tavistock consultancy service - understanding people. optimising performance.

Judith Bell   BA, DPsych. DipPsych. AFBPsS. CPsychol.

Judith is the Director of the Tavistock Consultancy Service.   

She works as an executive coach and an organisational consultant and her clients represent a diverse range of corporate, public sector and not-for-profit organisations including FMCG companies, financial services, media, IT, health, education and social services and the charity sector. Before taking up the Director role at TCS Judith held the Portfolio for Executive Coaching and developed the TCS programme of training in Executive Coaching, which has received the Quality Award of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.    

Judith’s coaching practise has grown through client recommendation and together with colleagues at TCS offers a first rate, highly reputed coaching service. She is passionate about the work particularly in helping individuals and teams to foster and develop their creativity. Judith is trained in the MBTI and has a Doctorate degree in Psychology; her doctorate thesis was on the use of projective assessment – a free response measure of personality and she brings this expertise to her coaching clients. Judith has considerable experience as consultant and facilitator to groups and teams and as a teacher and trainer. She is co-director of a Professional Doctorate programme in Consulting to Organisations.  This programme facilitates new and innovative research into consultancy, management, coaching, team development and relationships at work.  

Deirdre Moylan   BA MA  DipPsych, TQAP, MInstPsychoanal.

Deirdre is a Principal Consultant with TCS.  

She has extensive experience of working with senior leaders and top teams. Deirdre is a Psychologist and uses her knowledge of individual and group psychodynamics to help people work together, to understand what interferes with creativity and may be getting in the way of achievement.   Her clients are drawn from private, public and independent sector organisations, including, finance, health, manufacturing, charities and education.

Deirdre is particularly interested in and experienced at enabling disparate individuals to come together as a team, maintaining motivation in teams in the context of continuous change and helping teams to truly engage with each rather than simply working alongside one another.  She keeps an organisational focus in her work, helping clients work creatively with the tension between individual and organisational needs.   

Deirdre is an experienced trainer in the field; she directs an MA programme on Consultation and is co-director of a Professional Doctorate programme in Consulting to Organisations.  Her international experience includes lectures and seminars abroad as an invited speaker.  Deirdre is particularly interested in and experienced in designing and directing intensive training courses devised to enhance authority and leadership skills, and a capacity for team working. One focus is on understanding the impact of both conscious and unconscious choices.  

Deirdre works to ensure participants discover the difference between leadership by title and genuine leadership which may be taken up by all members of a well-functioning group depending on task and immediate needs. There is parallel learning about “followership”: working as a team member rather than fighting for the “top” position (which paradoxically facilitates promotion).  She coaches individuals or works with small or large teams or a whole organisation.  Her work includes events designed to elucidate the complexities of inter-group functioning and the importance of collaboration as well as the pleasures of competition. 

David Armstrong   BA (Oxon); MA (Cantab)

David is a Principal Consultant with TCS.

David has many years of experience in the field of executive coaching. He developed a method of coaching for Chief Executives, senior managers and professionals (Organisational Role Analysis) on which he has written and published widely. He has coached senior leaders at executive and board level across a wide range of public and private sector organisations and has developed programmes for senior managers based on methods of experiential learning. His clients include executives and senior teams in investment banking, information technology, pharmaceuticals, management consultancy, aircraft manufacture, the nuclear industry, NHS Trusts and criminal justice agencies.  Assignments cover a wide range of interventions: executive coaching, top team development, facilitation, and experiential workshops. Prior to joining TCS David worked in action research, looking at the impact of automated technologies on work organisation and management innovation.  He then joined the staff of the Grubb Institute of Behavioural Studies, as a consultant and later a director.   

His approach to consultancy draws on systemic and psychoanalytic thinking, while seeking to keep the focus on the clients’ experience of their organisation and the dilemmas, tensions, and challenges presented to them in their role(s). Particular current interests are in the management of complexity and the value of emotional experience as a source of organisational intelligence.

Julian Lousada   MSc, CQSW, MInstPsychoanal.

Julian is a Principal Consultant with TCS.

He works as a senior executive coach and organisational consultant and as a teacher and trainer in the field. His experience of coaching individuals and teams has been at executive and board level with a wide variety of corporate and public sector organisations. Before joining TCS Julian held a number of senior management posts at Director level and led his organisation through a period of very considerable change, introducing an entrepreneurial stance to public sector service delivery.  

Julian has worked extensively with groups and organisations in Europe and in America on the theme of innovation and change he has a particular interest in the manifestation of resistance to change. Julian believes that successful management needs to develop the capacity to learn about the ‘outside world’ and about what is taking place within the organisation or team. In his work with managers, organisations or teams  he tries to demonstrate the organisational consequence when there is a lack of congruence between these two ‘sites’ of learning. In the public and educational settings of which Julian has considerable experience he has become interested in the management and identification of stress. More recently some of this learning has been applied to the private sector where stress or burnout can be very costly.

Aideen Lucey

Aideen is a Principal Consultant and Portfolio Director of Development Programmes with TCS.

She specializes in leadership, team development and change management. She is a visiting tutor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust for the MA, Consultation and the Organisation: Psychoanalytic Approaches and a visiting consultant at IMD and Copenhagen Business Schools.

Sarah Miller   Bmus, MBA, MA

Sarah is a Principal Consultant with TCS.   

She works as an executive coach and an organisational consultant and her clients span across all sectors – corporate, public and not for profit. In addition to her work within public sector organisations in the fields of health, social care, education and criminal justice, Sarah works with senior executives working at the cutting edge of leading international organisations and is a visiting consultant on psychodynamic leadership development programmes at IMD business school in Lausanne and is also a visiting tutor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust for the MA, Working with Groups. Within the Tavistock Consultancy Service, Sarah manages the Executive Coaching Portfolio and has together with Judith Bell, developed the TCS Executive Coaching Training Programme which has been accredited by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.

She has also developed a Team Coaching Training Programme for OD consultants working with teams so that they are better able to work with organisational dynamics that can have an impact on team effectiveness.  Prior to joining the TCS Sarah worked as a general manager for over 12 years and in this role had responsibility for designing and leading high profile projects and change management programmes. She is committed to helping individuals and teams to grow and thrive in the complex environments in which they operate and does this through the provision of innovative and thought provoking programmes that aim to address the human dimension of organisational life and build powerful partnerships and effective teams. 

Sarah is trained in MBTI step I and II as well as Profilor – a 360 degree feedback tool. She has a several publications to her name and has presented at a number of international conferences.

We have associates trained in the Tavistock systems psychodynamic approach based both in the UK and also internationally, including those who can work in languages other than English.