Transforming Organizations Narrative and Story-Based Approaches

Jacques Chlopczyk is an organizational psychologist, systemic consultant, facilitator and author. He works internationally with profit and not–for–profit clients to ignite, facilitate and sustain change in their organizations and teams. He lectures on systemic consulting and change management at the Centre for Systemic Consulting and Research, The University of Trier (Germany) and other institutions. He is initiator and catalyst of the Beyond Storytelling Network and its conference, and is the editor of the book "Beyond Storytelling – Narrative Ansätze und die Arbeit mit Geschichten in Organisationen" (Springer, 2017) .



Christine Erlach studied psychology and systemic therapy. In her past experiences as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Munich (Germany) her studies dealt with power of narrative methods for finding and transporting tacit knowledge and cultural values and beliefs. For the last 20 years she has been using narrative methods to make implicit, experiential knowledge and beliefs tangible, and she advises organizations in knowledge transfer processes. She is founder of NARRATA Consult, a network that is specializing in narrative knowledge- and change management. She has authored numerous publications on narrative methods in organizations.