About InnerWorks
Unveiling hidden dynamics to unlock the potential for a profound and sustainable change
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Insightful strategies, tailored solutions
How the work is held
InnerWorks Consulting is a psychodynamic and systemic organizational practice supporting leaders, teams, and organizations navigating complexity, pressure, and change.
The work looks beneath the immediate issue to understand the emotional, relational, and systemic dynamics shaping organizational life. Attention is given to how anxiety, history, power, roles, and recurring patterns influence decisions, relationships, and performance — especially during periods of uncertainty and transition.
Rather than applying standardized solutions, InnerWorks creates tailored spaces for reflection and action, helping clients make sense of complexity, clarify what may be getting in the way, and move toward more effective ways of working.
Rooted in local practice and informed by international experience, InnerWorks works across cultural and geographic contexts, both in person and remotely. The task is to help organizations think clearly, work better together, and perform effectively under pressure.
What we do
Organizations are being asked to adapt faster than ever — to AI and automation, changing roles and skills, new ways of working, workforce pressures, and wider economic and geopolitical uncertainty. These changes are not only technical or strategic, they affect how people think, relate, make decisions, exercise authority, and work together.
InnerWorks brings a psychodynamic and systemic perspective to these organizational challenges. The work looks beyond the immediate problem to understand the relational, emotional, and systemic dynamics that may be influencing performance — including unclear roles, recurring conflict, resistance to change, leadership pressure, difficulty retaining people, or decisions that repeatedly become stuck.
Our TASK as organization: To turn insight into clearer decisions, stronger collaboration, more effective leadership, and better organizational performance.
Rather than applying a predetermined solution, each engagement is shaped around the situation — working with a leader, team, or wider organization to understand what is happening and identify practical ways forward.
Meet Mariana
Mariana Vargas – System-Psychodynamic Organizational Consultant
Mariana works with leaders, teams, and organizations navigating complexity, pressure, and change. Her work focuses on understanding the emotional, relational, and systemic dynamics that influence how people think, make decisions, exercise leadership, and work together.
With more than 20 years of experience across corporate, academic, and entrepreneurial settings, she brings together organizational experience with a psychodynamic and systemic perspective. Her work creates space to understand what may be happening beneath the immediate challenge and to translate that understanding into clearer decisions, stronger working relationships, and more effective organizational action.
Mariana holds a Master’s in Consulting and Leading in Organisations: Psychodynamic and Systemic Approaches from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Essex, as well as a Master of International Studies from Tecnológico de Monterrey.
She is a Full Member of ISPSO (International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations) and a Senior Associate Member of APPCIOS (Association for Psychodynamic Practice and Counselling in Organisational Settings).
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