Elisabet Engellau is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Management at INSEAD and a founding partner of the Kets de Vries Institute. She specializes in one-on-one executive coaching, leadership development, cross-cultural management, and team building. Her professional activities are focused on the dynamics of corporate transformation and change. In her work with individuals and teams in organizations all over the world, she combines her long-term interest in creativity with a clinical approach to human resource management. She has produced and directed video films for management education and has been involved in developing online feedback instruments. She is the co- author of Doing an Alexander: Lessons on Leadership by a Master Conqueror (2004) and contributing author to Conversations in Leadership: South African Perspectives (2004), Coach and Couch (2006) and the Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, Harvard University Press (2009).

James Krantz is an organizational consultant and research from New York City, whose principal interest is in the unconscious background to work and organizational life; the impact of emerging trends on the exercise of leadership and authority; and the socio-technical dimensions of new forms of work organization. He is the Managing Principal of Worklab, a consulting firm that focuses on strategy implementation, leadership development, and helping organizations confront the need for change.

Jim is a member and past president of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO): a Fellow of the A.K. Rice Institute; member of OPUS; and former Director of the Center for Socio-Analytic Studies at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Teaching and Research (IPTAR). He Chairs the editorial management committee of the Journal of Social and Organisationsal Dynamics (OPUS) and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and Socio-Analysis.

Dr Thibault de Swarte was born in Neuilly sur Seine, near Paris, France, in 1955. He holds a doctorate and a second thesis ("HDR") in management science. His psychoanalyst was Dr Gérard Bazalgette (1978-1986), former Chairman of the Quatrième Groupe. He is an associate professor at IMT Atlantique, Rennes, France. He is also deputy director of the LASCO idea lab at IMT, working in particular on collective action and the emergence of meaning in the digital age. He is also scientific director of the French academic journal Psychanalyse & Management. He has been a member of ISPSO for about twenty years. He seeks to apply Lacanian concepts such as the graph of desire to the field of organizations and, more generally, to contribute to the construction of a link between psychoanalysis and management. A list of his publications and numerous texts (in French and English) can be found at https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/thibault-de-swarte.

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 and can be contacted at: rose.mersky@dream-drawing.com