Antony has a professional background as a group analytic psychotherapist and organisational consultant. He is a training analyst and supervisor with the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA). He was the director of training for group analysis in Manchester and for the diploma in reflective practice in organisations (IGA). Antony supervised students on the MSc. in Personality Disorder (Institute of Mental Health/Open University) and was an associate professor at Birmingham University for the MSc in Healthcare Leadership (NHS Leadership Academy Award in Senior Healthcare Leadership).

Antony is interested in critical perspectives on leadership and organisational processes, and how these relate to personal and collective change. He has been a Quaker for over 30 years, and he is interested in contemporary Quakerism from a social science perspective. His PhD research explored Quakers’ understandings of Quaker leadership and argued that leadership theories are underpinned by a quasi-spiritual (soteriological) theology of leadership.

Qualifications:

PhD: Beyond the sacred and profane: how Quakers subvert the quasi-spiritual theology of leadership, University of Northumbria (2026) https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/beyond-the-sacred-and-profane-how-quakers-subvert-the-quasi-spiri/

MA: Psychoanalysis and the organisation, Tavistock clinic/University of East London (2006)

PGCE: University of Keele (1988)

Degree: Sociology (2:1) BA (hons), University of York (1987)