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Human Relations might be the one topic everyone cares about.

We’ve been actively exploring the subject since 1947 in our radical, artistic, questioning institution.

Professional development Certificate in Dynamics @ Board Level 2025

A certified programme comprising 4 × 2-day modules for all those working on or with Boards: Chairs of Boards, Board members, Executive Directors, trainers, evaluators, consultants, coaches and others working in board evaluation and governance development.

Psycho-social
Research: European Observatory for Active Labour Market Policies: EU-ALMPO
This Horizon Europe project will address labour and skills shortages across the EU through artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
Research & evaluation
Employment
Future of work
Consulting: Leadership development in an integrated care system
Guiding change with health and social care leaders in the UK
Consultancy
Health & social care
Leadership

How people relate to each other and the systems and contexts in which we live, how we grow in character, how we embrace learning and change, are questions that flicker around all points of world history. 

Address those questions with us:

Professional development | Research and evaluation | Consulting

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Lunchtime Talks The Uncanny, the Mystical and the Myth: Finding space for the irrational in leadership thinking

Noel McQuaid presents this Food for Thought Lunchtime Talk, 22nd January at 1pm

Professional development Discovery session for Deepening Creative Practice

Free discovery session to learn more about Deepening Creative Practice and contribute to the design of the programme for 2025. 

30 Jan 2025 or 18 Feb 2025.

Professional development Team Working: How to succeed

Online course: start anytime

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Arts and organisations

We are pioneering internationally recognised creative approaches to respond to organisational and societal challenges.

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From us come ever-emerging ideas and technologies, which are adopted internationally by people, groups, businesses and other organisations.

Research & Evaluation

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Evaluation of Samaritans Online Chat Service pilot
This evaluation explores the Samaritans Online Chat service pilot, to determine how well it meets the needs of children and young people.
Research & evaluation
Children & families
Mental health
Just Transition Scotland: Monitoring and Evaluation
We have created a Theory of Change for Scotland’s Just Transition so that disadvantaged groups may benefit from the low carbon transition.
Research & evaluation
Environment
Neurodiversity in the tech industry
Colt, Nokia, Samsung, and Vodafone took part in this global study, which suggests an urgent need for more equitable and inclusive workplaces
Research & evaluation
Mental health
Organisations

Our Professional Development programmes

Led by internationally recognised experts, our programmes equip you for life, leadership and transformation.

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Consulting services

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Consulting: Leadership development in an integrated care system
Guiding change with health and social care leaders in the UK
Consultancy
Health & social care
Leadership
Culture change with TIHR: consulting services
Working with the unseen and the slippery: leveraging organisational culture to enable commercial success
Consultancy
Leadership
Organisations
Artificial Intelligence consulting services: design your future with our Creative Digital Futures Lab
The Creative Digital Futures Lab brings together innovative creative practice with deep technical expertise in Human and AI systems integration.
Consultancy
Organisations
Young people

The Leicester Conference

Welcome to the 14-day experiential learning event that has been running since 1957, and provides space to reflect and contemplate on how you lead and follow in your organisation, your community — indeed, how you lead and follow in your life.

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International work

Research: European Observatory for Active Labour Market Policies: EU-ALMPO
This Horizon Europe project will address labour and skills shortages across the EU through artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
Research & evaluation
Employment
Future of work
The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in China
Extending Tavistock values, philosophy and practice into new environments.
Group relations

Lunchtime Talks Neurodiversity at work: learning from a global study on accessibility in the workplace

Inspired by the concept of biodiversity, neurodiversity is a concept that recognises neurological differences in individuals, including Autism, ADHD, dyslexia and Sensory Processing Disorder.

Social inclusion

Group Relations around the world

Group Relations Conferences are for anyone interested in developing and deepening their leadership strategy and organisational practice.

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The Tavistock Institute Archive

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Scrambling time and matter in sulphur
Encountering our archive materials through artistic practice-as-research
Research & evaluation
Arts & culture
Socio-technical
Learning the details: when honoring the past liberates the creativity in the present.
Antonio Sama relates how the archive inspired a new relationship with his mentor.
Professional Development
About us
Thought pieces
I felt like I was there
Working with the digital archives of the Leicester Conference, a post by Karen Kiss.
Research & evaluation
Unconscious
Group relations

Addressing sustainability and protecting the environment

From our early work on open systems and the socio-environmental, the Institute has strived to understand the rippling effect of actions taken by organisations on the systems they inhabit, and how, in dialogue, systems force organisations to change.

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