Consultancy
Eliat Aram, PhD, CPsych
Dr. Aram is the Director of the Tavistock Institute. She is a practising chartered psychologist (BPS) and a UKCP registered psychotherapist, working as a management coach, process consultant and trainer for organisations both in the public and private sectors with prime interest in issues of team/organisational leadership development and strategic transformation, multi-culturalism and diversity.
Her work is based on Tavistock Traditions including the Group Relations approach, on Gestalt theory and therapy, on systemic and psychodynamic approaches and on her past work as part of the complexity and management centre, University of Hertfordshire.
As a management coach she helps, supports and challenges managers through their journey of growth by inviting them to think about and reflect upon their flow of experience as leaders in the corporation.
Her coaching clients come from private, public and voluntary sectors, commercial and education based businesses. In Eliat`s client work she has developed and run team development courses/ workshops for groups of managers that were informed by the ideas of emergence and self-organisation as well as power dynamics and dialogue. Eliat has been involved in multi-agency and multi-disciplinary work on leadership programmes helping people on the ground in translating government initiatives and national strategies into local action whilst meeting targets. She has developed and run a two-year project for small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) developing skills and attitudes to working in conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity, which characterise business life today.
She has staffed and directed Group Relations conferences nationally and internationally. Since 2007 she has directed and innovated the Tavistock Institute`s renowned Group Relations conference 'Authority, Role and Organisation' (the 'Leicester' conference).
Publications include:
Aram, E. (2001)
The experience of complexity: learning as the potential transformation of identity. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Hertfordshire.
Aram, E. (2000)
Virtual Dynamics and Socio-Technical Systems, in The New SocioTech, Coakes, Willis & Lloyd-Jones (eds.), Springer, pp160-169.
Aram, E. & Noble, D. (1999)
Educating prospective managers in the complexity of organisational life: Teaching and learning from a complexity perspective. Management Learning, vol.30. no.3, pp 321- 342.
Aram, E. & Noble, D. (1998)
Working with small business managers in conditions of ambiguity and uncertainty. The Complexity & Management Working Papers Series, no. 18.
