David Lawlor is professional partner at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, specialising in research and consultancy practice; co-director on Organisational Consultancy: Working with the Dynamics; visiting lecturer at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust; group relations consultant; formerly, head of the Social Work Discipline at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust; and principal consultant at Tavistock Consultancy.

Mannie Sher is principal social scientist at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations; formerly, director of Group Relations Programme; formerly, chair of British Association of Psychotherapists; former board member of International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations (ISPSO); author of The Dynamics of Change: Tavistock Approaches to Improving Social Systems (2013); and editor of Dynamics at Boardroom Level: A Tavistock Primer for Leaders, Coaches and Consultants; Lawlor, D. & Sher, M. (2022) and An Introduction to Systems Psychodynamics: Consultancy, Research and Training, Routledge.

Foreword by James Krantz Introduction 'Emergence' Part One: Change 1. The Vicissitudes of Change 2. Socio-technical Systems and Change 3. Socio-technical Systems in the 21st Century (Part 1) 4. Socio-technical Systems in the 21st Century (Part 2) Part Two: Action Research and Evaluation 5. The Application of Action Research 6. Evaluation of Systems Psychodynamics Activities: Approaches and Challenges 7. Planning and Conducting an Organisational Development Evaluation 8. Varieties of Action Research Part Three: Leadership and Whole Systems 9. Socio-ecological: Working with Large Complex Collaborative Partnerships (Whole Systems) 10. Complexity Theory 11. The Systems Psychodynamics View of Leadership 12. Social Dreaming 13. Systems Psychodynamics and the Impact of Digitalisation, AI and Virtual Working on the Eco-system Part Four: Systems Psychodynamics Developments, Definitions and Professional Development 14. Professional Development for Systems Psychodynamics Consultants 15. Systems Psychodynamics: Developments and Definitions 16. Theoretical Developments in the Systems Psychodynamics Paradigm Appendix I: Systems Psychodynamics: Organisational Resources Appendix II: Literature Review on Systems Psychodynamics