The first time I heard of Sanctus I was working in recruitment. I had a full head of hair and no beard. Precisely the opposite of how you find me today. It was either 2016 or 2017. I can’t remember exactly when or what it was specifically but it would’ve been the messaging at the...

I’ve wanted to write a founder’s journal for a while, but I’ve never really gotten around to it. I am imagining writing this in a nice moleskine Sanctus branded journal.  Today I want to write about how I’ve changed, which is about me, as you might gather. Yet I also want to make some more...

Absolutely typical that the moment you sit down to write about motivation, it disappears completely. I say that like I should be surprised. Motivation’s been in short supply the last few years, and it’s not just me saying it. The pandemic left us with a condition called “languishing”. Something the New York Times referred to...

Hey! I’m Nathalie. I’ve joined Sanctus as Chief Coaching Officer. I’ll be supporting our coaching practice, operations, and partner teams to build and shape our brilliant community of Coaches to deliver the best possible experience to our clients and their employees.  So, why Sanctus? To quote one of Montaigne’s most famous sentences: “Parce que c’était...

Since March 2020 I feel like I’ve lived in almost constant uncertainty.  My world was spinning comfortably on its axis and then a global health pandemic completely knocked it off, since then my world has been rolling around, lost.  Life as I knew it vanished and a new life emerged. There was the stress, uncertainty...

Hi, I’m Bob, Sanctus’s Chairman. I joined Sanctus this summer because I wanted to get involved with something that really matters to business and society. Coaching does that – and Sanctus is, in my newly biased opinion, seriously good at it. Coaching comes in many forms. I’m no expert but I’ve had cause to benefit...

I am in the queue at my local off licence eavesdropping on the woman in front of me who, apparently not for the first time this week, is there to top up her gas. How much she pays goes up every week, and this week is about twice what it was the week before. The...

We spend an awful lot of time at work. Most of us, the bulk of our waking hours. And when we’re happy there, chances are we’ll be happy in other areas of our lives too. There’s studies that back this up and it’s been observed that happy people are typically more engaged, productive, and creative....

Coaching has been shown to have an effect on 5 key individual outcome categories, according to an analysis of research conducted by the University of Reading: “Our findings suggest that the answer to our question (whether workplace coaching was effective in terms of delivering individual learning and development) is yes, and our analyses indicated that...

Aged 20 I sat in a room filled with entrepreneurs and introduced myself. I was surrounded by other founders older than me and more experienced than me. Two had worked at Facebook and Google. Others had started businesses before. Most had families with kids. I was 20 and still learning how to cook and clean...