Notes on Contributors

Seth Allcorn, PhD, MBA 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 co-author of a dozen books, a half a dozen chapters, and over seventy-five papers that have appeared in scholarly and practitioner journals. He is a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organization.

David N. Berg, PhD, is an organisational psychologist and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine.

Francesca Cardona is a coach and organisational consultant with considerable experience in consulting to teams in a variety of organisational and cultural contexts facing issues of change and transition, merger and integration, and conflict. She provides coaching to senior managers from a broad range of organisations. She also coaches senior managers from global organisations in London Business School programmes. She has taught on various management and leadership courses and is currently a visiting tutor on the MA and Professional Doctorate “Consultation and the Organisation” at the University of Essex, and Tavistock and Portman Trust. She has also provided training and consultancy in international contexts and she has extensive experience in international group relations conferences. Francesca's particular interest is in the area