Tavistock Institute of Human Relations

Founded in London in 1947, we explore human behaviour to help people and organisations work better together.

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Professional Development

Learning rooted in systems psychodynamics, from board-level leadership to coaching & supervision

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Consultancy

Helping leaders and teams work with the under-the-surface dynamics of organisational life

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Research & Evaluation

Our social research and evaluation teams combine rigour with depth to examine what’s happening in human systems

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

What's on

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Discovery Discovery Session - Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change (P3C)

Theory and practice for organisational consulting and change: a discovery session for those interested in P3C

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Lunchtime Talks Religion and spirituality in organisations: Lunchtime Talk with Mark Argent, psychotherapist and consultant

Why does religion and spirituality tend to disappear in day to day organisational life and what effect does this have?

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Professional development Leadership and Presence: find your natural authority

Find meaning and become more authentic, using the Whole Self as Instrument at this in-person two-day workshop

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Foundational thinking that's shaped management and leadership, organisational development, business education and public policy all over the world.

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Systems Psychodynamics

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Group Relations

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Socio-Technical Systems

Research & Evaluation

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Four key conditions that make young people’s employment services successful

Our research in Europe over the years tells us what services for NEET young people should look like

Research & evaluation

Employment

Young people

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Testing AI tools to help address labour and skills shortages in Europe

As evaluation partner for this Horizon Europe project, we will focus on how AI tools are designed, tested and applied

Research & evaluation

Employment

Future of work

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New framework to help measure the Just Transition in Scotland

A blueprint for the achievement of equitable outcomes during the low-carbon transition

Research & evaluation

Environment

Arts and organisations

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

Consultancy

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Diving into the unknown: how a European bank tackled a much-needed culture change

How we helped a national development bank to update its strategy and values

Consultancy

Leadership

Organisations

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The alignment of leadership and purpose at Omved Gardens

Transition and leadership development with an ambitious not-for-profit in London

Consultancy

Environment

Leadership

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A tale of little numbers affecting big numbers at global tech company ASML

The CEO’s brief to our team was to encourage integrated working across international boundaries and enable competing groups be more outward-focused

Consultancy

Leadership

Organisations

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The Leicester Conference

The 14-day experiential learning event for reflection, leading & following, within a global cohort.

Every year since 1957.

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Transforming systems around the world

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Improving the flexibility of European learning systems

Work with CEDEFOP to make learning outcomes transferable, to improve the employability of people in the EU

Research & evaluation

Education & training

Employment

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The Tavistock Institute in China

Extending Tavistock values, philosophy and practice into new environments.

Group relations

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Reducing marginalisation amongst young people

There are effective ways of supporting children and young people to stay in education and employment

Research & evaluation

Education & training

Employment

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Sustainability and the environment

From early work on open systems and the socio-environmental, to today’s efforts to support leaders and adaptation to ecological crisis.

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Tavistock Institute of Human Relations

Discovery Discovery Session - Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change (P3C)

Lunchtime Talks Religion and spirituality in organisations: Lunchtime Talk with Mark Argent, psychotherapist and consultant

Professional development Leadership and Presence: find your natural authority

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Foundational thinking that's shaped management and leadership, organisational development, business education and public policy all over the world.

Research & Evaluation

Arts and organisations

Consultancy

The Leicester Conference

Transforming systems around the world

Sustainability and the environment

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events and activities here