Vega Roberts

Course Tutor and Supervisor

From her first career as a psychotherapist, and throughout her 30+ years in organisational consulting and leadership development, Vega has been fascinated by the question of what stops us from doing what matters most to us. Much of her work has been accompanying people to challenge the self-limiting assumptions and narratives that constrain both individuals and larger systems. Having lived and worked in several different countries, she also has a special interest in how differences, and even conflict, can become resources for more collaborative partnerships within and between organisations.

Vega works as an independent consultant and as an associate of Tavistock Consulting, and has been a course tutor and supervisor on the Trust’s professional doctorate in Advanced practice and research: consultation and the organisation(D10D) and Tavistock qualification in consultation (D10C) programmes since 2016. Vega taught on the Tavistock and Portman’s MA course in Consulting and leading in organisations: psychodynamic and systemic approaches (D10/ED10) from 2014-2022.

Previous positions include being an internal consultant in a mental health trust, an associate of the Health Service Management Centre (U. of Birmingham) and of Axiome, a change consultancy in Switzerland, and a senior organisational analyst at the Grubb Institute of Behavioural Studies where she co-directed their international masters ‘Organisational Analysis: freedom to make a difference’, supervising students leading transformation projects in Europe, Asia and the UK. Much of her current practice is supervising consultants and consultancy teams working with private, public and voluntary sector organisations.

Vega is a co-editor of ‘The Unconscious at Work’ (expanded 2nd edition 2019) and has contributed a number of chapters to books on leadership, coaching and organisational dynamics.