Notes on Contributors

David Armstrong is an organisational consultant, associate consultant at Tavistock Consulting, and a board member of the Social Dreaming International Network (SDiN). Email: david.pepys@gmail.com

Irina Brazhnikova holds degrees in MA Psychology (HSE, Moscow, ) and MA Mathematics (M.V. Lomonosov MSU) and works as a psychodynamic coach and business consultant with private and corporate clients. Irina's previous professional experience includes change manager's and certified Lean&SixSigma project manager's roles at Raiffesenbank Russia and Rosbank (Société Générale S.A.). Irina is also a psychoanalysis and business consulting Master's programme supervisor at the HSE. She has regularly taken part in Group Relations Conferences since 2021. Irina is a member of ISPSO, a member of the ethic committee and a certified professional business coach of the APCBC (Moscow). Email: irina.a.brazhnikova@gmail.com

Halina Brunning is a chartered clinical psychologist, freelance organisational consultant, and executive coach. She has published extensively on clinical and organisational issues and has edited Executive Coaching: SystemsPsychodynamic Perspective . Halina conceived the idea of a series of five books that examined the contemporary world through a psychoanalytic lens. This approach continued in a series of further books, lately, co-written with Olya Khaleelee, Danse Macabre and Other Stories: : A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Global Dynamics , The Covid Trail: Psychodynamic Explorations , and Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories . Email:

Rachel Gibbons is a consultant psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and group analyst working independently. She is chair of the working group on the impact of suicide and homicide on clinicians and vice-chair of the faculty of medical psychotherapy at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, UK. Email:

Larry Hirschhorn is a founder of CFAR, a management consulting company in Philadelphia.