Dr Chrysavgi Sklaveniti
Organisational Psychologist
At the heart of my expertise is the question: how do people come together to create movement in the world of work?
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I see work as a living, relational field shaped not only by structures and strategies, but by the ways we relate, respond, and act together. The individual, in this sense, is never separate, but always part of a wider web of connections through which co-action becomes possible.
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My research is about how people relate, coordinate, and make sense of what matters in everyday organisational life and how, through these processes, direction, collaboration, and movement begin to take shape. Grounded in organisational ethnography and close engagement with lived experience, I follow the practices, interactions, and living stories through which organisational life unfolds.
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I am interested in how direction and leadership emerge within these dynamics, and how spaces are formed in which people can engage collectively, turning moments of concern into moments of shared inquiry and action.
Professional Focus
My work brings together the analytical depth of organisational psychology with the practical insight of real-world experience — translating evidence into meaningful action for people and organisational development.
From here, I shed light on how people come together in ways that make co‑action possible: how they make sense of what matters, and how social spaces take shape for leadership, direction, and collaboration to emerge.
Consulting
I approach organisations as living systems shaped by psychological dynamics and organisational form. As part of Big 4 consulting, I collaborate with organisations to evolve their ways of working in times of complexity, transition, or emerging direction.
My work focuses on strengthening organisational capabilities by shaping how responsibility circulates, how decisions take form, and how people coordinate across boundaries. This work creates the conditions for collaboration to take hold and develop. Clear structures offer orientation, while shared practices guide everyday work in contexts that invite coordination, learning, and dialogue.
From here, my consulting connects strategy, organisational design, and people practices, enabling organisations to act with intention and coherence.
Academic
My academic work unfolds around how people come together — even when apart — to make sense of what matters and move collectively through work and organisational life. Threads of this inquiry have guided my research across my PhD in Leadership and my Postdoctoral work in Organisational Psychology, shaping my sustained immersion in empirical settings.
Through organisational ethnography, I follow the living stories by which organisational life takes form, attending to moments of connection, sensemaking, and concern — as openings for leadership, collaboration, and learning across contexts. I am drawn to turning points where voices meet, responsive interplays unfold, and organisational life shifts as it becomes. In teaching and supervision, I create spaces where students and researchers can work from lived experience, and develop inquiry that remains grounded, reflective, and closely attentive to practice.
Coaching
Rooted in psychological depth and enriched by close engagement with real‑world experience, my coaching work accompanies individuals, teams, and systems at moments of transition, challenge, or change. At its core, my approach is about shifting perspective and enabling movement — finding a different line of sight on situations and circumstances, and responding with greater awareness and purpose.
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I work across different levels of organisational life, attending to how people relate to themselves, to others, and to the wider contexts they are part of. Each coaching process becomes a contained space where reflection and action are held together, allowing patterns to be recognised, the unconscious to surface, and ways forward to emerge.
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As such, coaching mobilizes a quality of presence from which decisions and actions unfold as part of an ongoing becoming across time and identity.
