
Mischa Coster MA MSc
Lead Behavioral Scientist at Mindsync
Media psychologist NIP, Persuasion expert. Founder Grey Matters. Co-founder and behavioral strategist Guideology. Lead behavioral scientist Mindsync. Speaker. Jury member. Perspectivist #iamapsychologist
About Mischa Coster MA MSc
** If you like my updates, posts and articles, please follow me! I reserve connection requests only for people I've met in real life or spent a fair amount of time with online working together on a project. ** Practicing psychology since 1999, I boost (behavioural) results of marketing- and communication activities by applying psychological techniques. Keynotes, seminars, workshops and consultancy. I put the theory and research into practice through behaviour change projects and interventions for clients (putting my money where my mouth is). Call me +31648109269 and I will make time for you. "I believe in the power of perspectives ⌆. I change how people see things by applying evidence- and experience-based and theory-inspired psychological tactics." Primary focus is influence & persuasion, human behavior modification through persuasive communications and persuasive technology. I often use the Intervention Mapping framework, CASI, Fogg Behavior Model, COM-B / Behavior Change Wheel and the REDUCE framework. Secondary focus is the application of these principles and methods on the fields of social media marketing, organisational development, public health, information security (social engineering prevention strategies, security awareness) and Artificial Intelligende (AI). ️ Love human behavior. How people (inter)act, feel & decide. Both online and offline. I believe organizations can benefit greatly from psychological insights in marketing, sales, education and more. ️ Always available for an acquaintance, intake or short advice. I will make time for that. Due to limited availability, please include date or duration of project in public speaking & project requests. If possible I will reply the same day. ️ mischa (at) greymatters (dot) nl +31648109269 Specialties: *** Psychology: behavior influence and change *** Media psychology *** Consumer psychology *** Behavioral strategy *** Persuasive communication *** Intervention Mapping *** Creative Strategy *** Contagion & Viral marketing *** Chief Psychology Officer *** Media strategy *** AI *** Online Marketing & Social Media ***
Skills & Expertise
Career Journey
Lead Behavioral Scientist
Founding Partner / Psychologist & Behavioral Strategist
As behavioral strategist I am responsible for the interventions we develop for our client. We focus exclusively on the financial services industry where we guide customer behavior in a direction that s mutually beneficial of even necessary. We research and analyse customer behavior in order to identify the behavioral determinants. Knowing these, we advise on which behavior influence strategies and tactics are most appropriate, practical, promising and ethical. We then develop the behavioral journey or intervention map which serves as the behavioral strategy for the development of the actual campaign. Based on this behavioral strategy, we advise on - and contribute to the development of the chosen interventions. The receiver of our work is usually the person responsible for marketing & communication at our client or the agency our client works with. We then take on a rol as quality assurance for the implementation of the behavioral strategy. This way we ensure the effectiveness of the chosen interventions and tactics in the campaign. By doing this, the client s marketing/communication professionals and the creatives at the agency know exactly what the psychological boundaries are within which they can operate. This way they have clarity about things they usually make assumptions on, resulting in optimal effect of their professional work.
Jury member
The Digital Communication Awards honour outstanding achievements, professional campaigning and strategic thinking in online communications in 34 categories.
Guest lecturer
Guest lecturer for applied social psychology, international business, international communication management, PhD graduate schools. Haagse Hogeschool, University of Maastricht, Radboud University, Nyenrode Business University, Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam, Leiden University and Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
Chief Psychology Officer NIP
Applied social- and mediapsychology. Consulting. Research. Influence. Persuasion. Behavior change. Social- and cross media. Organizational intervention mapping. Creators of the Chief Psychology Officer role. We can help you influence your target audience s behaviour using: - In-depth qualitative research of target audiences - Persuasive Marketing Strategies - Behaviour Change Strategies - Persuasive Campaigning - Online Conversion Optimisation - Intervention Mapping - Habit Formation - Crossmedia Strategy - Peruasion Profiling - Media Psychology insights Our clients include organizations in profit and nonprofit. We have done work for regional and national government, semi-government, financials, recruitment, fmcg, advertising, automative and healthcare.
Public Speaker
Keynotes, seminars, guest lectures and inspirational sessions about consumer psychology, social psychology, media psychology, nudging, behaviour influence, escalation prevention, fake news and social engineering.
Episodes with Mischa Coster MA MSc
Episodes in Dutch

Soft Persuasion: katalyseren ipv overtuigen, met Mischa Coster
Guest: Mischa Coster URL: https://nl.cro.cafe/gast/mischa-coster

Digitale slecht-nieuws gesprekken: het Escalatie Preventie Model (deel 2), met Mischa Coster
Guest: Mischa Coster URL: https://nl.cro.cafe/gast/mischa-coster

Digitale slecht-nieuws gesprekken: het Escalatie Preventie Model (deel 1), met Mischa Coster
Guest: Mischa Coster URL: https://nl.cro.cafe/gast/mischa-coster