About Fiona
Oka was founded by Fiona Murden (visit fionamurden.com), psychologist and award-winning author of Defining You and Mirror Thinking.
For 25 years, Fiona has worked across leadership, healthcare, education, sport, and the creative industries, profiling and developing what enables people to thrive under pressure, and understanding what leads capable people to struggle, withdraw, or unravel.
Oka brings that work to young people, because the science that helps people at the top should be available to everyone.
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About Oka
Oka exists to ensure that the human skills most closely linked to life outcomes, wellbeing, resilience, and performance are not treated as abstract ideas or personal advantages, but as learnable capabilities, grounded in evidence and taught deliberately.
The work Oka develops is informed by psychology and neuroscience, and shaped in dialogue with expertise from education, data and analytics, workforce development, sport, technology, and lived experience. It is applied in real settings with individuals, students, teams, and institutions, where it can be observed, tested, adjusted, and stress-tested under real conditions.
Learning designs are refined through delivery, feedback, and reflection, and challenged through interdisciplinary input rather than protected by a single theoretical lens. What proves useful is kept. What doesn’t transfer is revised or discarded.
Oka’s role is not to invent new human skills, but to integrate what is already known, across disciplines and contexts, and translate it into practical approaches that people can use, remember, and carry forward over time.
This is how Oka ensures the work remains psychologically grounded, ethically held, and responsive to a changing world.