President@ispso.net

Alexandra Gerny is an experienced coach and team coach based in Amsterdam. She works independently with various professional groups, mostly lawyers, doctors, academic researchers and professionals in the creative and cultural field. She is specialized in topics related to stress and burn-out, leadership and career issues. Additionally, she is a supervisor for coaches. She grew up and lived in Switzerland, until she moved to the Netherlands in 2004. She worked internationally as an art historian, before she re-trained as a systems-psychodynamic coach and consultant at Utrecht University, and as a supervisor at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. Alexandra is president of the systems-psychodynamic Alumni Association AVCCC.

President-Elect@ispso.net

Dr Brigid Nossal is a founder and senior advisor of the National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA). For the past 20 years, she has combined consulting and coaching with teaching, supervision and research. Brigid's passion is for the positive contribution to organisations and work cultures that applied systems psychodynamics and the psychoanalytic study of organisations can make. As a co-founder and Executive of NIODA since 2010, she has had the experience of leading and managing an organisation from the inside.  She knows something of what it takes to 'walk the talk' of applied systems psychodynamics. Brigid has been an active practitioner of Group Relations Conferences (GRCs). She has directed two conferences in Australia and has worked on staff of GRCs in the UK, India and China. ISPSO has been Brigid's professional 'home' since 2004. She was previously a member of the Board from 2016 - 2019. She has also been a regular contributor of papers at ISPSO’s annual symposia.

Past-President@ispso.net

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.  She 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

She is the President of the Association of Psychoanalytic Coaching and Business Consulting.

Irena is a psychoanalyst of Lacanian orientation with private practice.

Treasurer@ispso.net

Fiona Martin is a Melbourne based Socioanalytic consultant and coach, researcher, educator and author. Her approach is grounded on the psychoanalytic study of organisations. Fiona also has experience overseeing governance, financial and risk management.

Fiona has over 25 years’ experience in leadership and organisational development change management with strong learning and development capabilities across private enterprise, government, emergency management, and education sectors. She supports the building of multi-stakeholder relations to enable inter-organisational and interdisciplinary initiatives. Fiona’s research interests are the impact of disruptive environments including climate change upon organisations and barriers and enablers to research utilisation. Fiona has authored and co-authored academic papers and been published in scholarly journals.

Fiona holds a Master in leadership and Management (Organizational Dynamics) from NIODA. She is an accredited Analytic Network Coach, practices Organizational Role Analysis, is a member of the Group Relations Australia (GRA) Directorate, Chair of the Socioanalysis Journal Management Committee, a member of the Socioanalysis Editorial Board and Co-convenor of an ISPSO Writing Group. She is a past NIODA Symposium committee member, a member of OPUS, the New York Centre, and ISPSO and the Convenor of the Bridger Award.

Admin-Director@ispso.net

Dr Rica Viljoen is an Organisational Development and Change specialist, Jungian coach and psycho-analytically informed consultant. She consults internationally on executive and board level; mostly on multicultural-dynamics, inclusivity, leadership maturity, group dynamics and culture. Rica is associated with the Da Vinci Institute and Regenesys University and is actively involved in academic supervision, mostly on doctorate level. She is internationally acknowledged as a post merger-and-acquisition expert and a thought leader on adaptive capability of individuals, groups, organizations and the societies in which they function. She weaves together insights gained from academia, as executive and as systems-psychodynamic
practitioner into a dynamic manner to optimize the systems in which she operates. She is widely published and continues to further her life’s purpose - to support leaders in organizations to embody their authentic voice.

Ajeet.Mathur@ispso.net

Prof. Dr. Ajeet Mathur has responsibility for Inter-organisational collaborations of ISPSO. He consults to leaders and their teams on strategy, transformative leadership, and creative collaboration for change management. He is Professor Emeritus, NDIM and has been Professor at IIMs Ahmedabad and Calcutta, and the EU-Tempus Professor of European Integration and Internationalisation. He received his Ph.D. Degree from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and has held visiting academic appointments at K.U.Leuven, University of California at Berkeley, Aalto University and Tampere University, among others. He chaired the Centre for Gender Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity for five years. His publications include more than thirty books and over one hundred and sixty papers in scientific journals and anthologies. He is one of the authors of the International Encyclopaedia of Laws. He is on the Staff of Group Relations Conferences since 1983 and has directed Group Relations Conferences in Europe and India. He served as Director and CEO of the Institute of Applied Manpower Research with the rank of Secretary to the Government of India. He has served on the Board of Directors with Corporates in India and Europe and with the School of Inter-disciplinary Studies, IGNOU. He is an Affiliate Life Member of the Indian Psycho-analytic Society and an accredited Yoga Shikshak and Karma Sannyasin of the Bihar School of Yoga. He is recipient of several national and international honours and awards. 

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Moritz Senarclens de Grancy, PhD, is a distinguished psychoanalyst, supervisor, and senior leader advisor, with a comprehensive background in law, art history, and cultural studies. Dr Senarclens de Grancy is an expert consultant for group relations conferences following the Tavistock model and served as the Chair of the ISPSO Annual Meeting Berlin Conference in 2021.
He earned his doctorate with a focus on the role of metaphor in Freud's work, published by Psychosozial-Verlag in 2015. His extensive training in psychoanalysis and group dynamics was conducted in both Germany and England, reflecting a broad and international approach to his professional development. Dr Senarclens de Grancy has been an active member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations (ISPSO) since 2016. His contributions to the field include the recent publication of the first German-language introduction to the Social Dream Matrix, co-authored with Ullrich Beumer and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in 2023. Dr Senarclens de Grancy has also explored the depths of human desire in his essay ‘Der heißeste Wunsch der Menschheit,’ published by Matthes & Seitz Berlin in 2022. This work delves into the profound and often enigmatic nature of human longing and its implications within a psychoanalytic framework.
With a blend of academic rigor and practical expertise, Dr Senarclens de Grancy continues to influence the psychoanalytic community and advance the study of organizations through his work and leadership.

niels.vansteenbergen@ispso.net

Niels van Steenbergen is from the Netherlands and is an educator, consultant and executive coach. His company is an agency for leadership development and offers various professional development programs and consultancy services. He previously served as a lecturer and course leader at the University of Utrecht. He studied Organizational Psychology at the University of Utrecht. His training, coaching and consulting work is deeply influenced by two professional development programs; IAS International, Netherlands (two years) and Inscape international, Germany (two years). He attended several working conferences, seminars, and workshops at the Grubb Institute, Tavistock Consultancy Service and Group Relations Nederland. He is interested in the questions why things happen (or do not happen) the way they do. Special interests include leadership, the dark side of organizations , and conflict, sex & gender issues within organizations. Niels develops, coordinates and executes international leadership courses in Dutch, English and German for academics, tax professionals and people from developing countries .

Pearl.Tran@ispso.net

Pearl Tran was first trained to be a diplomat in Hanoi, Vietnam. She later re-trained in Business Administration (Henley) and spent 25 years in managing business for European manufacturers in Asia, founding companies, creating premium brands. Curious to know why people do what they do, she engaged in system-psychodynamic study, coaching, consulting at group, organisation, and board level (INSEAD, Tavistock Institute of Human relations, Cambridge, Ashridge). Pearl lives in London and pursues a professional doctorate at Tavistock Portman on consulting and organisation.

Jeremy.Vine@ispso.net

Jeremy Vine is a workplace consultant to global media companies, who utilises a systems-psychodynamic perspective. He works with executives, senior leadership teams, HRs and employees at all levels. Jeremy’s broad experience includes change management, employer-employee relations and workplace trauma. He previously worked for more than 30 years in the media industry as a journalist and editor in Britain with The Times, The Sunday Times and The Independent, and in Thailand with The Bangkok Post. Jeremy has an MA in Psychodynamic and Systemic Approaches to Consulting and Leading in Organisations (Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex); a BSc (Hons) in Psychology; and counselling diplomas from Birkbeck, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

james.walker@ispso.net

James Walker
After teaching in Melbourne, James taught at the University of Southern California medical campus, and later at the American University Graduate School of Business in Washington DC. He lectured on strategy, statistics, and psychology, and received the university teaching and research award related to a National Institutes of Mental Health program. At the same time, practising as a consultant, coach, and therapist. This work has continued in Australia.

James consulting practice has focussed on resolution of strategic and project difficulties and impasses, with clients including the World Bank, IMF, American and Australian governments, and other institutions. He was appointed to the coaching panel of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. James has presented papers and workshops for ISPSO and other professional societies and universities.