Artgym merges with the Sanctus Group to form global people-development group
The Sanctus Group, which includes Sanctus Coaching and PushFar, today takes a significant step forward with Artgym joining the organization. The merger enhances the Group’s behavioural-science foundations and global reach for delivering coaching and mentoring at scale.
Bringing together three pioneers in their respective fields, the group will combine Artgym’s leadership and culture transformation expertise with Sanctus’s pioneering workplace coaching and PushFar’s cutting-edge mentoring technology.
Since 2004, Artgym has earned an international reputation for its award-winning work in leadership, learning and cultural transformation—underpinned by its behavioural-science methodology, Mindset + Practice + Results (M+P=R). Today, it partners with global enterprises and fast-moving scale-ups across 33 countries.
Established in 2016, Sanctus Coaching helps organizations empower their people to adapt, innovate and grow. Evolving from its roots in workplace wellbeing, Sanctus connects personal growth with organizational performance, equipping leaders and teams with the mindset and resilience required for lasting behaviour change.
Founded in 2018, PushFar has become one of the world’s leading mentoring platforms, using award-winning technology to help individuals and organizations build meaningful, measurable mentoring relationships at scale.
Why merge, and why now?
Businesses today are navigating unprecedented levels of complexity and change. Yet research consistently shows that more than 60% of transformation initiatives fail to achieve their goals. With the financial backing of Scale Up Capital, the newly formed Sanctus Group is positioned to help clients build the human advantage that delivers sustainable performance—through an integrated approach to leadership development, coaching, mentoring and culture change.
Artgym CEO and Founder, Dr. Eugene Hughes, commented on the merger: “Since starting Artgym around my kitchen table 21 years ago, the world of work has changed dramatically, but our mission has stayed the same: to ignite the power of people creating together. The merger with Sanctus amplifies this mission. Even as cognitive technologies accelerate, it’s how people think, feel and behave at work that ultimately drives results. By combining our behavioural-science methodology with world-class coaching and mentoring technology, we are better positioned to help our clients build the future of work—where people and performance thrive together.”
Group CEO of Sanctus, Stephen Read, added: “By joining forces with Artgym, we’re uniting culture transformation, coaching and mentoring technology—exactly what organizations need when their people are navigating change at speed. With human expertise, behavioural science and enterprise-grade technology behind us, we can help organizations support their people to adapt, grow and create meaningful, lasting change.”
Dr. Eugene Hughes will remain Chief Executive of Artgym and will join the Sanctus Group board as Group Chief Psychologist. Artgym Director, Douglas Brown, will take on the role of Director of Experience and Innovation. These appointments ensure continuity for clients while accelerating the group’s innovation agenda.
Together, the combined group strengthens its ability to support organizations globally with an integrated people-development ecosystem designed to help leaders, teams and cultures thrive.
About Artgym
Artgym is an award-winning leadership and culture transformation consultancy working across 33 countries. Using its M+P=R behavioural-science methodology, Artgym helps organizations unlock the collective intelligence of their people to drive meaningful and measurable transformation.
About Sanctus
Sanctus Coaching equips leaders and teams with the mindset, resilience and behavioural capability required for personal and organizational growth. With roots in workplace wellbeing, Sanctus helps organizations connect human development with business performance.
About PushFar
PushFar is a leading global mentoring platform, using award-winning technology to connect people, build effective mentoring relationships at scale and help organizations create measurable impact through mentoring.
About Scale Up Capital
Scale Up Capital is a specialist investor supporting ambitious, high-growth businesses with long-term capital and hands-on operational expertise. The firm has partnered with more than 50 scale-ups across technology, services and digital sectors.