Business Development and External Relationship Manager

Juliet Scott

I am responsible for the core work generation activities of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR). I work on how to develop research, evaluation and organisational development projects where we can best apply methods and approaches that promote knowledge and learning for those that we are working with and for the benefit of society.

My role is to work with ideas and projects and support staff in their application. Examples of this include demonstrating the understanding of the needs and purposes of evaluation; incorporating new tools into our work such as an organisational cultural survey; bringing lessons learnt from research for the European Commission to the UK and vice versa; the use of social media.

Change, learning and development inform the work of TIHR and having graduated from the Institute's Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change (P3C) I now bring my Fine Arts background to this multi disciplinary practice, thus supporting the Institute to ably respond to its context creatively and dynamically.

Partnership working has always been part of the TIHR approach, such as what can be learnt from working with others who have different values and motivations, or what extra knowledge and dimension is brought through this kind of working. Another element of my role is the exploration and development of existing and developing relationships with existing and potential clients, associates and partners.

I have published a visual paper entitled Light of My Life in the journal of the Israeli Association of the Study of Group and Organisational Process (OFEK) in a themed issue on gender (January, 2010) and presented it in the November 2009 Organisation for the Promotion of the Understanding of Society (OPUS) conference.

I am currently working on another publication entitled Use and assessment of visual methods in the work of The Tavistock Institute: a case of technological change based on my case study for the P3C Course.

I am developing as an artistic change agent who is promoting organisational development and innovation both within the Institute and outside to it, with particular interest in organisation's culture change and cultural organisations.