexity of human behaviour to a set of predictable variables. Instead, it offers a way to navigate that complexity with wisdom, creativity, and courage.
LOVED OR SHOVED?
In our push for market share, we've filled our strategies with data and analytics, but we've lost something essential: an understanding of genuine connection. LOVED OR SHOVED is not another manual of marketing tactics. It's a revolutionary framework that reimagines your brand as a celestial STOR - a centre of gravity with its own immense power of attraction. Using this powerful model, the book reveals how to build your STOR's narrative mass, measure true Emotional Proximity, and harness the invisible forces that secretly determine if a brand is embraced or rejected. It provides a new way of seeing that transforms brand-building from a series of transactions into an act of profound connection, creating brands that are not just more profitable, but more resilient, more meaningful, and genuinely loved.
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POSSIBILISTICS
We’ve been taught our brain is a prediction machine, constantly calculating the odds to keep us safe in a stable world. But in an era of radical uncertainty, this focus on the probable has become our greatest limitation. POSSIBILISTICS is not just another book on creativity or positive thinking. It is a revolutionary guide to your brain's most powerful and overlooked capability: its function as a possibility generator. Drawing from leading-edge neuroscience, this book reveals the hidden cognitive process that allows some people to see opportunity where others see only obstacles. It provides a new framework to develop this innate skill, enabling you to generate breakthrough solutions, navigate uncertainty with confidence, and transform your world into a landscape rich with unexplored potential.
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PSYCHOMETEORICS
Ever feel your office atmosphere shift without warning, where a productive buzz mysteriously becomes a tense silence? Our standard management tools - engagement surveys, personality profiles - give us static snapshots, but they fail to explain the dynamic currents of morale, trust, and pressure that truly drive performance. PSYCHOMETEORICS presents a powerful new framework. It views your organization not as a machine to be fixed, but as a weather system to be understood. You'll learn to distinguish the long-term Organizational Climate of your culture from the day-to-day Organizational Weather - the immediate mood, energy, and stress levels. This book is your guide to forecasting future organisational storms and navigating the invisible forces that determine everything.
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Ian’s Journal can be considered as a welcoming and warmly lit workshop for that most brilliantly baffling of machines: the human dynamic. Here he attempts to make some sense of the glorious, chaotic ballet of how people work together, or indeed, fail to. You will find his latest dispatches from the front lines of psychology, and from journeys along the liminal edge.
SOMETIMES
Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest
breathing like the ones in the old stories
who could cross a shimmering bed of dry leaves without a sound
Read Sometimes →
LIVING ON THE EDGE
My invitation was to participate in an organisational visioning event as an ‘embedded psychological observer’. My invitation had been courtesy of the organisation's Group Human Resources Director, following a ‘suggestion’, i.e. a direct command, from the organisation’s chairman and CEO, a man often described in the organisation’s press releases as ‘wildly charismatic’.
Read Living On The Edge →
BEN HOPE
To walk up into the dusk is an inversion of the usual order of things. I leave the road late, when others are descending, their faces ruddy with the day’s work. The air by the roadside is thick with the scent of bog myrtle and the low, peaty exhalations of the Flow Country. Before me, the path up Ben Hope is a pale nerve-ending in the vast body of the mountain, a line of geological memory worn into the Moine schist by the tread of millennia. I am walking against the clock of the sun, chasing the gloaming upwards.
Read Ben Hope →GUIDES
These immersive soundscapes are guided visualisations that Ian creates with his clients in one-on-one coaching sessions. Being immersed in these guided visualisations can help to quieten busy minds and help you to become more self and situationally aware. As you do so, you naturally develop your deeper and wider potential as you navigate challenges and opportunities.
Guided Visualisations are only to be used in situations where you can be physically still during the visualisation process.
BE A BETTER COACH
Be A Better Coach inspires you to expand your coaching skills and become an even better coach. This immersive space gives you the space to explore ways of creating a special space for you and your coaching client. In this inspiring visualisation, you are guided around a beautiful garden and learn how to create a coaching space at a deeper and transformative level.
Immerse Yourself In This Guide →BE A BETTER ENTREPRENEUR
Be a Better Entrepreneur focuses you on deepening your entrepreneurial drive so you can become an even better entrepreneur. This immersive space gives you the space to dig deeper into the hidden value of an entrepreneurial opportunity that no one else might see. In this rewarding visualisation, you explore an opening for you as an entrepreneur, and as you overcome entrepreneurial challenges, you learn how to find and realise previously unseen value.
Immerse Yourself In This Guide →BE A BETTER FACILITATOR
Be A Better Facilitator centres you on expanding your facilitation skills so that you can become an even better facilitator. This immersive space gives you the space to navigate fast-moving and potentially turbulent group situations and guide them to a safe collective outcome. In this flowing visualisation, you channel your natural understanding to help a group of people navigate themselves to a successful outcome and collective understanding.
Immerse Yourself In This Guide →CONTACT
For all television, radio, corporate, PR, podcast and interview
enquiries, please email your enquiry to
ian@ianmclarenwallace.com
As an internationally published, best-selling author, Ian no longer
provides free content for commercial publications.