Sam has been an Executive and Leadership Coach for 25 years and is a pioneer in Coaching Supervision. After discovering the benefits of Coaching Supervision during a visit to Europe in 2009, he obtained training to take this work to North America. Today, he offers supervision virtually to coaches worldwide, as well as in-person at his office in Washington, USA.
Sam was a manager and internal coach practitioner at The Boeing Company from 1988–1996. He launched his own coaching practice after leaving Boeing. He has a master’s degree in business administration from California State University – East Bay, is a graduate and past faculty member of the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, and completed the accredited diploma program at the Coaching Supervision Academy, London, United Kingdom, in 2010.
His broad understanding of how people work is enhanced through his work as a poet and photographer. In 2006, he published his first book of poetry, Fully Human.