Senior Researcher / Consultant

Mónica Velarde

I joined the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) as Senior Consultant and Researcher in 2009. My primary interest is in the relation of corporate social responsibility and business sustainability through innovation management and team/ organizational leadership development in trans-cultural strategic transformation. I am a doctorate candidate at the Tavistock Clinic and East London University.

My work is grounded in systemic thinking with a holistic understanding of organisations as living systems and communities. My passion is in bringing together different parts of an organisational system to interact with its wider community and consider its impact on its wider ecological environment. I have a particular expertise in creating spaces for dialogues between native communities with their respective Health and Energy private and public sector organisations in order to promote learning organisations that are inclusive and loyal to their primary purpose.

As a management coach I challenge managers to innovate with their clients by transforming through actions and the complex dynamics of their organizational life. I aim to inspire meaning and spirit through creative strategies. My coaching clients come from private, public and native American-Indian communities sectors.

In addition to my TIHR identity, I am a member of faculty of the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas and of Esan University Business School. Holding a leading position as Director of Group Relations Programmes in these institutions continues to enrich my professional practice.

My work is based on Tavistock Institute traditions including the Group Relations, systemic and psychodynamic approaches and on my past work as Founder and Director of T-Consult Peru, a research based consultancy working with latest tendencies in Management, Leadership and Human Resources Strategies.

Highlights of my work experience include:

• Project Manager of the Tavistock Institute and American Express partnership
• Direction of the Transformation Programme of the Peruvian Oil and Gas Government Sector ‘Perupetro’
• The Leadership development programme for CAREC, the Administration of Education Resources Committee, a programme directed at the improvement of female leadership in the Petroleum and Gas Peruvian Sector
• Crafting strategic and tactical-level HR initiatives that cultivate successful team and leadership environments and devising comprehensive change interventions that impact front-line managers in areas of sales and customer service as well as senior strategy development executives in areas of, goal alignment, conflict resolution, gender dynamics, team building, and performance management
• Design principles of the Banco de Credito BCP Leadership Model starting 2007 based on an extensive international research of 2007 Fortune 10

I am a certified coach through the Leadership Circle Profile and a Doctorate candidate in Consultation and the Organisation at Tavistock and Portman NHS and East London University. I also hold a Postgraduate diploma in Leading Consultation, Psychoanalysis and Management. I am fluent in Spanish, French and English; I have been educated internationally and awarded Cum Laden in a License Degree in Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Lima, Peru where I previously earned a Bachelor in Psychology degree.