Sometimes you just need
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About Samuel

Experience that goes beyond the qualification.

My working life has always been about people. Long before coaching, I worked in senior retail sales, learning to read what someone really needs beneath what they first say, to earn trust quickly, and to guide a decision without ever pushing. Those instincts never left me.

I joined the NHS in the early 2000s and spent over two decades there, holding various roles across my Trust, though the work was always about people. Much of it was alongside carers in mental health services, making sure their voices and concerns were heard while they supported their loved ones through difficult times. I also worked in equality and diversity, and served as a Cultural Inclusion Ambassador. In time I undertook training in systemic family therapy, first on secondment and later within a full-time training placement in the service. That training shaped how I understand people, not in isolation, but within the relationships, families, and systems that surround them. I have drawn on those systemic principles and techniques in my practice ever since.

Alongside this, I have served on management committees for third sector organisations. That work gave me a real understanding of governance, accountability, and the particular pressures faced by mission-driven organisations running on limited resources. I know the world charity and community leaders live in, because I have sat at that table.

Today I also run a commercial business, where looking after people well is the work itself.

So the thread running through everything I have done is the same one that sits at the heart of coaching: understanding people, earning their trust, and helping them move toward what they need. My ILM Level 5 formalised a craft I have been refining my whole adult life.

Coaching, for me, is not a technique. It is a practice of drawing out what is already within a person, the counsel, the clarity, the capacity, and helping them trust it.