Samantha Graham, the founder of State of Mind, has a PhD in management education & climate communication. For decades she was an organisational development consultant, designing and delivering leadership education for cultural change in blue chip companies in Australia. In the design and delivery of numerous programs she has had the privilege of working with executive and senior leadership teams across a range of sectors, including banking & finance, FMCG, construction, public transport, insurance, advertising, and broadcasting.

Following a recent move to the UK she turned to playwriting as a means of innovating in the DEI and culture change space. Her aim was to create more effective, multi-sensorial interventions that simultaneously inform, inspire and challenge, igniting greater capacity and willingness to make systemic and personal change. 

Theatre has proven a brilliant format as it provides a non-confrontational yet engaging medium by which to witness dynamics that can be hard to see. Making the invisible visible is part of her remit.

Her dynamic productions feature immersive projection and live music and have evolved over two seasons at Edinburgh Fringe. Adaptation: Enough Already was launched in London in March this year with Dr Gabor Maté in attendance for the Q & A.