Elisabeth Henderson, a lead consultant in major organisational development, is founding Director of The Recess College and of The Leadership Insight Profile. Her websites can be found at the following addresses http://www.recesscollege.org and http://www.leadershipinsight.org.Her work has been at the cutting edge of organisational change and development, and in emergent national scenarios or regime change. Her clients included the Ministry for Privatization in Poland, after the ‘Velvet Revolution’, in its leadership of national macro-economic privatisation and business turnaround. Her range of international clients include Belfast City Council, St Thomas' Hospital (UK) and the expansion of private equity fund management within Central Europe, Watts Gallery (UK), Ikea (China), BASF (USA), An Award Winning Architectural Practice (India), Bern University (Switzerland), British Institute (Italy), STW (Netherlands), Allianz (Germany) and NHS (UK) amongst others. Elisabeth Henderson is associated with various consulting firms including YSA (South Africa) and Deloitte (UK) as well as a long standing connection with The Tavistock Insititute of Human Relations.Her understanding of the effect of organisations on people, and people on their environment, started in the depths of a Youth Club in the dangerous area of Moss Side, Manchester, an erstwhile immigrant area. As Director of The Recess College for Senior Executives and Professionals she offers leaders experiential learning of self (Identity)- and organisational development. The participants for this programme have come from Europe, the Americas, Asia (South, East and West), Australia and Africa and have come from across the spectrum of Private, Public and Voluntary Sector.Specialties: As a consultant she works with the political pressures, team and personal dynamics of large-scale organisational change and high-risk team projects across industry, government and the private sector.