Notes on Contributors

Seth Allcorn, PhD, MBA is currently a Professor of Professional Practice, Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri and an associate of the Center for the Study of Organizational Change, University of Missouri. He is the former Vice President for Business and Finance at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. Dr Allcorn has more than twenty years of experience working with physicians, hospitals, and academic medical centers. He has served as a financial and administrative assistant dean at the Texas Tech School of Medicine and associate dean for the Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola-Chicago. He has also managed two departments of internal medicine for the University of Missouri-Columbia and University of Rochester. He has worked for more than twenty years as a part-time and full-time organisational consultant specialising in the management of change, strategic planning, and organisational restructuring. Dr Allcorn is extensively published. He is the author or coauthor of a dozen books, a half a dozen chapters, and over seventy-five papers that have appeared in scholarly and practitioner journals.

Halina Brunning is a chartered clinical psychologist, freelance organisational consultant, and accredited executive coach. She has published extensively on clinical and organisational issues, edited several books for Karnac Books including Executive Coaching: Systems—Psychodynamic Perspective , which was translated into Italian in 2009 as La Matutenzione del Capo. She conceived of and edited a trilogy of books that analyse the contemporary world through a psychoanalytic lens, the titles include: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Turbulent World, co-edited with Mario Perini , Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Changing World , and Psychoanalytic Essays on Power and Vulnerability . She conducted training events on systems-psychodynamic coaching in Europe and the UK for the HEC, Il Nodo, Rasztow, Prorozvoyovo, the iCoach Academy, and other organis