Samantha Clarke

Samantha Clarke is a workplace wellbeing and culture speaker, consultant and author who helps organisations improve happiness at work, leadership and resilience.

Author of Love It or Leave It: How to Be Happy at Work.
Delivered a TEDx talk titled “Are You Ready to Break Up With Work?”.
Faculty lecturer and facilitator with The School of Life.
Facilitator for The Guardian Masterclasses.
Profiled by Simon Sinek’s Optimism Company.
Participated in a session connected to the Hillary Rodham Clinton Global Challenges Summit, in conversation with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Angela Duckworth.

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Key speaking topics

Workplace happiness and fulfilment
Organisational culture
Leadership and wellbeing
Stress and anxiety at work
Resilience and chronic illness
Gross National Happiness principles
Coaching and behavioural change

Ideal for

HR and People leaders
Senior leadership teams
Culture and engagement leads
Organisations reviewing wellbeing strategy

Audience outcomes

Clear understanding of drivers of happiness at work
Practical approaches to improving workplace culture
Greater awareness of stress and resilience in professional contexts
Frameworks for aligning personal values with organisational goals

Why organisations work with Samantha Clarke

Combines authorship, teaching and consulting experience in workplace wellbeing and culture.
Brings academic training in neuroaesthetics and applied arts alongside coaching credentials.
Draws on lived experience of chronic illness to inform conversations on resilience and performance.
Trusted by global brands and institutions including LVMH, NHS, Nespresso and Virgin.

Biography

Samantha Clarke works with organisations seeking to strengthen workplace wellbeing, leadership capability and organisational culture. Her work centres on helping businesses create environments where people can thrive, sustain performance and align personal values with professional contribution.

She is the author of Love It or Leave It: How to Be Happy at Work, a practical exploration of fulfilment, purpose and professional satisfaction. Her ideas have reached global audiences through her TEDx talk, “Are You Ready to Break Up With Work?”, which examines how individuals and organisations can rethink their relationship with work.

Samantha’s expertise is grounded in both teaching and applied practice. She serves as a faculty lecturer and facilitator with The School of Life and delivers programmes for The Guardian Masterclasses. She is also profiled by Simon Sinek’s Optimism Company, reflecting her contribution to conversations around optimism, culture and meaningful work.

Her academic and professional development includes an Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic and Educational Application of the Arts and a master’s qualification in Neuroaesthetics & Global Innovation Design for Social Change, alongside training in Co-Active and ORSC coaching, MIT’s Neuroscience for Business, and certification as a Bhutanese Gross National Happiness Facilitator.

Samantha has participated in a session connected to the Hillary Rodham Clinton Global Challenges Summit, in conversation with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Angela Duckworth. Her client work spans organisations including LVMH, NHS, Nespresso and Virgin, supporting leaders and teams to embed wellbeing and cultural alignment into strategy and performance.

Drawing on lived experience of sickle cell anaemia and chronic pain, she brings a grounded perspective to resilience, stress and sustainable leadership. Her approach integrates behavioural insight, coaching practice and culture design to help senior leaders and HR professionals address the human factors that shape organisational success.

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Samantha Clarke is one of the stand-out lecturers at the School of Life. Her empathy, her understanding of the material, her verve and her wit and humanity make her a teacher anyone would want to learn from.

Alain De Botton

Founder, The School Of Life

Keen to reinvigorate our approach to employee experience, Samantha really delivered. We realised the signature drop off points where our teams are struggling instead of thriving and how to instill some preventative measures instead of waiting until it’s too late. Our employees now have a toolkit that has started to help them address behaviour changes to create more contentment working from home and our managers are using the kits to have daily/weekly check-in points.

C.W.

J.P. Morgan

Samantha recently delivered several webinar sessions for us on “Love it or Leave it” to a global audience. This is part of our focus on supporting colleagues to manage their career development. I loved the sessions, full on lots of useful, practical tips, great reflection points and delivered in a tone and pace that really embodies what we’re trying to do in supporting our colleagues. The content helped our colleagues have even better career development conversations with their line managers and really challenged listeners to know and build on their key values and motivators both inside and outside of work, allowing them to bring their true self to work and make the right career choices. I’d definitely recommend Samantha to others.

Naomi

Royal Bank Of Scotland

Samantha's breadth of experience and topics means she is able to provide real concrete actions for employees to take in order to build better well-being. Working with her is an absolute must. She is able to connect to people on a real human level and back what she is saying with science in order to really make an impact on people.

Shannon

Kayak/Opentable

Sam was such a great speaker for us - her content and style is extremely aligned to the values that we strive to embody at MADE.com and what I loved about speaking with her most is there is a great balance of deep passion and expertise in her field combined with hugely practical ways that we can all develop the skills to be happier at work. The feedback from the teams has been great! Some of the practical takeaways for us were: - For individuals: The practical check-ins, nourishment diary, how to start and end the day well - For senior leaders: Thinking about how we structure our days to support our teams to be happier, and how we continue to think about investing in our people in this important area - For teams - the team check-ins and debriefs that go beyond the task Would really recommend working with Sam - I think she can add huge value to organizations and teams in a very human and practical way!

Iihan

Made.com

In a few short months, Samantha’s toolkit has been a game-changer! It slotted in nicely with our existing Talking Performance framework but added a freshness to take our people development work to the next level. Our employees are raving about it! I love her engaging energy, zest for this work and spirit to make changes where it matters most. Working with her has definitely been a lifesaver in these difficult times.

Kirsty

ITV

It was very obvious that Samantha loves what she does and cares about helping people. She genuinely cared about the problem we were having on our team and thought very critically about what could be done to help solve it. We appreciate Samantha’s hard work and dedication. She is a very talented woman and I, and my team, enjoyed working with her.

Alexander

Shopify

I’d recommend Samantha to anyone looking to shift the paradigm and sometimes rigid frameworks around L&D. It was a fantastic experience with a speaker who brought energy, passion, thoughtfulness, attention and relevance to all the session. We look forward to working together again.

G.E.

NHS