Samantha Sutherland
With a dynamic career spanning technical leadership, innovation, and advocacy, Samantha specialises in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consulting. As a dedicated facilitator, she transforms workplace cultures, leveraging her wealth of collaborative design experience and think-tank energy.
Whether guiding a group of 90 participants through Divisional values and ways of working or facilitating a virtual workshop on workplan priorities and dependencies, Samantha consistently:
Enhances standard facilitation design to promote equality of voice and contribution.
Applies influential and compelling strategies to transparently address unconscious bias.
Fosters a sense of agency for all team members through a meaningful collaboration lens.
Samantha's passion lies in creating engaging and energising experiences that drive individuals towards achieving outcomes. She focuses on embedding positive relationships as the cornerstone for effective collaboration.
Areas of Expertise
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Workplace culture
Team building
Effective, inclusive leadership
Career development
Strategic planning
Women in the workplace – systemic barriers, bias, and navigating the systems
“Sam was wonderful to work with: she quickly got across the issues and desired outcomes and made things exceptionally easy in the preparation. Her engaging style and her ability to steer and direct conversations in a way that let everybody be heard was wonderful. We got so much more out of the day and everyone’s time than we would have if we’d tried to run the session ourselves, and I would highly recommend Sam to any organisation.”
“There's no way we could have got the outcomes we did without your excellent engagement in collaboratively designing and running the workshop. Your ability to think on your feet and quickly restructure the workshop (more than once) in response to unexpected events was particularly valuable."
-Testimonials from coaching clients