Notes on Contributors

TONY BERRY was at Manchester Business School from 1969 to 1995 as a research student, fellow, lecturer and senior lecturer. He directed MBA and doctoral programmes as well as many executive development programmes. He worked as a staff member of Tavistock Leicester conferences and for ten years was a Council member of the Tavistock Institute. He has had a varied industrial and academic career serving on the Council of BAM, a founder member of EDAMBA. Latterly he has led research at Sheffield Hallam and at Manchester Met.

C. JAMA ADAMS is a practising clinical psychologist and organisational consultant in New York. He is also Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of African American Studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

FRANCESCA CARDONA is an organisational consultant and coach. She has considerable experience in consulting to organisations in different contexts and cultures. She has taught on various management and leadership courses and she is currently a visiting tutor on the MA and Professional Doctorate ‘Consultation and the Organisation’ at University of East London and Tavistock and Portman Trust. She is a coach on a number of courses at the London Business School. She has substantial experience in international group relations conferences. Francesca has a particular interest in the area of individual and organisational transition.

THOMAS GILMORE is Vice President of CFAR and Senior Fellow in Wharton's Health Care Systems and in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. CFAR is a private consulting firm that works on strategy, change, and collaboration in private, public, and non-profit settings. He is the author of Making a Leadership Change: How Organizations and Leaders can Handle Leadership Transitions Successfully and numerous articles on transitions and change, including ‘The new boundaries of the “boundaryless” company’, which appeared in the Harvard Business Review. He is a founding member