Lara A. Tcholakian
Lara A. Tcholakian, PhD, is a Canadian-Armenian executive and visiting scholar at Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam), and professor at Matena’s School of Leadership and Professional Development (Armenia). She teaches, publishes, and conducts research on topics that intersect with leadership, collective traumas, systems psychodynamic approaches to leadership, and mindfulness. For more than twenty-five years, she held leadership positions in international non-governmental organisations and the corporate sector, primarily in the areas of socio-economic project development, capacity building, gender rights, organisational development, and HR, and has lived and worked in Canada, France, Peru, Sri Lanka, and Armenia. A published scholar and international speaker, she holds a doctorate in organisational behaviour from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s School of Business and Economics, a master’s degree in socio-economic development from Université Paris 1—Panthéon-Sorbonne, an executive master’s degree in consulting and coaching for change from INSEAD, and a bachelor’s degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. In 2025, she became the founding partner of Elevate, a social enterprise that advances leadership, systemic transformation, and peace-positive business.
Leaders Emerging From Collective Trauma: Journeys of Transgenerational Healing
Leaders Emerging From Collective Trauma: Journeys of Transgenerational Healing examines the impacts of current-day and ancestral collective traumas on leaders and executives to illuminate the human... (more)