New Form of Psychodynamic Management Consulting Offers Alternative for Executives Leading or Managing Change

Survey after survey points to the pressing need for change in business. Yet these same surveys indicate that implementing change successfully is a significant challenge for CEOs and managers alike.

Now, business leaders struggling with change have an alternative approach that identifies subtle keys to effective implementation and pinpoints potential stumbling blocks early on.
This allows executives to better link organizational performance with company strategy.

Executive Dynamix, founded by Robert C. Karlsberg, MD, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and Jane M. Adler, MD, a specialist in behavioral medicine and interpersonal dynamics, recently launched a new form of psychodynamic management consulting, focusing on the impact of executive team and group dynamics on business performance.

"Maximizing productive dynamics at the senior executive level has a significant positive effect on the organization," says Karlsberg, "because these dynamics cascade through the ranks. Productive executive team dynamics — such as candor, cross-functional collaboration, and constructive feedback — are a model for behavior at all levels. Often minor adjustments at the top have an exponential impact on productivity throughout the organization."

The guiding principles behind the psychodynamic management consulting offered by Executive Dynamix come from observations made by the late management guru Peter Drucker. Drucker found that disappointing business results could almost always be traced to misalignments in the senior executive team.

According to Karlsberg, "These misalignments do not arise from any interpersonal malice, but rather from the fact that executives often pull in different directions without even being aware of their divergences. This results in ineffective decision-making, misdirected action, and paralyzed execution."

Unlike other mental heath practitioners who function as organizational consultants, Executive Dynamix's approach does not rely on traditional psychometric testing or interventions directed at midlevel workers.

"Instead," says Adler, "we work directly with senior leaders, assess the current psychodynamic state of the organization, and structure the necessary social operating mechanisms that enable change leaders to get better results, faster."

In addition to executives leading change, psychodynamic management consulting benefits business leaders who need to:

— transition rapidly into a new leadership environment
— enhance the working relationships of their management team
— acquire psychological advantages for business integrations
— add an outside, objective perspective to their own assessment
of a management team’s functioning

Visit Executive Dynamix online at www.ExecutiveDynamix.com for a free special report, WHY CHANGE INITIATIVES FAIL: and What You Can Do about It.

For further information on psychodynamic management consulting, or Executive Dynamix, contact Dr. Robert Karlsberg or Dr. Jane Adler at info@ExecutiveDynamix.com or call 301-294-2281.