PRACTICE IN LEADERSHIP PSYCHOLOGY,
HIGH PERFORMANCE EXECUTIVE COACHING
&
CORPORATE FORENSIC - OPERATIONAL AND
INVESTIGATIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSULTING

Serving Ottawa Ontario, Gatineau Quebec and Consulting Globally (613) 889-1720

To decode, transform, and strategically elevate the human factor in high-stakes leadership and operational environments.

Whether guiding senior corporate and government executives through complex internal dynamics and high-performance challenges, or consulting on adversarial risk and corporate security, intelligence-counter-intelligence, we work at the intersection of deep psychology and strategic outcomes.

Choose Your Domain of Engagement:

🔹 Ottawa -Executive &Clinical Leadership Psychology

For senior leaders, elite professionals, and high-performing organizations.
We help those in positions of influence strengthen leadership, executive performance, develop deep personal psycho-dynamic insight and clarity, emotional intelligence, relational intelligence, psychological resilience and mental toughness. Through deep psychodynamic insight, clinical leadership consultation, and trusted advisory, we support transformation where it matters most — within the self, within teams, and within systems.

🔹 Ottawa-Forensic - Operational & Investigative Psychological consultation

For legal, corporate, intelligence, and national security environments.
Pneuma consulting psychologists provides elite forensic-operational and investigative psychological consulting in adversarial and risk-laden settings — including insider threat assesments(corporate espionage and sabotage), person of interest psychological profiling, hostile actor analysis, litigation consultation and investigative strategy and person specific investigative interviewing methodologies, risk assesment and human intelligence and counter-intelligence operations advisory, consultation on identifying and dealing with psycho-pathology issues and “dark triad” personality style risk situations. When the stakes are high and clarity is critical, we bring deep psychological acuity to complex human problems.

Our Practice Director

PROFESSIONAL BIO — PHILIP JOHN McMAHON, B.A, M.S. DMin, PSY.D., 
Strategist | Intelligence & Counterintelligence Specialist |
Clinical Leadership Advisor} Consultant Forensic Psychologist

Philip John McMahon is a uniquely qualified thought leader at the intersection of forensic psychology, Corporate intelligence,-counter intelligence and strategic clinical leadership consulting. With a career spanning over four decades, Dr. McMahon has served as a Police commissioner, special advisor on policing and intelligence strategy and operations, Director of a private Corporate Intelligence- Counterintelligence,Human intelligence and complex investigations firm, and a consultant forensic and operational psychologist, C-suite Executive leader in Mental health, Forensic psychiatry , addictions service systems, Executive level Management advisor and clinical leadership consultant. He has served as the chief negotiator in a number of police department collective bargaining processes and has led extensive reforms in large and complex change and re-structuring corporate processes within multiple unionized environments.

Licensed as a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and Certified Psychological Profiler, McMahon has served in C-suite Executive positions leading complex system-level reforms in policing, corrections, and forensic mental health organizations and systems while advising national and international boards of directors in Forensic as well as clinical arena’s. His expertise in Strategy, Human intelligence, psychodynamic profiling, insider espionage and sabotage threat analysis,hostage situational dynamics and executive clinical and leadership dysfunction and psycho-pathology has positioned him as a critical asset to corporate boards, law firms, intelligence teams, and C-suite leaders facing complex human challenges in high-stakes environments.

His work moves beyond traditional leadership and organizational development development, cutting into the pathology, politics, and power dynamics that often sabotage decision-making at the top. From diagnosing dark triad traits, addictions and behavioral health issues in executives to neutralizing internal saboteurs, McMahon brings psychological precision and operational realism to organizations navigating risk, complexity, and disruption.

A trusted strategic advisor, he has been deployed as a negotiator in high-stakes crises, a surgical consultant to organizations in collapse, and as an Executive and leader and advisor to elite teams across intelligence, Policing legal, corporate, and governmental domains. He blends the rigor of deep  Forensic psychological practice with the strategic lens of front line and executive level Intelligence- counterintelligence, law enforcement and investigative experience. Over the years in addition to his other duties he maintained a private practice providing Clinical leadership consulting( focusing his practice in the area’s of working with Executives manifesting significant “dark triad” (psychopathy, machiavellianism, narcissitic) personality disorders, addictions and significant behavioral health problems.— offering clients not just insight, but intervention as well as consultation to legal counsel and labour relations professionals. Testifying in court he has been designated as an expert witness in the area of psycho-pathology. During his educational formation he earned undergraduate as well as Masters and Doctoral Degree's with a focus on Criminology, Forensic psychology, clinical psychology and post graduate certificates in Negotiation, Mediation , Arbitration and attended several law enforcement training programs. He holds and has had licensure as a Forensic-Clinical Psychologist in multiple Canadian jurisdictions and is a  member of the Ontario Psychological Association, International Association for Jungian Studies, the Society for Consulting Psychologists, society of police and criminal psychology, society of military psychology and forensic psychology group, the international association of risk management intelligence professionals, the society for corporate competitive intelligence professionals, American society of Forensic criminologists, The European society of criminal intelligence professionals, He has been awareded Diplomate staus in Forensic Evaluation, Canadian Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association,(I.S.T.D.P.), Harvard university-Mclean Executive coaching association ,International Society for Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations and the American leadership association.Through the American society of clinical hypnosis he obtained extensive training in forensic hypnosis in the investigative and intelligence domains. He also through the Ontario Solicitor General’s office earned a license as a Private sector investigator and have also obtained an agency license to operate an investigation firm.

McMahon is also a frequent keynote speaker and corporate retreat facilitator, delivering powerful sessions on leadership,power, pathology, leadership, and strategic recovery as well as a series of professional training and speaking sessions in the area of Forensic, investigative and operational psychological dynamics in investigative, intelligence and counter-intelligence trade craft. His advisory model integrates forensic-clinical psychology, Depth oriented clinical leadership psycho-dynamics and psycho-pathology within organizational systems, and deep internal and external threat intelligence analysis to create transformation at the highest levels of command.

Serving Ottawa Ontario, Gatineau Quebec and Consulting Globally : contact (613-8891720)