Consultancy

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For change you can’t quite name — or solve.

We work beneath the surface, with how people behave, make decisions and lead under pressure — and together we translate what we find into action.

Tell us what you are grappling with

Organisational consulting from the Tavistock Institute, the home of systems psychodynamics, founded in 1947.

Challenges our clients bring

‘Our restructure created more problems than it solved.’

‘This culture needs to change — but nobody knows how to shift it.’

‘Our leadership team agrees in the room — then fragments outside it.’

‘Previous change efforts stalled, then made things worse.’

‘We seem to lose the capacity to think clearly when the pressure is on.’

Hear from organisations we have worked with

Find the answers to your challenges with Tavistock trained consultants

Our consultants will accompany you through complexity, with rigour and humanity.

We work with

⟶ individuals to support capacity to learn and lead

⟶ teams to build effectiveness

⟶ larger departments and organisations to enable improvement, culture change or transformation.

We are as happy to carry out a one-time role analysis or co-organise a single workshop for your team, as we are to plan a large-scale, multi-stage transformation programme.

Throughout, we draw on theoretical frameworks and practical tools developed from decades of Tavistock Institute research and practice.

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Tavistock approaches in action

We work with our clients to uncover the tensions and dilemmas that might be holding back teams or impeding performance and we support you to shape and enact sustainable steps forward to meet your goals.

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Diagnostic inquiry

— to inform our position and support yours, we listen.

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Role analysis

— Organisational Role Analysis (ORA) supports a person to understand their role in the system they inhabit.

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Action learning

— collaborative inquiry in groups, for organisational learning.

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Experiential learning

— the work happens in the room, in real time, in approaches derived from group relations conferences.

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Developmental evaluation

— supporting innovation in real-time.

In practice

Consultancy for private, public and third sectors — across the UK and internationally.

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A tale of little numbers affecting big numbers at global tech company ASML

The CEO’s brief to our team was to encourage integrated working across international boundaries and enable competing groups be more outward-focused

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Diving into the unknown: how a European bank tackled a much-needed culture change

How we helped a national development bank to update its strategy and values

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The alignment of leadership and purpose at Omved Gardens

Transition and leadership development with an ambitious not-for-profit in London

More of our work

Our goal

To strengthen your organisation’s capacity to think clearly under pressure — and for that capacity to persist long after we have gone.

We work with the under-the-surface tensions that emerge when people, structures, strategy and practice collide in unexpected ways — and we stay with you, with empathy and humility, until you’re out of the swamp.

Who you’d work with

Social scientists, consultant/researchers, artists, psychologists and anthropologists, working alongside you.

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Dr. Eliat Aram

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Coreene Archer

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Dr. Thomas Spielhofer

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Milda Autukaitė

Meet the full team

Tell us what you’re grappling with

If you are navigating something difficult and want to explore whether the Tavistock Institute’s consultancy might help, we would like to hear from you.

If you'd rather speak to us, please call Fatima Kamaté on +44 (0)20 7417 0407