In service to your aims, committed to your success
In service to your aims, committed to your success
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Our Mission
Work can certainly be challenging at times, yet every situation provides an opportunity for growth and transformation. Each day, we encounter people navigating different aspects of work—whether it’s improving performance, managing change, shaping team culture or building stronger relationships. With the right mindset, proactive behaviours, and effective tools, these challenges become catalysts for success, confidence, and celebration. This is the heart of our mission -
Empowering individuals and businesses to thrive, grow, and achieve extraordinary personal and professional success
Our values
Well you've probably guessed, that we're not called 'Humanistics' by accident... Communication and relationship is at the heart of what we do
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People

People are a valuable resource: Investing in them delivers exponential benefits
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Relationships

Healthy relationships are essential for a thriving, high performance culture
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Comms

Communication has the power to elevate and transform experiences and relationships
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Creativity

Creativity brings energy, vibrancy, solutions and innovation to any situation
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Learning

Life-long learning keeps us staying fresh, relevant, capable and confident
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Our history

Our story began in March 1999, at a time when organisations were spending £ millions on new processes and technologies whilst at the same time reducing their people development budget

We wanted to reverse this trend by proving beyond any doubt that targeted investment in the development of people and teams not only delivers better results, but actually pays for itself – often within weeks!

The spark was Elaina Smith, leadership development consultant and executive coach. Elaina took her passion for designing, implementing and embedding high impact, deeply personal development journeys for leaders and coaches, and infused this with Humanistic principles of mutual respect, trust and personal responsibility to launch Humanistics

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People without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots

Marcus Garvey

Meet the team
Elaina Smith and Susan Dodson are the partnership behind Humanistics. They've worked together for over 20 years, designing, implementing and embedding development solutions
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MEET ELAINAElaina Smith

Accredited Coach, Facilitator, Coach Trainer and Supervisor

Elaina has over 30 years’ consultancy experience in UK, Europe and UAE, working with leaders and their teams to transform mindset, behaviour, performance and results

Her passion is in supporting the development of inspiring workplace environments where people thrive and achieve outstanding personal and professional success

She’s best known for creating high impact, deeply personal development journeys for leaders, coaches and customer facing teams, which translate into commercial returns

Elaina has spent several years studying organisational psychology and this is strongly reflected in her work

MEET SUSANSusan Dodson

Accredited Coach, Facilitator, Coach Trainer and Supervisor

Susan has 30 years’ experience as a business consultant, working in change/implementation contexts for blue-chips across industry in the UK and India

As programme lead she’s specified, designed and implemented many people transformation initiatives, which have delivered a spectrum of commercial uplifts e.g. 50% increase in target behaviours (leadership programme for a building society); 7% uplift in Employee engagement scores (coaching programme for a large bank)

She specialises in unlocking the secrets of human change, through focusing on quality of communication, personal potency and business relationships, underpinned by 3 years of psychology training

MEET SUSANSusan Dodson

Accredited Coach, Facilitator, Coach Trainer and Supervisor

Susan has 30 years’ experience as a business consultant, working in change/implementation contexts for blue-chips across industry in the UK and India

As programme lead she’s specified, designed and implemented many people transformation initiatives, which have delivered a spectrum of commercial uplifts e.g. 50% increase in target behaviours (leadership programme for a building society); 7% uplift in Employee engagement scores (coaching programme for a large bank)

She specialises in unlocking the secrets of human change, through focusing on quality of communication, personal potency and business relationships, underpinned by 3 years of psychology training
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Our network
We have access to an exceptionally talented and experienced group of people that we’re proud to have in our network. They allow us to configure the perfect team to meet any client assignment
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I can’t get this quality of people and this standard of delivery at this price from any other supplier

Head of Customer Experience, Barclays Bank