The Eric Miller Memorial Lecture 2012: Terms of Engagement: Looking Backwards and Forwards at the Tavistock Enterprise1

Associate consultant at Tavistock Consulting. From 1959-1967 he was a junior project officer at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, working on action research assignments with Eric Trist, Hugh Murray, and Eric Miller. After a ten year stint as senior research fellow at Chelsea College, University of London, he joined the staff of The Grubb Institute of Behavioural Studies, working in action research, group relations, and organisational consultancy. In 1994 he returned to the Tavistock, on the founding of a dedicated consultancy service within the Tavistock Clinic. He has worked extensively as a consultant with private, public, and voluntary organisations, both in the UK and abroad and has been actively involved in the development of Group Relations over many years. He is the author of Organization In the Mind: Psychoanalysis, Group Relations and Organizational Consultancy, a collection of occasional papers, edited by Robert French and published by Karnac in 2005.