Independent consultancy established in 1989.

Conversational change process
New approaches to leadership
Working with story and myth
Creative co-consulting and action learning.

Mary Frances has been operating as an independent organisation consultant and facilitator since 1989.
Her work is based on constructivist approaches to organisational change, staff management and leadership development, relationships at work, and personal & professional change and transition.
This work includes corporate consultancy, facilitating learning sets, the design and delivery of training programmes, individual and team coaching, counselling support, group facilitation, and qualitative research projects
Her work brings together personal and organisational development – a background in psychology, counselling and facilitation giving exceptional skills in working with people both as individuals and in large and small groups, combined with an in-depth understanding of how organisations and systems change and develop.

Her client base includes organisations in the public, commercial and voluntary sectors, from small family-run businesses to large multi-nationals, and from local voluntary groups to county councils with 40,000+ staff. She has experience of working in government agencies (local, regional, European), in education, retail, travel, arts, utilities, chemicals, packaging, textiles, architecture, hotels and catering, and in voluntary organisations and charities.
Her current professional interests are innovative constructivist approaches to leadership and change; developing methods for creative co-consulting, action learning and practitioner research; and exploring the conversational change processes of everyday working life
As well as running her own consultancy, Mary is a Director and teacher of the Personal Construct Psychology Association in the UK, is on the Editorial Board for international journal Personal Construct Theory & Practice, and is a Visiting Tutor to the Schools of Constructivist Psychology in Belgrade, Serbia & Padova, Italy.
She also has Chartered Membership of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development.

Director of PCP Association UK

Chartered member of Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development

Editorial Board for international journal Personal Construct Theory & Practice

Visiting Tutor to Schools of Constructivist Psychology Belgrade & Padova

Organizational Change and Personal Mythology
Personnel Review, Vol 24 No4, 1995

A Personal Construct Approach to Change in Teams
Training and Management Development Methods, Vol 9 Issue 5, 1995

Decision Making and Organisational Change
Paper to XII International Congress for Personal Construct Psychology, Seattle 1997

Culture and Change in Organisations
in Fisher, J and Savage, D, (eds), Beyond Experimentation into Meaning, EPCA, 1999

Power, Partnership and Learning
Paper to European PCP Conference, Berlin 2000

Conflict in Groups – A PCP Approach
in Chiari G., and Nuzzo, M.L., (eds), Psychological Constructivism and the Social World, Francoangeli/EPCA 2003

The Preference Axis – complexity and ambiguity in personal construing
Personal Construct Theory and Practice, Vol 1 no 3, 2004

Stand at the back and pretend – the experience of learning to sing
In Schoer, J (ed) Personal Construct Psychology and the Arts, Sozial-Verlag, 2006