About Sanctus Coaching, Mentoring, and Listening

About The Sanctus Group

In 2024 ScaleUp Capital combined human-centric companies to form the Sanctus Group. Our aim is to support businesses and their employees through the bad times and the good. We help give underrepresented employees a voice; teach managers how to become effective people leaders; support executives to become better communicators and empower their teams. Whether things feel like plain sailing or times are tough, one of our solutions could help your business. Discover what you team could achieve with our help. Get in touch today.

Sanctus Coaching

Sanctus was founded in 2016 by James Routledge and George Bettany. It was inspired by a post written by James about mental health in startups. He was feeling burned out and felt like he had no one to talk to about it. And so, Sanctus coaching, and our coaching philosophy, was born.

The Sanctus Coaching model and practice was one of the first structured, regulated coaching models in the world for work. It continues to be one of the most robust.

Its unique drop-in coaching model revolutionized and democratized coaching in the workplace. It made it so that anyone, anywhere, could access coaching through their work if they needed it.

Alongside that, it created several coaching programs designed to support employee growth including Connected Leadership, Sanctus Boost, and Connect & Reflect workshops.

Sanctus Coaches are accredited by

PushFar Mentoring

PushFar, a world-leading mentoring platform, was founded by Ed Johnson and Gabriel Sirbu in 2018. The idea of PushFar came from CEO and Co-Founder Ed Johnson, who was unable to find a mentor to help him in his career and realised many organisations were having difficulties scaling and building mentoring programmes.

PushFar’s mission is to make mentoring more accessible, effective and empowering for everyone.

PushFar’s innovative technology allows organisations to scale, customise, track and create thriving mentoring programmes that help employees succeed in their careers with ease.

PushFar’s mentoring software has helped hundreds of leading brands across the globe bring employees together to learn, connect and share fresh perspectives, helping create a learning culture where employees can truly thrive.

To make mentoring more accessible, PushFar also has a completely free open network with over 100,000 professionals, looking to mentor, be mentored or do both. Powering over 1,500,000+ hours of mentoring, PushFar’s all-in-one platform has helped transform the lives of thousands of professionals.

So, why Sanctus?

Nowhere else takes our unique approach to employee coaching and mentoring. You can use our unique mentor matching algorithm to help employees find the right mentor for them at the right time, and you can support employees wherever they are in their career journey and whatever they might be going through with objective empathetic coaching.

We’re here for you and your employees through the good and the bad times, you can have the difficult conversations with ease, employees can overcome whatever in their life might be holding them back in their career, and your business can continue to grow with engaged, passionate, purposeful employees.

What our clients say

"As always, whatever place you come into a session you always leave clearer. The sessions are invaluable to my life & look forward to them each month."

"Excellent. The session had a huge impact. My confidence, self respect and knowing what I want is all returning. I was a little lost but feeling more like my 'old self' again, which is exactly what I needed."

"It was a great space to speak openly and honestly and was a great reminder that I'm stronger than I think, even when I think I'm not. "

"My Sanctus coach is a very capable and exceptional coach. I always enjoy and look forward to my sessions with her. "

Get in touch and align your workplace with purpose

Free up time for Leadership and HR. Provide them with the expert service and software tools to deliver your strategy.
Close the gap. Convert discussions into actionable insights to boost your employer brand, employee engagement and performance.
Invest in professional growth. Support your people how they need it, when they need it, to make sure they bring their best selves to work.
Get the best of both worlds without compromise. Achieve your business objectives through boosting employee happiness.