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Who we are

Founded in London in 1947 to study group behaviour, the Tavistock Institute integrates social science, psychoanalytic thinking and the arts. We are here to help you uncover what’s going on in organisations, address challenges of leadership, or enable systems change.

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Our team brings social scientists, researchers, organisational consultants, psychologists and anthropologists together under one roof.

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Milda Autukaitė

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Kari P. Hadjivassiliou

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Anna Sophie Hahne

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Giorgia Iacopini

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Dr. Kerstin Junge

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Dr Annja Neumann

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Dr. Mannie Sher

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Dr. Thomas Spielhofer

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