Consultancy

Fiddy Abraham

Fiddy’s consultancy helps individuals, groups, organisations and groups of organisations improve their understanding and skills for well-being and performance. Fiddy’s work focuses mainly on three areas:

• consultancy to address difficult issues within and across organisations
• support to service delivery, especially within social care and to marginalized groups, working with service users, staff, management and policy actors
• collaboration with public and private sector clients in organization and interorganisational design

Fiddy works out of a broad range of social science approaches, including discourse analysis, conversation and narrative, her original discipline of political science and traditional Tavistock approaches such as socio-technical systems thinking and psychodynamic understandings. Depending on your needs, she uses a variety of methods to support collaboration internally and externally.

Fiddy Abraham joined the Institute in 1976 and has been delivering assignments in action research, consultancy. and formative evaluation, beginning with an action research programme in a merchant fleet. This supported the development of communities on board ships and the re-organisation of back-office functions. Fiddy has designed and delivered educational events and courses for providers such as Civil Service College, the OU Business School and School of Health & Social Welfare, bespoke events for clients and is Faculty on the Institute’s Masters Programme in Advanced Organisational MA in Consulting and Change Management.

Recent and current consultancy cases include:

• Multi-tier local authorities developing collaboration and partnership.
• A public sector organisation facing incremental closure
• A national (Irish) social care provider developing quality in services
• A multi-disciplinary clinic staff group in conflict
• Support to local partners addressing domestic violence.
• Research activities to inform consultancy.