INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES

OPUS is becoming ever more international and considers that representation in other countries will be of value to OPUS and OPUS Associates in those other countries. Consequently we have invited those who we have worked with and know to be reliable colleagues to become OPUS National Representatives.

The post is by invitation only and is intended to be mutually rewarding. It is not a role requiring a great deal of formality or administration. Rather, it is regarded as the first point of contact or reference in a particular country to provide advice and guidance on membership and other matters such as information about and booking for OPUS events. They may also be the Convener of the national Listening Post. As an OPUS National Representative we would hope that those concerned will continue to actively support the aims and activities of OPUS.

In appreciation of taking up this role, Representatives will be entitled to free membership as an OPUS Associate and get the same benefits as paying members including supply of the OPUS Journal. They may also attend the twice yearly OPUS Strategy Meetings.

Australia, Dr Jinette de Gooijer.

Jinette de Gooijer, PhD is a Socio-analyst, and consults to organisations on understanding the hidden aspects of organisational culture and their effects on business performance, with the view to develop work cultures that promote creativity and prosperity for organisations, individuals and wider society. She is the founder and Principal Consultant of Innovative Practice Consulting Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia. She is a founding member and Vice-President of Group Relations Australia, Associate of OPUS, and member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of organisations.

Austria, Simon Severino.

Simon Severino is a Vienna based international executive and corporate consultant. His expertise is founded in leadership and innovation, decision making strategies, enhancing team effectiveness, development of leadership skills based on the capacity to find, use and enhance creativity and organisational learning, achieving breakthrough corporate thinking and longterm successful cooperations. He is an OPUS associate and works as Consultant to VCG Vienna Consulting Group GmbH Vienna. He also works in private practice as a Psychotherapist with individuals, couples and groups. He is a member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Studies of Organizations (ISPSO), the Austrian Society for Group Psychotherapy and Group Relations (ÖAGG), the International Society for Group Analysis (IAG), the Group Analytic Society London (GAS) and the Human Capital Club (HCC).

Bulgaria, Rumen Petrov.

Rumen Petrov, MD works in the Bulgarian Institute for Human Relations in New Bulgarian University, Sofia as lecturer in Group Relations. He is a PhD student in UWE, Bristol, UK at the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies. His practical and research interests are directed to the field of public and political participation of citizens, community development, dynamics of authority and leadership with special emphasis on public services and NGO sectors inBulgaria.

Canada, Sholom Glouberman.

Sholom Glouberman is Philosopher in Residence at the Kunin Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit of Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Adjunct Professor at the Universities of McGill and Toronto, and director of the International Masters Program for Health Leadership at McGill. He has a BA from McGill and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cornell University. For the past 25 years he has applied philosophical methods and conceptual analysis to organisations and systems. He has focused increasingly on the area of health as the single most challenging and little-charted frontier.

Chile, Eduardo Acuna.

Eduardo Aca, is a Professor of the Faculty of Economic and Business, University of Chile; he holds an M.A. in organisational Change, University of Leeds; Action Research Training Programme, Tavistock Institute, London; Sociologist, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Denmark, Zanne Lorenzen

Zanne Lorenzen is a certified specialist and supervisor in organisation psychology. She is cofounder of and partner in PROCES, a consultancy firm that works with leadership and organisation development from a systems psychodynamic perspective. For the last 22 years she has been involved in group relations work with a special interest in applying thinking and experiences from this work in developing unthought resources in public and private organisations. She is an external lecturer at MPO, a† master program in organisation psychology at the University of Roskilde, member of the International†Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of organisations, Associate of OPUS, cofounder of NAPSO: a network for applied systems psychodynamic organisation psychology.

France, Maryse Dubouloy.

Maryse Dubouloy (Doctorat) is psychosociologist. She is professor at ESSEC Business School (France) in Management Department. She coaches managers and executives. She works as a consultant with Reseau-Pluridis. Her main concern is organisational change. She is a member of ISPSO and CIRFIP (Centre International de Recherche, Formation et Intervention Psychosociologique).

Finland, Harri Hyppia.

Harri Hyppia is a Senior Consultant and founder member, The Finnish Society for organisational Dynamics, FINOD training analyst, The Finnish Society for Group Psychotherapy. He has worked for more than thirty years in leadership, its development, and management renewal. His special interests have focused on creating the climate and space for managers to evaluate and rethink their roles in management and organisation functions. The Metanoia Institute, of which he is director, works primarily with these tasks. His cooperation with the Tavistock Institute has included participation in the Advanced organisational Consultation (AOC) Programme.

Germany, Claudia Nagel.

Dr. Claudia Nagel holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Cologne and a PhD in Organizational Psychology. She is also trained as a Jungian Analyst at ISAP (Zurich). She started her professional career as a director of the Institute of Business Ethics. After extensive experience in management consulting (Gemini Consulting) and in different leadership positions in investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse) she has founded her own management consulting company (Mercurius Management Consulting) focusing on strategy development and change management processes. Her specialty is the integration of the psychoanalytic perspective with her management experience. She has worked and studied in New York, London, Paris and Germany.

Greece, Dimitris Vonofakos.

Dimitris Vonofakos (BA Psych., MA,) is an OPUS associate and social researcher with a background in psychology and further academic studies in psychoanalytic theory. His research interests are in the psychoanalytic investigation of social dynamics, in particular health-care institutions, as well as in the epistemological debate around psychoanalytically-informed research methods (such as, observation and interviews). He has presented extensively in different international conferences.

Holland, John Scheenen.

John Scheenen is the founder/managing director of Allied Consult, a consultancy firm which aims at the psychological and systemic aspects of leadership and organisational development. As management consultant he specialises in diagnosing organisational issues and in framing, directing and implementing processes connected with change and transition in a variety of organisations.

He has finished his studies in Labour and Organisational psychology at the University of Groningen. He holds also a Masters degree in Management and Organisation from the Catholic University of Brabant and Ashridge Management Institute in the UK.

He is frequently a member of the behavioural faculty of various international management development programmes on leadership and team development in multinational organisations in Asia, Europe and in North and South America.

John is an associate of OPUS, and member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of organisations.

Hungary, Sandor Takacs.

Sandor Takacs, Ph.D.is currently associate professor and deputy head of department at the Department of organisational Behavior, Corvinus University of Budapest. He is director of the University Human Resource Management Programme and regular lecturer in executive MBA. He has 12 years of training and consulting experience in systemic organisation development working in individual and group development projects at Hungarian and multinational companies. He is professionally attracted to humanistic approaches (psychodrama, transaction analysis) and is a member of the Hungarian Association of organisational Development, the Hungarian Psychodrama Association and the International Society for Psychodynamic Studies of organisations.

Ireland, Mary Rafferty.

Mary Rafferty is an independent Organisation Development consultant working primarily in the public service and not for profit sector. She works with individuals, teams and whole systems. She is a graduate of the Tavistock Instituteís Advanced Organisational Consultation programme.

Israel, Judy Levy.

Judith Levy is a lecturer in the English Department of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She is also a group relations consultant and executive coach, an OPUS Associate, a member of OFEK, Israel, and a Board Member of ISPSO.

Italy, Antonio Sama.

Antonio Sama, is a sociologist and organisational consultant. He works in the field of social care both in the UK and Italy. He holds Lecturer posts in Italian and English Universities for the education of social workers both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Antonio main areas of interest both as educator and consultant are in organisational design and change management in social care agencies with a view to support individuals and groups in taking on and taking pride of the innovative opportunities produced in turbulent and anxious environments. Antonio is an Associate of Opus and member of the Executive Committee of the Tavistock Institute Advanced organisational Consultation Society.

Norway, Renate Grønvold Bugge.

Renate Grønvold Bugge is a qualified psychologist; she holds a graduate degree in Psychology from the University of Oslo, and is an approved specialist in clinical psychology and occupational and organisational psychology, approved by the Norwegian Psychologist Association. She also has solid expertise in the understanding of how groups and organisations function, which she has developed through her many years of work with Group Relations Conferences based on the model from the Tavistock Centre for Human Relations, London.

Poland, Iwona Soltysinska.

Iwona Soltysinska is a psychologist, deputy director of Jagiellonian University Extension for Scientific & Educational Affairs. She works as consultant and trainer, leads Train the Trainers Programs and designs courses for individuals and organizations. She has a particular interest in group dynamics and individual and organizational change.

Portugal, Tiago Mendes.

Tiago Santos Sousa Mendes Graduated in Clinical Psychology at Superior Institute of Applied Psychology, Lisbon. He trained in a Drug Addiction Centre, in Lisbon, as a trainee psychologist, and worked in a therapeutic community for children and adolescents. He is currently a Ph.D. Research Student at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. His research topic is focused on Social Defence Systems in Portuguese Mental Health Institutions. He also teaches courses in child care institutions to staff members of several Portuguese childrenís homes. He is co-editor of a book published in Portugal "Childrenís homes: Which perspectives?" (in print: 2009). He is an OPUS.Associate.

Serbia, Dr Marina Mojovic.

Marina Mojovic worked at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University Clinical Centre of Serbia as a medical doctor and then as a specialist psychiatrist for fifteen years till 2000.

Since 2000. she has worked in her own private practice as a psychiatrist in Belgrade, providing individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy and as a group analyst. She is a full Member of the Group-Analytic Society, London since 2007; a Member of the Institute of Group Analysis Belgrade; and an OPUS Associate.

South Africa, Dr Frans Cilliers.

Frans Cilliers, D.Phil, is a professor in Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the University of South Africa in Pretoria, director of the Doctorate in Consulting Psychology and researcher. As psychologist, he consults to organisations in organisational development and executive coaching.

Spain, Dr Ignacio Garcia & Beatriz Benito Nieto.

Ignacio García Masó is a psychologist, Master in Psychotherapy by the IEEPP, Doctorandum in the department of Industrial Psychology of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He trained as organisational consultant in the IEEPP-Tavistock programme of organisational Consultancy, and trained in Group Relations in The Leicester Conferences and in Israel. He is a partner of Leister Consultores Consultancy firm specialising in organisational development, team building and human relations in organisations. He teaches on managerial skills and coaching in different business schools and is a senior coach certificated by AECOP. (Spanish Association of Coaching and process consultancy).

Beatriz Benito Nieto is a psychologist and psychotherapist, where she works with children and adult. She has also trained as a consultant in Spain in the IEEPP-Tavistock programme of organisational Consultancy and in a Group Relation Conference in the Leicester Conference. She is also an organisational consultant and partner of Leister Consultores, and a founder member of AECOP (Spanish Association of Coaching).

Sweden, Stefan Jern.

Stefan Jern, PhD, is Reader in Group and organisational Psychology at Lund University, Sweden, teaching psychological consultation and organisational and group psychology with research interests in the areas of new models of group development; professionalisation processes - strategies and identity issues and group training as a field of influence. His professional career has been in clinical and organisational psychology. Active in the Group Relations world as consultant and director since the mid-70ies and former president of AGSLO (The Swedish Foundation for the Study of Leadership and organisation).

Switzerland, Heather Cairns-Lee.

Heather is a Partner in HeidelRose GmbH, a coaching and consulting Partnership. She concentrates her energy on leadership development using a psycho-dynamic approach and experiential learning. Her coaching practice partners with individuals and groups to create challenging and supportive processes to explore visible and invisible aspects of life. Heather has conducted research into learning and leadership, worked on executive Leadership and MBA programs at IMD and other European Business Schools as group consultant, individual coach and adjunct faculty. Prior to this she held a number of strategic positions at IMD, including Director of Partnership Programs and Director of the Learning Network. Heather has lived and worked in different countries and has made considerable life transitions as a parent of young children.

USA, Larry Gould.

Larry is a former Director and Professor of Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York. He is the founding Co-Director of the Program in organisational Development and Consultation at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; Director of The Socio-Analytic Training Program at The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). He is a Fellow of OPUS and, founding Co-Editor of the OPUS International Journal 'organisational & Social Dynamics'. He has a private practice of psychoanalysis, and organisational consultation in New York City.