Leadership at the Edge Conference 2026 – Caribbean Group Relations Consulting

Dear Prospective Participant,

We invite you to join us at a moment of profound global transition.

In 2026, organizations and societies are confronting accelerating complexity — driven by Artificial Intelligence, synthetic and emerging superintelligence, climate uncertainty, economic realignment, and shifting social expectations. Technology is advancing faster than the cultures, structures, and leadership models that guide it.

Synthetic and superintelligent systems now go beyond processing information — they simulate reasoning, creativity, and even empathy. They can anticipate human intent, learn from emotion, and influence the ways people think, connect, and decide. This is redefining what it means to lead, to trust, and to take up authority in systems that are increasingly intelligent and interdependent.

The result: opportunity and disruption, innovation and anxiety — all unfolding side by side. The familiar tools of management are no longer enough. What is required now is strategic awareness — the ability to read the human and systemic dynamics that influence behaviour, collaboration, and performance.

Leadership on the Edge provides a space to study these dynamics in action. Grounded in the Group Relations tradition of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (UK), since 1957, the conference offers an experiential framework where participants explore where boundaries are blurred, and how authority, role, and leadership are taken up, shared, and challenged in real time.

This is not a conference about leadership — it is an immersive leadership learning environment. Through structured experiential events, participants uncover how power, trust, and resistance operate in organizations and systems — and how these unseen forces shape outcomes such as innovation, engagement, and strategic alignment.

The learning is personal, profound, and practical. It strengthens emotional intelligence, systemic insight, and the capacity to navigate uncertainty with confidence and integrity.

For organizations, the benefits are equally tangible: leaders who think systemically, collaborate effectively, make sound decisions under pressure, and manage the emotional and cultural dimensions of transformation. Such leadership translates directly into improved organizational agility, employee engagement, and sustainable change.

If you have the courage and are ready to engage with the challenges and possibilities of this new era — join us at the edge, where we explore authority, role, and identity in human- machine systems.

Eliat Aram and Mary Fullerton
Co-Directors
Caribbean Conference, 2026

About

What is Learning in a Group Relations Conference, and what makes it so powerful?

A Group Relations Conference is an educational event based on learning through experience. The design has been developed by pioneers from the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (UK), since 1957, and is now practiced internationally across sectors and cultures.

It provides a unique framework within which leaders, managers, and professionals can study how authority, leadership, and role are taken up in organizations. Participants learn about themselves, about others, and about the systems of which they are a part — discovering how both conscious and unconscious processes influence behaviour, relationships, and effectiveness at work.

This method allows the strategic, emotional, and structural dynamics of organizations to be observed and understood in real time. By working through these dynamics — rather than being told about them — participants learn by doing, gaining insight that is both practical and profound.

Primary Task

To study the exercise of leadership and authority, through inter-personal,
inter-group and institutional relations that develop within the conference, as a temporary organization in its wider context.

The learning is deep and long-lasting, promoting the integration of intellectual clarity, emotional intelligence, and systemic awareness. It cultivates leaders who can think and act creatively within complexity — who are better able to support themselves, their colleagues, and their organizations in adapting to and shaping the future.

We believe this learning strengthens the human capacity to lead with vision, courage, and awareness in a world increasingly influenced by intelligent systems and interconnected change.

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Benefits

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This conference is for anyone interested in personal growth and transformation; leaders, professionals, and change agents seeking a deeper understanding of leadership, authority, and collaboration in complex systems.
Participants may come from business, government, education, health, and civil society will explore — in real time — how roles, power, and group dynamics shape performance, innovation, and transformation.

Ideal for executives, CEOs, Managers, HR and OD Professionals, Consultants, Educators, Clinicians, Medical, Marketing, Financial, Public-Sector Managers, National Security, Students, NGO’s and emerging leaders who want to strengthen strategic awareness, adaptability, and systemic insight in the age of AI and organizational change.

Benefits to Participants

Participants will:

Gain strategic self-awareness — understanding how personal patterns, values, anxiety, emotion, and power dynamics influence leadership and decision-making.
Learn to navigate uncertainty and complexity with greater confidence, clarity, and adaptability.
Strengthen their ability to lead collaboratively, building trust and engagement across diverse teams and systems. Recognize and work with unconscious dynamics that affect group behaviour, conflict, and organizational culture.
Understanding how you influence or are influenced by others and the ensuing consequences-intended or unintended
Expand their capacity for reflection and foresight, developing new ways to think about authority, role, boundaries, and purpose in the age of intelligent systems.
Experience a transformative learning process that integrates emotional intelligence, systemic insight, and practical leadership action.

Benefits to Organisations

Organizations that support their leaders’ participation will see measurable value through:

Increased leadership agility — the ability to respond quickly and effectively to change.
Improved decision quality — leaders who recognize and manage the human and systemic factors shaping outcomes.
Healthier organizational cultures — fostering inclusion, trust, and authentic communication.
Greater innovation and foresight — integrating human creativity with emerging technologies.
Resilient and self-aware teams — better equipped to manage pressure, anxiety, collaboration, and transformation.
Ethical and adaptive governance — aligning human values with technological and organizational evolution.

Registration

Caribbean Group Relations Consulting, The Tavistock Institute & The University of the West Indies present

Leadership at the Edge: Al, Organization, and Identity in the Caribbean

Note: This is a non-residential conference. For travellers outside of Trinidad, a number of local hotels and venues are available. Contact: mary@caribbeangroupconsulting.com or 868 681 3483

Dates

Thursday 12th – Saturday 14th March, 2026

Venue

School of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Education,
The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus,
Agostini Street, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Cost

TT$3,750.00 / US$560.00

The conference fee includes lunch and evening snack.

Discounts

Early Registration
TT$3,250.00 / US$490.00,
if booked by 15th December, 2025

Student Participant
TT$2,300.00

Group Fees
Group Discount available for 4 persons from same organization, contact mary@caribbeangroupconsulting.com

Bursaries are available, based on financial need

Closing Date for Applications

Saturday 28th February, 2026

Register Now

Payment Options

Remit payment by Bank Transfer to:
Account Name: The Buzz Ltd.
Bank Name: First Citizens Bank Limited
Bank Address: 44-46 Maraval Road, Port of Spain
Bank Account No.: 1654712

Remit payment by Cheque to:
22 DeVerteuil Street,
Woodbrook,
Trinidad and Tobago
Make cheque out to: The Buzz Ltd.

Refunds & Cancellations

50% Refund for cancellations made before 30th December, 2025

No Refunds for cancellations made after 30th January, 2026

Please note: We suggest that if you are living through particular personal difficulties that you consider postponing your attendance to next year as the conference is designed as a learning event and is not a substitute for personal psychotherapy.

Conference Staff

Conference Directorate

Eliat Aram, Ph.D., is the CEO of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London, UK. Her GR career spans almost 30 years of conferences in the UK (The Tavistock Clinic, the Grubb Institute) and abroad (India, South Africa, France, The Netherlands, Israel), across cultural and geographical boundaries. She has been very fortunate to develop a capacity to understand the local context of where she works and to immerse in its vicissitudes.

Eliat has shaped, influenced and often directed the Tavistock Institute’s flagship Leicester conference since 2007; directed the AK Rice Institute annual residential 2016-2018, Teachers College Columbia University’s Fall GRC since 2013, and directed conferences in Lithuania (2012), Argentina (2013), Tavistock Institute China GRC (2019), GR Russia (2022) and Kazakhstan (June 2023) and is delighted to join Caribbean Group Relations in 2026.

Issues of leadership, authority and learning in a complex, nuanced, world are of daily concern, challenge and excitement for her.

Mary Fullerton, EMBA, is a Tavistock-trained Change Consultant (P3C; Dynamics at Board Level) and an iPEC USA -certified Executive Coach. She is Co-founder of Caribbean Group Relations Consulting (CGRC), advancing systems psychodynamics in leadership and organizational development. From 2018 to 2024, she curated and staffed Caribbean Group Relations conferences and directed 2022-2024 conferences.

She is the Managing Director of advertising agency The Buzz Limited, and Founder/CEO of the ADHD Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago, an advocate for inclusive systems and neurodiversity. Her focus is to help individuals, leaders and organizations navigate complexity, unlock human potential, and create adaptive cultures fit for the future.

Mary values deep listening, intercultural connection, and continuous learning in emerging science, AI, and transformational change.

Sharon Mangroo MSc. is the former Chief Executive Officer of the Catholic Education Board of Management and past Chief Education Officer of Trinidad and Tobago.

She has extensive experience in educational leadership, policy, and governance, with a particular interest in how institutions sustain identity amid change.

She holds an M.Sc. in Agricultural Education from Michigan State University, a Diploma in Education, and a B.Sc. in Agriculture from the University of the West Indies and has pursued doctoral studies in education.

Her current interests include leadership and organisational adaptation in an era shaped by artificial intelligence.

Consultant Staff

Eliat Aram, Ph.D., is the CEO of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London, UK. Her GR career spans almost 30 years of conferences in the UK (The Tavistock Clinic, the Grubb Institute) and abroad (India, South Africa, France, The Netherlands, Israel), across cultural and geographical boundaries.

Dr Leslie B. Brissett, JP Advisory Board Member Eco-Leadership Institute and Partners for Confronting Collective Atrocities (PCCA) and Management Board Socioanalysis Journal, Australia.

Former Group Relations Programme Director at Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, UK.

Fr. Urban Hudlin, O.P. is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, organizational consultant and Dominican priest whose ministry bridges theology, psychology, and systems thinking.

Urban completed his doctoral studies in contextual theology at the Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, and training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the School of Medicine, University College Dublin. He also holds advanced certification in Group Relations, Consultancy, and Change and Dynamics at Board Level from the Tavistock Institute, London.

As a partner in Caribbean Group Consulting, Urban’s work focuses on leadership development, pastoral renewal, and transformation within faith communities and organizations.

Through his psychoanalytic and consultancy practice, Urban helps groups and individuals engage the interplay of spirituality, culture, and the unconscious forces that shape human and institutional life.

Keith Lequay Ph.D. Organisational Psychologist, Lecturer, and Leadership Coach

A certified Group Relations Consultant (USA), he explores globally, the impact of the colonial mis-educational experience on inter alia, contemporary challenges of self-authorisation, dependency, group dynamics, and personal boundaries.

Kathleen Stroud M.A., Dip. Ed., B.A. Organizational Analyst. Principal Consultant/Director at Leadership Core Ltd. Organizational Development and Change Leadership Practitioner.

Methodology

While staff and members are both participants, the conference accords them different roles. The staff members of the conference are allocated to each of the events in the role of consultants or in the role of collective management to work to the primary task of the event and to the task of the conference as a whole. This they do through the offering of working hypotheses and other forms of interventions.

They work by constantly trying to make sense of their own experiences and what is happening for members. It is expected that staff hypotheses and interpretations will also create the possibility for individual members to reflect on what they represent to the group, what they are taking in from the group and what they are contributing to the group, particularly in terms of what may be happening unconsciously and in ways that are more hidden.

Previous Participants

National Participants

Agricultural Development Bank of Trinidad and Tobago – T&T
Antilles Episcopal Conference – T&T
Archdiocese of Port of Spain – T&T
C.F. International Marketing – T&T
Caribbean Telecommunications Union – T&T
Catholic Education Board of Management – T&T
Catholic Religious Education Development Institute – T&T
COTT – T&T
Eastern Antilles Interdiocesan Tribunal – T&T
Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex
Erica Ashton – T&T
First Line Securities, T&T
FT Farfan Ltd – T&T
Guardian Shared Services Ltd – T&T
Heritage Petroleum Company Limited – T&T
Holy Faith Sisters
Institute of International Relations – T&T
iTutortt – T&T
Lonsdale Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Limited – T&T
Ministry of Education – T&T
Ministry of Gender and Child Affairs – T&T
Moore Business Solutions Trinidad and Tobago Ltd
Odyssey Consulting Limited – T&T
Office of the Prime Minister – T&T
Office of Youth Ministry – T&T
Piarco Air Services Limited – T&T
Presentation College
Providence Girls’ Catholic School – T&T
Rich Solutions. Hard Designs.
Ryu Dan Empowerment Foundation – T&T
Sandstone Consulting Limited – T&T
Society of African Missions – Afrikahuis
Society of St Vincent de Paul – T&T
St Anns Hospital – T&T
St Joseph’s Convent, San Fernando – T&T
St Joseph’s Convent, St. Joseph – T&T
TECU Credit Union Co-operative Society Limited – T&T
The Buzz Ltd – T&T
The Nursing Council of Trinidad & Tobago – T&T
The University of Trinidad and Tobago – T&T
The University of the West Indies
Therapy and Beyond – T&T
Trinidad & Tobago Association of Psychologists – T&T
Trinidad & Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce
Trinidad & Tobago Police Service
Trinidad & Tobago Prison Service
TRINRE Insurance Company Limited – T&T
UWI – Arthur Lok Jack GSB – T&T
UWI School of Business and Applied Studies Limited – T&T

International Participants

ACNJ – UK
A. K. Rice Institute – USA
Arrow Group – Abu Dhabi
Beijing Jiaotong University, Counselling Center – China
Broadcasting Commission – Jamaica
Caribbean Catalyst Inc. – Barbados
City of Toronto – Canada
Consultation and Coaching Services – USA
Dr. Bob LLC – USA
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland – Finland
IMSITSAI – USA
Independent Researcher/ Consultant – UK
Jacobs & Jacobs – Peru
Jasmine Victoria LLC – Puerto Rico
New York University – USA
Olly Potts Leadership Consulting – UK
PARC – Canada
Prins in Communicatie – The Netherlands
Private Practice – USA / T&T
RMC Counselling – USA
RtL Consultancy – Hungary
Schenectady City School District – USA
Society of African Missions – Afrikahuis
Synapse Psychological Services Inc. – Barbados
Tavistock Clinic – UK
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
The Second Chair – UK
Tigh-na-Fios Consulting, – Scotland, UK
University of Central Missouri – USA
University of Pennsylvania – USA
University of Richmond – USA
University of South Africa – South Africa

Sponsoring Institutions

Caribbean Group Relations Consulting Ltd.

Caribbean Group Relations Consulting Ltd. was created to
provide services in the areas of consulting, organizational change and transformation to organizations in public and private sectors. Our members work as Consultants, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists, and Organizational Psychologists. Caribbean Group Relations Consulting Ltd., is working to develop and apply the field of Group Relations and Systems Psychodynamics in the Caribbean.

caribbeangroupconsulting.com

The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations

The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations is a not-for-profit, UK based organization that applies social science to contemporary issues and prob- lems. It was formally founded as a registered charity in 1947 although its work started before the War, together with the Tavistock Clinic. The Institute is engaged with evaluation and action research, organizational development and change consultancy, executive coaching and professional development all in service of supporting sustainable change and ongoing learning.

tavinstitute.org