AM 2024 Committee & Contact

Irena Izotova is an Executive &Team Coach, Organizational Consultant, Business Psychologist working with organizations in the systems psychodynamic approach. She works with executives, boards, senior officers and top management teams in international and Russian companies, and also consults business owners and start ups.
She is a lecturer and a supervisor on the Master’s Program “Psychoanalysis and Business Consulting”, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, and the President of the Association of Psychoanalytic Coaching and Business Consulting.

Irena is a psychoanalyst of Lacanian orientation with private practice.

I'm semi-retired but value very much my 10 year + association with ISPSO and the richness of conversations, presentations and arguments! I have a strong interest in how people think together in groups and teams as well as how we create groups that are impervious to opinions

Antoaneta Mateeva PhD is a professor in clinical social work MA, BA and postgraduate programs at the Department of Health and Social Work, New Bulgarian University and researcher at Know-How Center for Alternative Care for Children, NBU. Co-founder, group dynamic trainer and organisational consultant of Psychology of Groups Institute in Sofia. Co-founder and clinical supervisor at Right to Childhood Foundation. Board member of the Bulgarian Association for Supervision and member of the Ethical Committee of the European Association for Supervision ANSE. She holds a PhD in Psycho-Social Studies from the University of the West of England. Her dissertation is on "University education and the culture of social participation in Bulgaria". Member of ISPSO and ÖAGG.

Dr. Rose Redding Mersky has been an organisational development consultant to a wide variety of private, public, non-profit and professional organizations for over thirty years. Her many publications have focused primarily on the practice of consultation and the utilisation of socioanalytic methodologies in both organisational and research practice. She is a Distinguished Member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, and she served as its first female president. She is an honorary professor at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics in Moscow, where she teaches master classes. Her new book, The Social Dream-Drawing Workshop: A Handbook for Professionals has just been published by Routledge. She is an American citizen living in Germany.

Louisa Diana Brunner PhD, Leadership and Organisational Consultant and Coach | Advanced Practice Lead and Visiting Lecturer for the Professional Doctorate in Consultation and the Organisation at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust | Faculty Member of GEN (Global Education Network) and Fellow - Family Firm Institute | Founder and Board Member of PCCA (Partners for Confronting Collective Atrocities), an Honorary Member of the Nodo Group and a Member of ISPSO and OPUS | Publications and presentations at International Conferences | Recipient of the 2014 ISPSO Harold Bridger Memorial Award.

For the past 30 years, I have worked as a consultant to organizations with CFAR (a management consulting firm). During that time my focus has been in applying ethnographic skills to the study of, and intervention with, organizations. That interest led me to explore ways in which psychoanalysis and systems thinking complement ethnographic methods. This pursuit resulted in working first on the faculty of the William Alanson White program in Organizational Consultation and presentations at IPTAR and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI). In addition to consulting, I continue to enjoy teaching in programs at BPSI and in the Dynamics of Consulting program offered annually in New York. Along with my colleague, Barry Dornfeld, PhD, I wrote a book that describes ways in which culture and organizational change work in organizations (sometimes successfully and other times not). The book received an award from; Strategy, as a leading book on organizational culture. Currently I am doing some consulting work and some teaching and enjoying working on making the 2019 Annual Meeting in New York City as successful as it can possibly be. List of Publications:,The Moment You Can't Ignore, co-authored with Barry Dornfeld, PhD. Public Affairs Press, 2015. Building and Sustaining Organizational Change (with Larry Hirschhorn) CFAR- unpublished manuscript, 1994. Groups, Knowledge Workers and the Production of Documents (with Larry Hirschhorn) CFAR -unpublished, 1991 The Boundaryless Organization (with Tom Gilmore and Larry Hirschhorn) Healthcare Forum Journal, July-August, 1994

Susan Long is a Melbourne based organisational consultant and executive coach. Previously Professor of Creative and Sustainable Organisation at RMIT University, she is now a Professor and Research Lead at the National Institute for Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA) where she now co-leads their PhD program, and a coach and consultant in private practice.

I am an organizational consultant who applies a systems-psychodynamic approach to organizations and team experiences. I pay attention to what goes on underneath the surface of group life. I create spaces and time for people and groups to think, and as such enable people and organizations to manage emotions and relationships, to create meaning and understanding for the other and to see new opportunities for a meaningful and creative work environment where people have the best possibilities to deliver their best. I am also an accredited Analytic Network Coach, a Group Relations Consultant, and a practitioner/host of Social Dreaming.

Anna Makhova (Reiche) Executive and Team Coach, Organizational and a Leadership Consultant. System psychodynamic approach. Master of Psychology - Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytical Business Consulting (HSE - Russia) * Over 5 years working experience in team/organizational consulting and psychodymanic coaching. * Over 10 years working experience on leading positions with executives and teams, project development. Field of interests: - Group dynamics and team interaction, tracking of team/project changes - Team transformation and communication (result oriented) - Conflict management - Executive and leadership coaching - Emotional intellect and leadership development, tracking of personal crisices, changes and transformation - Finding motivation, calling and creativity - Career adaptation and support for career changes

Aaron J. Nurick, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Management and Psychology at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he served as a member of the faculty for 44 years. He received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He holds a postdoctoral certificate from the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy. Dr. Nurick's teaching and scholarship have been devoted to the application of psychology to management and organizations. His published work includes The Good Enough Manager: The Making of a GEM (Routledge) and scholarly articles in Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Journal of Management Inquiry, Human Relations, and Human Resource Management. 

E-xecutive and Team coach, organizational consultant, business psychologist. Various professional experience in different business sectors, including such as educational, manufacturing, foreign economic trading and IT sectors, sales of consulting services and organization of large-scale events. At present, works with the organisations and its' leadership teams as an HR expert and psychodynamic consultant. Board Member of the Association of Psychoanalytic Coaching and Business Consulting.

Group Dynamics Trainer, Senior Lecturer in English, with translation expertise in social work, sociometry, psychodrama, object relations theory, and political studies.