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Prof. Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries (France
and Singapore)
Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Raoul
de Vitry dÕAvaucourt Chair of Human Resource Management,
INSEAD, Fontainbleau, France & Singapore
Dr. Kets de Vries brings a different view to the much-studied
subjects of leadership and the dynamics of individual
and organizational change. Bringing to bear his knowledge
and experience of Economics (Econ. Drs., University
of Amsterdam), Management (ITP, MBA, and DBA, Harvard
Business School), and Psychoanalysis (Canadian Psychoanalytic
Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association),
Kets de Vries scrutinizes the interface between international
management, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and dynamic
psychiatry. His specific areas of interest are leadership
development, career dynamics, executive stress, entrepreneurship,
family business, succession planning, cross-cultural
management, team building, coaching, and the dynamics
of corporate transformation and change.
Email: Manfred@orgdyne.com
Please visit the Leaders page
for more about Dr. Kets de Vries.
Jeffrey D. Roth, MD., FASAM, FAGPA (USA)
Addictions Psychiatrist and President, Chicago Center
for the Study of Groups and Organizations (CCSGO)
Dr. Roth is an addictions psychiatrist and seasoned
group relations veteran, who directed the first-ever
“online” group relations conference in
the Tavistock tradition, hosted by ORGDYNE Training
& Consulting, LLC. He graduated from Yale University
Medical School and did his residency in psychiatry
at the University of Chicago. He is board certified
in psychiatry and in the sub-specialty of addictions
psychiatry, and is certified in addictions medicine
by the American Society of Addictions Medicine (ASAM).
He is the president of the Chicago Center for the
Study of Groups and Organizations, a Fellow of ASAM
and a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association.
He is the author of the book Group Psychotherapy
and Recovery from Addiction: Carrying the Message
and the editor of the Journal of Groups in Addiction
and Recovery. He also writes a column on group psychotherapy
for the publication Addiction Professional.
Email: Jeffrey@orgdyne.com
Frans Cilliers, MA, PhD (South Africa)
Professor, Department of Industrial & Organizational
Psychology, University of South Africa
Professor, Department of Industrial & Organisational
Psychology, University of South Africa, Pretoria;
MA., Ph.D. Industrial and Organisational Psychology.
Potchefstroom University;
Psychologist, Category Industrial, South African Board
for Psychology; Master Human Resources Practitioner,
South African Council for Personnel practice
Member of various professional societies such as SIOPSA
(honorary life member), APA, SIOP, ADPCA, ISPSO, OPUS;
Specializing in group facilitation and group relations
training, coaching (role analysis), research; Supervised
40 Masters and 21 Doctorate dissertations at various
universities; Presented 79 conference papers at national
and international conferences; Published 51 academic
articles in accredited (peer-reviewed) journals
Email: Frans@orgdyne.com
Haim Weinberg, PhD (Israel)
Clinical Psychologist/Group Analyst
Haim Weinberg PhD is a clinical psychologist, group analyst (licensed in Israel) and Certified Group Psychotherapist (USA), now in California, US, where he is a Registered Psychological Assistant (#PSB32763), working towards his California Psychologist License. He is the past-president of the Israeli Association of Group Psychotherapy, a faculty member of the group facilitators training program in Tel-Aviv University, ex-director of the group leaders training program in Bet Berl College, and teaches in the Integrative Psychotherapy program, Buber Center, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is a member of the Board of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy (IAGP), and a member of The American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) and the Group Analytic Society (GAS). Haim is the list-owner of the group psychotherapy professional online discussion forum and also the creator and coordinator of a new online doctoral program in group psychotherapy. His professional interests lie in the areas of group processes and group therapy, multicultural issues, conflict resolution, trauma groups, Internet & Large Groups and the Social Unconscious.
Email: Haim@orgdyne.com
Michael A. Fenichel, PhD (USA)
Clinical/School Psychologist
Specialties in Learning, Communication, and Interpersonal Relationships
Private Practice, School and Outpatient Clinic Practice, and Consulting Services since 1987
Licensed Psychologist, State of New York
Defining influences and activities: Clinical work with individuals, groups and families; fifteen years plus in schools, clinics, and private consultation in areas of cognitive and emotional functioning, disability and forensic evaluation; participation in NIMH-funded international study of long-term psycho-social adjustment among de-institutionalized psychiatric patients (Fountain House); leadership positions within professional unions and psychological associations (e.g., 1999 President, New York State Psychological Association, School Psychology Division); training and supervision responsibilities for school districts, professional psychology associations, and university graduate psychology departments, as well as private practice; recent involvement in presenting forums and training on causes of violence, in collaboration with the American Psychological Association and MTV; staff development activities and seminar presentations on the use and study of the Internet for educational and mental health activities; establishment of hundreds of web sites in the areas of mental health, adolescence, Internet, and education; Founding member and 2001 President, International Society of Mental Health Online.
Email: DrMike@orgdyne.com
Ghislaine Caulat, MA, MSc (France)
Organizational Consultant
Ashridge Consulting, UK
Ghislaine has worked as a consultant to and with organizations for the past 15 years. She is currently a Business Director with Ashridge Consulting, UK. In addition to her experience as a consultant to major international organizations, she has worked for several years as a Manager of Business Development, and Internal Consultant with two leading international companies in the automotive and FMCG sectors. Now based in the UK, Ghislaine has lived and worked in several European countries, including Germany, Spain, Italy, Turkey and France.
Ghislaine’s particular interest lies in the area of cross-national and virtual team work/leadership. She has carried out intensive research in this area and is developing consulting approaches to support international organizations to become more effective in implementing virtual teams and virtual work in general. As an example, she has developed a virtual action learning approach that she and her colleagues have been using and successfully implementing with several global organizations around the world, for over three years. In the last two years, she has also developed a virtual leadership concept that she and two other colleagues successfully launched in the autumn of 2007 with a leading global organization in the machinery sector.
Since June of 2006, Ghislaine has been working on her doctorate in Organizational Consulting with a focus on virtual leadership.
Email: Ghislaine@orgdyne.com
Rosa Zubizarreta, MA (USA)
Organizational Development Consultant
Rosa works as an organization development consultant, facilitating creative collaboration and greater effectiveness in business, government, nonprofit, and community settings. Her earlier professional background includes work in education, education reform, and social services, where she gained experience with transformative education, critical pedagogy, learning communities, and strengths-based approaches. In the area of collective intelligence and the evolution of democracy, she has collaborated with Tom Atlee on his book The Tao of Democracy (Imprint/Book Surge, 2002) and written on the social applications of dialogue for the Collective Wisdom Initiative. Zubizarreta holds a Master of Arts degree in psychology from the Organization Development program at Sonoma State University and in multicultural education from the University of San Francisco.
Email: Rosa@orgdyne.com
Michael Wilkins BA (hons), Dip Systemic Management, CMCIPD (UK)
Director and founder: Sandpiper Initiatives
Principal Consultant: Slam Partners
Michael trained at the Tavistock Clinic, London as a family therapist working in Child Psychiatry settings in London for 15 years. He taught at the Tavistock Clinic, the Institute for Family Therapy and other major Institutes in London. For the past 12 years he has been consulting to organisations, having set up his own company, Sandpiper Initiatives. He is also employed by a large Health Trust, facilitating strategic change as the delivery and funding culture changes within the UK National Health Service. He enjoys the challenge of working with professionals who are confronted with changes in the culture of their service which impacts on their long held beliefs and assumptions about how their service should be delivered.
Michael works with senior executives and managers, providing coaching and developing their skills to better manage their teams through change. He also facilitates development days with teams “in trouble” to help improve the way they work together. Michael was a member of staff on the online group relations conference, “Systems Psychodynamics of Virtual Teamwork: The Role of Trust and Anxiety in Collaborative Group Process” run by Orgdyne Training and Consulting, LLC. Recently he trained as a professional mediator and is a member of the Professional Mediators Association in the UK.
http://www.sandpiperinitiatives.co.uk
Email: Michael@orgdyne.com
Dr. Gary Gemmill (USA)
Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behavior, School
of Management, Syracuse University
Dr. Gemmill has more than 35 years experience in organizational
behavior and leadership studies. His extensive research
and writings (many of which are available for download
from the “Papers" link of our web site)
challenge the old paradigm of "leaders"
in "command and control" of their organizations
and provide the scientific foundation for breakthroughs
in leadership development. Gary's approach is grounded
in experience---his ideas are an outgrowth of his
consultancy in real work cases, group process facilitation,
consultation, and executive personal growth retreats.
His domain of expertise explores the “psychodynamics”
of leadership, executive coaching, and intervening
into emotional dynamics of groups. He is Professor
Emeritus of Organizational Behavior, School of Management,
Syracuse University, and coauthor of Team Mirroring:
Illusions and Realities of Team Dynamics and Development,
published by the Handley Group, Inc.
Email: Gary@orgdyne.com
Dr. Miriam Hirschfeld (Israel)
Organizational Consultant
Dr. Miriam Hirschfield works in organizational consulting
and resource development, leadership education, and
dispute management with a prominent Jerusalem-based
capacity-building institution advancing social change,
as well as with private firms. An attorney by training
and the former executive director of an organization
for the study and teaching of Jewish memory and identity,
she has recently completed an advanced degree in group
relations and the psychodynamics of organizations.
She was born in Italy, lived and practiced across
three continents before journeying to the Middle East.
Her professional interests include strategic planning,
creative thinking and consulting using guided imagery
and writing, career transitions, and cross-cultural
communication.
Email: Miriam@orgdyne.com
Cynthia Rogers (UK)
Group Analyst
Cynthia Rogers addresses the awkward business and
clinical questions, faced by those in independent
practice, in her book ‘Psychotherapy and Counselling:
A Professional Business’ Wiley 2004. She is
particularly interested in challenging unconscious
cultural assumptions. For over twenty years she has
taught, supervised and practiced as a psychoanalytic
psychotherapist. As a Group Analyst she brings to
organisational consultancy a unique perspective, which
sees the individual in the context of the group. This
constantly shifting focus between the individual and
the group is grounded in the sociological theories
of Norbert Elias, G. H. Mead and Complexity theory.
As a visiting tutor and researcher at Goldsmiths College,
London University, Cynthia is looking at "professionalisation."
Another research interest is "international online
supervision." Valued as a keynote speaker, her most
recent critically acclaimed workshop was entitled
Projective Processes to Social Intelligence -
How can the Group Process be harnessed?
Web Site: www.groupanalyst.com.
Email: Cynthia@orgdyne.com
Brigid S. Nossal BA, MEd, PhD (Australia)
Organizational Consultant
Brigid has worked as a consultant to organisations
for the past 15 years. Her primary commitment is to
creating opportunities for transformational learning
for the individual, the group and the organisation.
Brigid has dedicated the past 6 years to developing
a systems psychodynamic approach in her consulting
and contributing to the development of the community
of practice in Group Relations in Australia. She was
awarded a Fellowship of the former Australian Institute
of Socio-Analysis (AISA) and subsequently became a
founding member of Group Relations Australia (GRA).
She is Secretary on the Committee of Management and
Associate Editor of GRA's journal, Socio-Analysis.
Brigid has recently completed a PhD entitled, "Systems
Psychodynamics and Consulting to Organisations in
Australia". She has had several experiences of
Group Relations Conferences as a member and on staff.
Most recently, Brigid joined the Advanced Praxis Group
at the Leicester conference
Email: Brigid@orgdyne.com
Dr. Gouranga Chattopadhyay (India)
CEO, Chattopadhyay Associates
Gouranga P. Chattopadhyay is CEO, Chattopadhyay Associates:
Organisational Consultants & Personal Counsellors;
Professor Emeritus; Academy of Human Resources Development,
Ahmedabad (India). He has held faculty positions at
the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (India);
Manchester Business School (UK), Graduate School of
Management, Swinburne University, Melbourne (Australia);
University College of Swansea, (UK); and Delhi School
of Economics, Delhi University; has been UNDP/CFTC
Adviser on Modern Management Techniques, East African
Community, Tanzania; Consultant at the Leicester Group
Relations Conferences (GRC) of the Tavistock Institute
of Human Relations, also group relations conferences
held in UK by The Grubb Institute of Behavioural Studies
(London), by Emeritus Professor A. John Allaway in
Nottingham, by Patrick Behan in Sheffield, in Lorne
& Melbourne of the Institute of Socio-Analysis,
Australia, Amsterdam GRCs of Group Relations Nederland,
OFEK’s Israeli GRCs and a Trinidad GRC of IFSI
(France), as also numerous Indian GRCs.
Gouranga has directed more than 50 of the above group
relations conferences. His expertise is in organisational
problem diagnosis, problem solving, and management
training, which he has applied as a consultant in
Asia, Australia, Africa and Europe. He also offers
personal counselling to managers. He organises team
building programmes with indoor and outdoor exercises,
including outward bound programmes and concept sessions.
He has completed personal psychoanalysis in 1983;
is trained in Yoga at the Bihar School of Yoga and
was initiated there as Karma Sannyasin Tattwaratna
by Paramahamsa Niranjanananda Saraswati in 1995).
His publications include 5 books and 106 articles
in the professional area of work, 4 volumes of poems
(in English) and an English translation of a Bengali
novel. Work in progress: sixth professional book,
fifth collection of poems, and a translation of Tagore’s
poems & songs. His hobbies include making walking
sticks.
Email: Gouranga@orgdyne.com
Christine Davies (Wales)
Social Entrepreneur; Organisation Consultant and Development
Coach
"Whilst I remain in awe and learn so much from the
academic and professional knowledge underpinning the
Systems Psychodynamic approaches, my own passion and
commitment is towards applications which facilitate
global change, especially within emergent nations.
I work with individuals, organisations and institutions
realising their potential and releasing the creative
energy to effect social change.
I work with groups exploring roles being taken up
relating to leadership and citizenship; applying group
process techniques to enable new meaning and direction
to emerge, facilitating individuals and teams to take
up their unique roles and engage to make a difference.
I work with the essence of the social entrepreneur
spirit to find its voice and contribution to the creation
of a sustainable future in this richly diverse world.
I encourage exploration of differences and creative
tensions; of limiting beliefs and ‘disabilities
in the mind’; of the natural rhythms, flows
and cycles of life and I seek the treasures and synergistic
solutions that lie at the intersections of possibilities.
My work with a range of clients across public, private
and voluntary sectors, as well as with government
departments and academia facilitates pollination and
connectivity of ideas and opportunities."
Email: Christine@orgdyne.com
Elio Vera (Italy)
Director of Executive Education Programmes, CESMA,
Milan
Elio Vera studied philosophy and psychology at the
University of Milan. He spent 20 years working in
marketing and sales in multinational companies including
Henkel, Unilever, Young & Rubicam and Cheeseborough
Ponds. He is now Director of the Executive Education
Programmes at CESMA, the Milan-based business school
he co-founded in 1968, specialising in commercial
and management training. He has worked as a consultant
in Executive Education in UK, Spain, Switzerland,
Bulgaria and Russia, specialising in analysis of group
relations and organisational development using the
Tavistock Model, particularly dealing with authority,
leadership and innovation, and transition processes
in small and medium sized enterprises. Since 1998,
he is part of the staff of the Arona Conferences on
Group Relations and in 2003 he taught at the Complutense
University in Madrid, in roles from consultant to
director, associate director and administrator.
Email: Elio@orgdyne.com
Professor Pamela Palanque North (USA)
Principal, Palanque & Associates, New York
Pamela Palanque-North is an innovator in the area
of organization development, training and education
with over twenty years of solid experience and success.
Pamela has been on the staff of Yale University’s
Division for Training and Consultation, New York University
Medical Center, The Institute for Puerto Rican Urban
Studies and AT&T, Bell Laboratories. During her
tenure at these organizations she served as a staff
consultant and director of group management training
programs such as Human Relations Laboratories and
Group Relations Conferences. These conferences were
designed to support the individual, group and organization
effectiveness of organization leaders, managers and
other professionals in public and private sector.
The Yale University Training Division Conferences
were widely acknowledged by Applied Behavioral Scientists
as having contributed to the practical application
of ABS theory to corporate and government organizations
in the United States and abroad.
Email: Pamela@orgdyne.com
Earon Kavanaugh (Canada)
Family Therapist and Consultant
Earon is a family therapist and consultant with a
long history of assisting groups enhance project collaborations
and relationships. His consulting projects have included
responses to international incidents and communities
of refugees, developing the cultures of two large
organizations, family relations and conflict, and
most recently, enhancing community collaborations
between the arts and business communities within diverse
networks. Since 1996 his research interests have included
critical engagement with professional communities
of practice theory and several reflective case studies.
He is also directing a documentary on Vancouver gentrification
practices and their effects on the community: "The
Main Street Film" For several years Earon has been
completing a PhD related to innovation, organizing
processes and communities of practice (CoPs) with
Dr. Dian Marie Hosking and Dr. John Rijsman at Tilburg
University. He is currently near completion of his
dissertation "Organizing Non Subject-Object Relations
in Communities of Practice". Additionally he has two
books near completion: Virtual Communities in
Practice: Organizing, Knowing, and Relations and
Voices from Aceh (on refugee stories of atrocities
and torture in Indonesia). In 2002, collaborating
with members of Europe’s Odyssey Group, Earon
contributed a chapter to a book on virtual organizing:
Organizing in the Information Age: Distributed Technology,
Distributed Leadership, Distributed Identity, Distributed
Discourse (Ashgate Publishers).
Web site: www.5thprovince.ca
Email: Earon@orgdyne.com
Carl L. Jennings (USA)
CEO and Founder, INFOSPAN, LLC
Carl L. Jennings, Chairman, CEO and founder of Infospan,
LLC, is an organization and management development
specialist working in the applied behavioral sciences
for over 28 years. His practice focuses on equipping
organizations to compete in today’s global environment.
Mr. Jennings has consulted to business, educational
and government organizations in the US and Canada,
Western Europe, the Caribbean, and West Africa. Other
assignments have included consultation to senior managers
from Samsung and Sunkyong corporations, and teaching,
mentoring and coaching executives from Samsung corporation,
and an Aresty Institute of Executive Education senior
manager.
He received his M.S. in Education from City College
and B.A. magna cum laude as an interdisciplinary major
in the honors program from Queens College. Both degrees
were earned at The City University of New York. Other
training and professional development was received
through the Yale University School of Medicine Department
of Psychiatry, Training and Consultation Division.
Mr. Jennings was invited to become a professional
member of the NTL Institute in 1984. He has co-developed,
designed and delivered professional development programs
for NTL Institute’s Customized Training and
Consulting Service Group.
Web Site: www.infospan.com
Email: Carl@orgdyne.com
Irith Raveh, MA (Israel)
Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist; Organizational Consultant;
Initiator & Chairperson, Israel Forum of Neuro-Psychoanalysis;
Founding Member, International Society of Neuro-Psychoanalysis;
Former Chairperson, Scientific Committee Israel Association
of Psychotherapy.
Email: Irith@orgdyne.com
Gloria Mateu i Vives, PhD (Spain)
Psychotherapist and Counsellor
PhD in Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment
(Barcelona University); Counsellor Generalitat de
Catalunya Departament d'Ensenyament (Barcelona); Psychotherapist
Servei de Salut Mental de la Fundació Hospital
de Sant Pere Claver (Barcelona); Psychotherapist ACPP
i FEAP; MA Social Psychology (Autonoma University,
Barcelona); MA Emotional factors in Learning and Teaching;
Clinical Associate. (Tavistock Centre, 1999, London).
Email: Gloria@orgdyne.com
Katherine Harding, MA, LPC, PsyD (USA)
Doctoral Candidate and Group Relations Consultant
Katherine has earned a doctorate from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University, Chicago. She has also worked quite extensively as an administrator of several group relations conferences (both face-to-face and online).
Email: Katherine@orgdyne.com
Dr. Zeb Waturuocha (Nigeria)
Organizational Consultant
Zeb O. Waturuocha is an Honours graduate in Economics.
He has earned a MBA and Ph.D. in Management Science,
M.A. in Psychology, and PGD Human Resource Management.
A process-oriented Consulting, Training and Development
specialist, Zeb employs OD and Behavioural Science-based
interventions to facilitate human and organisational
growth and effectiveness. Zeb is a trainer, facilitator
and mentor for the corporate as well as non-corporate
sector. He is a professional member of the Indian
Society for Applied Behavioural Sciences (ISABS an
accredited institute for Sensitivity Training). Trained
in Experiential Learning Methodology, Future Search,
Open Space Technology, Appreciative Inquiry, Diversity
and Inclusion, Emotional Intelligence, Zeb undertakes
small and large-group intervention and facilitation.
He is the principal consultant of AUI Consultants
(The Human Process People), a consulting, training
and development outfit for human and organisational
growth. He is a keen social worker and has several
years of experience in working with NGOs. Zeb has
pioneered several programmes on Emotional Literacy
for School Heads and teachers. An advocate of Cooperative
Communication, Zeb facilitates change management within
organizations.
Email: Zeb@orgdyne.com
Paul Owers: (UK)
Principal Consultant, Catalysis Associates
MBA (INSEAD); MA Advanced Organizational Consultation,
Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and City University,
London; Professional Member, Tavistock Institute 60th
Anniversary Refresh Programme, London; Founder, 'The
Tavistock Institute Community', an on-line community
of practice and collaborative project workspace; Professional
Member, The Tavistock Institute Advanced Organizational
Consultation Society; Managing Director and Principal
Consultant, Catalysis Associates, London.
Email: Paul@orgdyne.com
Judit Révész, MSOD (Hungary)
Member, Global Coordinating Team, Center for Human
Dignity and Humiliation Studies
Judit graduated from ELTE School of Law Budapest,
Hungary in 1998 and practiced litigation and corporate
law for a year in Hungary. She then studied conflict
resolution and mediation at Columbia University, Teachers
College, in New York in 2001. Ms. Revesz subsequently
worked as a mediator in New York on cases referred
by the Small Claims Court. In this capacity she experienced
how mediation actually fulfills the deepest meaning
of conflict resolution for all parties as opposed
to only litigation. She also worked as a facilitator
on numerous conflict resolution courses and trainings
at Teachers College and at the United Nations. She
has worked as a process consultant with clients, such
as a large health care organization in New York, the
United Nations Development Programme and the National
Public Radio on change management and strategic planning.
She is involved with the Center for Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, and has earned a Masters degree in organization development from American University and the NTL Institute.
Website: www.humiliationstudies.org
Email: Judit@orgdyne.com
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