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We support individuals, groups and organisations to navigate complexity, conflict and change in uncertain times.
Perichora Leaders
About us
About Perichora Leaders
We are specialist system-psychodynamic consultants with decades of diverse experience as practitioners, lawyers, leaders and managers across global organisations, charities, and public sector.
Our work brings together distinct forms of expertise: deep understanding of complex and varied organisations, unique insight into AI, data privacy and technology systems and governance, and specialist training navigating what happens at the intersection of individuals, groups, technology, and systems.
We help clients look at how relationships, patterns of interaction and organisational and technology context shape what people are able to think, say and do. This helps clients consider their challenges in context, helps them avoid locating problems solely in individuals, and opens up more effective ways of working across the systems they work in.
Our Services
Helping people, teams and organisations work better, together
We offer a range of tailored consultancy and strategic facilitation services to organisations, multi-stakeholder groups, pairs, individuals and teams. We support conflict resolution including group and team mediation, as well as providing formal workplace meditation services.
We also offer Learning Groups on several themes (e.g. AI & Humans at Work) and Peer Discussion and Reflective Practice Groups. Contact us to find out more.
About us
Here are the key principles that inform our work:
Our capacity grows in relationship
People and groups contain multitudes. Our work is underpinned by a belief that more is possible when we strengthen relationships, broaden perspectives and create space for different ways of knowing and contributing. Difference - of experiences, identities and ways of thinking - is a resource.
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We are future focused: effective conflict resolution strengthens future capacity
Conflict resolution isn't about making problems disappear. A strong capacity to address conflict strengthens relationships, deepens understanding and increases individuals' and groups' effectiveness.
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We facilitate and support: clients are the experts in their context
Capacity isn't something that can be installed. It is something we help people uncover, practise and extend through relationship.
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Power and authority are always in the room
We are committed to examining power and authority in groups. We attend to who decides, whose knowledge counts, who carries risk, who benefits. Different experiences, identities, ways of thinking and relating expand what a group is able to see and do.
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Change will not be harmonious, but it should not be harmful
We recognise that the work will be uncomfortable, and we are committed to providing an environment of care in which to contain and work with discomfort and uncertainty.
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Difference is a resource
Different experiences, identities, ways of thinking and relating expand what a group is able to see and do.
Meet Us
Meet Lucy McGrath
Principal Consultant, Lawyer and Mediator
Lucy is a system-psychodynamic organisation consultant, mediator and AI, privacy and data lawyer with over 20 years’ experience leading teams in small and large organisations. She is passionate about supporting humans and teams in a rapidly changing organisation, technical, ecological and social context.
She offers a uniquely broad lens having managed change programs and cross-functional teams including at NBCUniversal, BBC, and Thermo Fisher Scientific. She serves global clients across the private, community and public sector.
Lucy combines analytical rigour with a collaborative, warm, human-centred approach. She is committed to restorative justice principles and is skilled dealing with inter-group and inter-personal conflict. Her work helps clients develop greater capacity to work with complexity, difference and uncertainty, and to take considered action together.
Meet Jenny Zienau
Associate Consultant
Jenny is a relational systems practitioner and organisational consultant with over 25 years’ experience working with people, organisations and communities through complexity and change. Her background spans social work, strategic leadership and organisational development in public services, alongside work across creative, community and cross-sector settings.
Jenny is interested in the relational conditions that enable people and organisations to think, learn, create and adapt together. Her work attends particularly to what happens between people: how authority is taken and given, whose knowledge counts, how difference is encountered, and what gets carried or avoided. Drawing on systems-psychodynamic, relational, ecological and creative approaches, she brings warmth, curiosity, playfulness and challenge, helping people notice their patterns, stay thoughtful in uncertainty and discover possibilities no single perspective could see alone.
