ISPSO ANNUAL MEETING 2027

DDr. Alexander Schall is a psychoanalyst, lawyer, and author with more than 30 years of international leadership experience in banking and financial services. His work focuses on conflict resolution, negotiation, leadership, and the unconscious dynamics that influence decision-making in individuals, organizations, and institutions.

Combining psychoanalytic expertise with extensive executive and legal experience, he works at the intersection of psychoanalysis, business, law, and organizational life. He is author of the following publications: “Das Unbewusste im Rechtsstreit (The Unconscious in Legal Disputes).
Co-author of Erfolgshunger – Das Streben nach Anerkennung (Success Hunger – The Quest for Recognition).

Elisabeth Prchla is a systems psychodynamic organisational consultant, executive coach, and founder of Seeds & Summits, a consulting practice dedicated to supporting leaders and organisations through complexity, uncertainty, and transformation. Her work integrates systems psychodynamics, adaptive leadership, and organisational consulting to help executives and leadership teams address both the visible and unconscious dynamics that shape organisational life.

Prior to establishing Seeds & Summits, Elisabeth spent more than twenty years in international leadership roles within the biopharmaceutical and life sciences industry. She held senior executive and country leadership positions across Europe before serving as Global Head of Talent for a DAX 40 company, where she led global leadership, talent, and organisational transformation initiatives. This combination of executive experience and consulting practice enables her to bridge business realities with deep psychological insight.

Elisabeth holds a PhD in Biochemistry, an MBA, and the Executive Master in Change (EMC) from INSEAD, where she graduated with Distinction. Based in Vienna, Elisabeth works internationally with senior leaders, executive teams, and organisations seeking to develop leadership that is reflective, adaptive, and capable of engaging with the complexity of today's organisational challenges.

Rachel Ellison MBE is a former BBC news reporter and international development aid director. Rachel trained as an Executive Leadership Coach working with global leaders in more than 45 different tribes, nations and organisational systems. Her first leadership position was in a category 1 war zone. Rachel was awarded an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II ‘for the promotion of human rights and the self-empowerment of women in Afghanistan’. She has expert knowledge of international and inter-cultural leadership across industry and the public sector. Her book: Global Leadership & Coaching – flourishing under intense pressure at work [Routledge] shares real leader’s choices and dilemmas in a supermarket context, a refugee camp and in elite high performance sport.

Peter Boback, Executive Coach, Leadership Development Expert.  

Peters professional experience spans two decades of leadership development and organizational consulting in fast moving and globally operating high tech companies.

After ten years with Hewlett-Packard in various leadership development roles Peter joined SAP in 2001 to shape SAP’s Global Executive Development Programs. Beginning of 2016 he left the corporate world to create his own executive coaching practise.

Peter holds the INSEAD Executive Master’s degree in Consulting and Coaching for Change. He has trained as an OD and Change Consultant (Trigon, Vienna and ISB in Wiesloch, Germany). His academic background is clinical and organizational psychology (Diplompsychologe) that he studied in Heidelberg and Paris.

Of German nationality, Peter has been studying, living and working in Southern Germany, Paris, France and Geneva, Switzerland. He thrives in a multicultural environment and is fluent in German, French and English. Beyond work, he follows his passion for music and visual arts, literature, philosophy and fine wines.

Dipl.-Ing. Michael Hauger (M.S.)
I am particularly interested in (small) team dynamics driven by the individual and team unconscious. I combine many years of experience in complex organisations undergoing change with a comprehensive understanding of business and leadership experience gained over more than 25 years in senior and executive roles in corporate offices, public affairs and communications departments of global companies and organisations. Today, I am passionately working with clients ranging from executive and senior management teams in the corporate sector to long-established and upcoming professional chamber music ensembles.

I graduated from the INSEAD Executive Master in Change (EMC) programme with distinction and hold a degree in Aerospace Engineering (University of Stuttgart) as well as a Controller’s Diploma. I also completed the INSEAD In-Board Programme for non-executive directors. I am an ICF-certified Integral Development Coach and Advanced Team Effectiveness Coach. In 2022, I founded the consultancy firm AURES CORDIS (lat: “ears of the heart”) located at the wonderful place of powerful energy that is Ehrwald/Austria.

Within the ISPSO AM 2027 organising committee I am the force in the background encouraging to resist unaffordable desires: I am taking care of financial planning and controlling with the primary task of breaking even for ISPSO – at the very least.

Moritz Senarclens de Grancy works in Berlin as a psychoanalyst, supervisor, couples therapist, and consultant. He earned his doctorate at the Seminar for Cultural Studies at Humboldt University Berlin with a study on Freud's epistemics, supported by a doctoral fellowship from the Dr. Lotte Köhler Foundation.

His work brings together clinical psychoanalysis and system-psychodynamically oriented consulting, with a particular interest in the places where institutional mandates, professional roles, and unconscious dynamics intersect. He works as a director and staff member in group relations conferences and has many years of experience consulting to and supervising psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic training institutes, social-sector organizations, and organisations in the healthcare field. He also teaches a practical seminar at the Evangelisches Zentralinstitut für Familienberatung (EZI) in Berlin on psychoanalytic supervision in relationship-intensive professions, working with the tension between closeness and professional function.

His publications include Der heißeste Wunsch der Menschheit (2021), Einführung in die Arbeit mit der Sozialen Traummatrix (2023, with Ullrich Beumer), and Arbeitsplätze sind Beziehungsplätze (2025). His latest book, Psychoanalyse und Management: Mehr Freud für Führungskräfte (2026), is forthcoming with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Moritz has been a member of the ISPSO Board of Directors since 2024, where he is responsible for events and the community blog. He chaired the ISPSO Annual Meeting 2021 in Berlin and currently serves as a staff member chairing the AM27 Advisory Board.

Erik Van de Loo is a clinical psychologist, PhD in Social Sciences at Leiden University (1987), psychotherapist, psychoanalyst (member of the International Psychoanalytical Association) and obtained a Master’s in Work and Organization Health (1998).

He has worked as an officer-clinical psychologist in the Royal Dutch Army (1981-1984), as a senior lecturer at the department of clinical and health psychology at Leiden University (1984-1991) as a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice. He has set up psychological counseling services for organizations and has been advisor for health and safety in organizations.

He is Affiliate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at INSEAD, where he is since 2001 Co-Founder and Program Co-Director of “The Executive Master in Change. Transforming self and organisations”. One of INSEADs degree programmes, both in Singapore and Fontainebleau. He also held Professorships at Tias School for Business and Society, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, UniRazak University in Kuala Lumpur and the Free University Amsterdam.

He is a partner of Phyleon Leadership & Governance, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He helps to create reflective space for boards, leaders and leadership teams to become more effective in the interrelated change and transformational processes on individual, team and organizational level. One of his fields of interests and expertise is coaching multigenerational family business families.

His actual research focus is on unconscious phantasy patterns shaping leader behavior, the transgenerational impact of collective trauma on leaders and professionals and unconscious dynamics in boards.

Jeffrey Axelbank, Psy.D. is a psychologist in Highland Park, New Jersey working as both an organizational consultant and psychotherapist.  His consulting work focuses on whole system interventions addressing issues such as strategic planning involving all stakeholder groups, conflict resolution, developing high performing teams, and burnout/turnover/morale.  His clinical work specializes in treating chronic pain and other mind-body disorders, and group therapy.  He served on the ISPSO Board for six years, including four years as treasurer.