Dr Helen Shaw
Helen is a leadership and organisational consultant, coach, educator and researcher who works with individuals, teams and organisations. She uses a systems psychodynamic approach to work alongside people to find creative ways of approaching working life challenges so that individuals, teams and organisations can thrive. She supports open and collaborative working cultures where diversity and complexity can be embraced. She integrates a wealth of operational and strategic expertise to her consultancy and leadership practice.
She is
- an associate consultant at Workforce Development Trust,
- an associate consultant at the Kings Fund
- a certified Analytic Network Coach.
She co-led the human rights charity INQUEST for 21 years, navigating complex and challenging political and legal milieu to bring about lasting changes to practice and policy.
She has public sector non-executive board level experience (Retained Organs Commission and Human Tissue Authority) and trustee experience in the voluntary sector (Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and British Irish Rights Watch).
She is passionate about confronting discrimination and has a longstanding interest in and commitment to creating structures and pathways that enable marginalised people to speak directly to those at the heart of the policy making and political process
Helen was Head of the Inter-professional Portfolio in the Directorate of Education and Training at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust managing a range of postgraduate and bespoke trainings until March 2025.
She has taught on the Trust’s Master’s in Consulting and Leading in Organisations: psychodynamic and systemic approaches and Professional Doctorate advanced practice and research: consultation and the organisation and at University of Birmingham on the NHS Leadership Academy MSc in Health Care Excellence/Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Programme.
