The People Behind MyPsychSim
A team bridging the rigor of academic organizational psychology with the hard-won wisdom of real-world consulting practice.
Dr. Preston V. L. Lindsay, PhD
Organizational Psychologist | Affiliated Faculty, UPenn LPS
At the heart of Dr. Preston V. L. Lindsay's work lies a simple but radical conviction: understanding organizations is not a passive intellectual exercise. It demands immersion, pressure, and the willingness to be wrong in front of real stakeholders. For over a decade, he has built his career on that principle, serving as both scholar and practitioner, teaching at elite institutions while simultaneously running a thriving consulting practice.
Through The Lindsay Group Co., his consulting practice, Dr. Lindsay works directly with organizations navigating the most difficult human challenges: leaders wrestling with organizational trauma, executives stalled by hidden power dynamics, and teams fractured by systemic dysfunction. This dual life, with one foot in the classroom and one foot in the boardroom, has given him an unforgiving clarity. There is a chasm between what students learn in theory and what practitioners must navigate in reality.
As an organizational psychologist, his research focuses on organizational trauma, how destructive leadership, chronic stress, and structural oppression embed themselves as invisible patterns of dysregulation. His interventions integrate systems thinking, Black feminist thought, and cognitive neuroscience into frameworks for genuine organizational repair.
MyPsychSim is where his dual expertise converges: the rigorous theory of the academy and the hard-won wisdom of the consulting trenches. It is his answer to the question that has haunted him for years: How do we build practitioners who can actually do the work?
Growing the Team
We are building a team of organizational psychologists, learning scientists, and AI engineers united by a shared mission: closing the gap between knowing and doing. Stay tuned as we expand.