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Michael Graham is a solicitor and senior leader with over 35 years’ experience in local government legal services. He has led large legal and governance teams across multiple councils, at his most recent substantive role, heading a department of 130 staff with a combined budget of over £10 million. Alongside his legal career he holds an MBA from Henley Business School and has long been interested in leadership development as a lever for organisational change.

Morgan Lewis is a Sports Coach who uses SF in grassroots sport and with one professional football club. He also uses SF as a telephone volunteer with a Liverpool-based mental health service.

Natasha is the Deputy Manager and Community Wellbeing Lead for Learning Space, a children and young people’s mental health charity based in Surrey, England. She has twenty years of experience in youth and community work and completed her MA in Youth and Community Studies in 2016. She completed her advanced certificate in SF with BRIEF in 2022 and was recently accredited by the UKASFP as an accredited SF practitioner. Natasha is passionate about bringing together SF and participation to co-produce innovative early help and mental health services, putting the child’s voice, young person and family at the centre.

We regret that Owen passed away in January 2026 after an illness. He was a great user of the SF Approach in his later work as a careers adviser. He was also an avid supporter of SFiO events and always had insights to share, based on his extensive reading. We shall miss him. Owen Charnley has over 35 years in the military, financial and training environments. All of these roles had responsibilities for training, coaching, mentoring and facilitation.

After successful careers in journalism for Thomsons and as a comedy producer for BBC Radio, I have been a trainer, facilitator, keynote speaker, author and consultant. SF has been central to my work for many years. The concepts of SFBT were so inspiring that they not only informed my own practice, but I was determined to promote them to the wider world. This has included writing three books about SF: The Solutions Focus, co-authored with Mark McKergow, and Positively Speaking and The Management Pocketbook of Resilience, co-authored with Janine Waldman.

Rob Rave works as a team and executive coach and facilitator. Working in a top 4 global professional service firm Rob provides 1 :1 executive coaching for Executive Directors and Partners on how to effectively transition into new roles and to deliver step changes in performance (and relationships) He also has worked with teams /individuals from Vodafone , Ernst and Young , Grant Thornton, Travis Perkins, Wickes, Eddisons at Yahoo , Cushman Wakefield, Capital Hospitals Trust. Thermofisher Scientific, Phardia , Vision Capital , Change Capital, Hera Capital and Lion Capital.

I’ve been using SF since 1993, training managers and coaches in SF since 2005, mainly with Mark McKergow and Jenny Clarke’s SFWork, and Kirsten Dierolf’s Solutions Academy. I’ve created a number of SF models, including iFLOW Time Mastery, RADAR anti-procrastination, MAGIC negotiation, R4 Delegation, Brief Mindfulness stress reduction/focus enhancement and the ORA solution focus lens. My current focus is on applying SF to the world of Agile software development and Agile Transformation. In this world I’ve changed my name (back) to Roy Marriott – but many of you know me by my Buddhist name of Shakya Kumara.

Sarah is Senior Mentor Children and Young People, of Learning Space, a children and young people’s mental health charity based in Surrey, England. Sarah is an experienced Parent Coach who shares Listening and Connection tools to support great relationships. A qualified youth worker and senior mentor with Learning Space, Sarah has worked with children, young people and parents for ten years in various settings, including secondary schools and the private sector. 

Sarah Cudmore has co-organised SOLWorld retreats and is a frequent guest at our SFiO Fika’s on every thrid Sunday of the month.

The UK SFiO Chapter holds three meetings each year in London and/or in Leeds. We currently focus our meetings around a workshop of around 1.5 to 2 hours in length with some great speakers.