Tavistock Consulting at 30: Videos of celebratory event

Tavistock Consulting, our specialist organisational development and change consultancy, recently celebrated 30 years of consultancy practice with an event focused on building workforce resilience and future-proofing the NHS.

Attended by NHS Executives, senior leaders, managers and frontline workers, as well as consultants, colleagues and friends from across the health sector and beyond, the conference explored what drives behaviour, performance and outcomes in the NHS, and how best to develop the resilient workforce required to deliver reform.

Recordings from the day

Charlotte Williams, Tavistock Consulting’s Director, outlined the enduring relevance of the Tavistock model, and why the approach is perhaps more relevant now than ever in the NHS and other organisations.

Jon Stokes, Founder of Tavistock Consulting, reflects on Tavistock Consulting’s emergence in the mid-1990s was of its time, putting the concept of ‘emotional intelligence’ to work in organisational consultancy. 

Rose McCarthy, one of Tavistock Consulting’s Senior Organisational Consultants, discusses the nature of its work and aims, and introduces a range of case studies that demonstrate its impact. 

In a second talk, Charlotte Williams discussed how the power of containment can build workforce resilience.

Louise Ashley, Interim Regional Chief Nurse, NHS England East of England Region and former CEO, Homerton Healthcare Foundation Trust, explored how the ‘systems psychodynamics’ model that underpins Tavistock Consulting’s approach has informed her successful and celebrated leadership practice.

Matthew Trainer, CEO at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust and HSJ’s ‘CEO of the year’, spoke in his keynote address about his experience of executive coaching and how Tavistock Consulting can help leadership teams tackle some of their key workforce challenges.

Percy Watungwa, Deputy Director of Nursing and Kerrie Myall, Head of Clinical Education – both at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust – presented a series of case studies of successful consultancy interventions in their setting.