This paper outlines a new theoretical and methodology for consulting to organisations, based on the concept of integrating paternal containment and the paternal metaphor with the classic Tavistock consultation methodology of working with maternal containment. The aim is to overcome some of the challenges that arise from utilising clinical psychoanalytic theory and methods, in organisational settings. Having described how change agents (consultants, coaches, leaders) can utilise this theory and method to work in organisations, the paper finishes with a reflection on how this framework can help model leadership dynamics in the wider social field. This is in particular relation to challenging both soft and hard authoritarian leadership approaches in the fast changing globalised-networked society.