Conference | Tavistock Institute of Human Relations

Founded in London in 1947, we explore human behaviour to help people and organisations work better together.

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Professional Development

Learning rooted in systems psychodynamics, from board-level leadership to coaching & supervision

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Helping leaders and teams work with the under-the-surface dynamics of organisational life

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Research & Evaluation

Our social research and evaluation teams combine rigour with depth to examine what’s happening in human systems

How people relate to each other and the systems and contexts in which we live, how we embrace learning and change, are the questions we work with: questions that flicker around all points of world history.

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Workshop The role of food clubs in tackling food insecurity

An interactive workshop exploring our evaluation of the Nourish the Nation programme

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Lunchtime Talks Two Traditions, One Living System: NTL and Tavistock on group, authority and change

Lunchtime Talk with Dr Lennox Joseph, consultant, author & NTL Institute for Applied Behavioural Science practitioner

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Lunchtime Talks Waiting for sense to break through: the power of ‘generative uncertainty’ in a polarised world

Lunchtime talk with Dr Nicola Redhouse, Lecturer in Publishing and Editing at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia.

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Pioneering thinking since 1947 that's shaped leadership development, organisational development, coaching, healthcare, education and public policy all over the world

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Systems Psychodynamics

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Group Relations

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Socio-Technical Systems

Research & Evaluation

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Four key conditions that make young people’s employment services successful

Our research in Europe over the years tells us what services for NEET young people should look like

Research & evaluation

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Testing AI tools to help address labour and skills shortages in Europe

As evaluation partner for this Horizon Europe project, we will focus on how AI tools are designed, tested and applied

Research & evaluation

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New framework to help measure the Just Transition in Scotland

A blueprint for the achievement of equitable outcomes during the low-carbon transition

Research & evaluation

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Arts and organisations

We are pioneering internationally recognised creative approaches to respond to organisational and societal challenges.

Consultancy

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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

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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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The Leicester Conference

The 14-day experiential learning event for reflection, leading & following, within a global cohort.

Every year since 1957.

Transforming systems around the world

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Improving the flexibility of European learning systems

Work with CEDEFOP to make learning outcomes transferable, to improve the employability of people in the EU

Research & evaluation

Education & training

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The Tavistock Institute in China

Extending Tavistock values, philosophy and practice into new environments.

Group relations

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Reducing marginalisation amongst young people

There are effective ways of supporting children and young people to stay in education and employment

Research & evaluation

Education & training

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Addressing sustainability and protecting the environment

From our early work on open systems and the socio-environmental, to today’s efforts to support leaders and shape adaptations to ecological crisis