May 2025
Pop-up: Top Team Dynamics in a Downturn with Peter Shepherd
Join us for our next pop-up on the 10th June, from 8.30am to 10.00am. Peter will present a case study focusing on top team dynamics in a downturn. The material comes from an ethnographic study of a leadership team in professional services. The research concerned the unconscious influence of anxiety and corresponding defences on leadership behaviour, organisational mood and business performance.
Why is it of interest and why now?
Top team dynamics can offer a source of differentiation and competitive advantage or represent a self-imposed limit to growth. Given current levels of geopolitical and economic instability, organisations of all types and sizes cannot afford to repeat self-sabotaging patterns or overlook systemic issues sapping energy or driving attrition.
Who should be interested?
This talk will be of interest to leaders in professional services, C-suite executives, Board members, organisation development practitioners and organisational ethnographers.
If you would like to attend, you can sign up here.
About Peter
Dr. Peter Shepherd is an academic and independent management consultant specialising in group dynamics. His work is shaped by the influences of systems thinking, psychoanalysis and organisational anthropology. He is a full member of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the RSA and a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD.
His business career has included spells with Roffey Park, Ashridge and London Business School. He also served with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Peter holds a Bachelors degree in European Drama from Leeds University, a Masters of Science in Organisation Development from Salford University, a PG Cert in Positive Psychology from Case Western Reserve University and a professional doctorate in Advanced Research: Consultation and the Organisation from the Tavistock Clinic.
Outside his work, Peter is a Senior County Referee for the Sussex FA.
You can find and connect with Peter on LinkedIn here.
