Depth Leadership: Unlocking Unconscious Potential in the Workplace

Hélène Smit has thirty-five years' experience in the application of depth psychology theory to facilitation, conflict resolution, leadership development and coaching, building psychological and systemic literacy and integrity in individuals and groups in a variety of settings. Specifically, she is skilled in helping groups and teams deal with seemingly intractable and chronic conflicts and dilemmas. This involves working with unconscious processes both to unleash greater creativity and to minimise the negative organisational impact of under-the-surface conflict. Hélène has worked with NGOs, local, provincial and national government, and many large and small business organisations. She has been Visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business and now teaches at Henley Business School, looking after the MBA groups. She holds a PhD from Stellenbosch University in which she formulated a model and designed a curriculum for the development of leadership integrity to cultivate an internal moral ecology in leaders that embraces the complex and conflicting demands of individual, collective and systemic well-being.