Notes on Contributors

GILLES AMADO has a PhD in clinical psychology, an Msc in Management, and is a Professor of Organizational Psychology at HEC School of Management, Paris. He is a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO), and of the International Center for Psychosociological Research, Training and Intervention (CIRFIP), and a member of the French Society for Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy (SFPPG). He is the chief editor of the Nouvelle Revue de Psychosociologie and the author of numerous articles and books in the areas of group dynamics, leadership, and organizational change. A specialist in the “transitional” approach to change, he co-edited two books in this area, The Transitional Approach to Change (with A. Ambrose), and The Transitional Approach in Action (with L. Vansina), and authored Leaders in Transition (with R. Elsner), all three published by Karnac Books. He is conducting action-research and consultation internationally in public and private sectors' organizations.

ELISHA DAVAR is a course developer, teacher and supervisor of the psychodynamic training course ‘Counselling, Coaching and Consulting’ at The Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University. He was a founder member of Group Relations Netherlands. He has a particular interest in the application of psychoanalytic thinking to the psychosocial ‘interface’, the transitional surface where the person, their different social roles and society intersect. He also works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and has a private practice in Amsterdam.

AMY L. FRAHER, EdD is Chief Pilot and founding Director, International Team Training Center, San Diego Miramar College. A retired US navy commander, naval aviator and former United Airlines pilot, she is Principal Consultant at Paradox and Company. Her third book, Crisis Management in High-Risk Fields, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.

ZACHARY GABRIEL GREEN is a senior scholar at the Academy of Leadership, Un