Dr. Silja Litvin, PhD

Dr Silja Litvin brings to this discussion a perspective shaped not only by her work as a psychologist, resilience researcher and executive coach, but also by her experience as a technology founder and CEO. Over the past decade, she founded and led PsycApps, a venture-backed digital mental-health company, taking an evidence-based product from research through clinical validation and commercialisation. She raised capital, built and led multidisciplinary teams, and navigated the competing demands of investors, clients, clinicians, researchers and developers. This gives her a first-hand understanding of the pressure, uncertainty and isolation that can accompany leadership, as well as the tension between embracing what technology makes possible and remaining accountable for its effects on people, culture and performance. Dr Litvin works best with founders, senior leaders and organisations at points when rapid growth, technological change or increased responsibility are beginning to outpace the human systems around them.