In October 2016 Steve transitioned from a life within Corporate HR and Consultancy to start the Inner Child Ltd company and community, now trading as iGallos®, focused around bringing his own lived experiences, and the experiences of people around him at work and socially, combined with his Global and Regional HR leadership background, to do what he could to challenge the way we as a society and in the working world manage those with mental ill health. He now works with leaders, HR professionals and teams all around the world in companies of all sizes and sectors.

 

Steve is a UK-based Organisational Mental Health Specialist, therapeutic counsellor, coach and mentor dedicated to helping clients navigate the complexities of the life condition. With a compassionate, curious and varied approach, walking alongside each other to explore, and find clarity and meaning.

Steve has spent over thirty years working at the intersection of human experience and organisational systems. As a Senior HR leader, as a practitioner, and as someone who has done his own deep work and knows what being in distress can cost.

 

He is trained in:

• Advanced Transactional Analysis - Counselling and Organisational, and is currently studying as a candidate for his CTA (Certified Transactional Analyst)

• Somatic (body oriented) approaches

• Coaching Constellations

• Global Social Witnessing and Resilience facilitation

• Trauma Informed Leadership, and other trauma-informed approaches

• Mental Health First Aid England Instructor Member

• ..and is a Lego Serious Play™ Master Practitioner

 

Through these supporting frameworks and with genuine curiosity, and positive mindset towards health, he works globally with organisations around establishing mentally healthy cultures.

 

Steve is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and other global organisations and communities working for the betterment of our societies and the planet.

 

He is the co-author of Unlocked curated by Sadie Restorick, and author of the soon to be published Haelen: On Wholing, Work, and Choosing to Live.

He also works 1:1 with individuals on the full range of what it means to be a person carrying a life: relationship, identity, loss, transition, purpose, and the specific pressures of leadership and organisational life. He works from a position of curiosity and hope, knowing the territory, having walked it, and finding it, still, on most days, genuinely interesting!

 

Steve is a member of the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA), is in regular ongoing training, counselling supervision and personal therapy, and works with and adheres to a strict Ethical Framework derived from the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights that has the principles of: Respect, Responsibility, Appropriate Protection, Commitment In Relationship, and Empowerment.