Our Team

Catherine Beagley is the CEO of Drawing and Talking and the Mental Health Hub.

As CEO, Catherine oversees the strategic development of ongoing training and coaching within both businesses.

Personally leading training and coaching sessions for over 3000 education and mental health professionals per year. Her knowledge and capacity to train professionals in successfully delivering a joint-up approach to mental health is grounded in her experience over the last 20 years.

Marcus Adams is the Senior Training and Quality Assurance Lead for Drawing and Talking and the Mental Health Hub.

I regularly write articles on LinkedIn and I am the author of the Children’s Wellbeing Weekly newsletter which is subscribed to and read by thousands of practitioners every month. Click here to find out more.

I started my career working in schools and children's services where I found my passion for supporting children with social, emotional and mental health needs but every day I saw firsthand just how often they would slip through the cracks, how their needs weren’t met or how they were simply forgotten.

What was clear to me was how much more of an impact professionals could have if the training opportunities they had access to (and invested so much time in attending) actually made a difference!

My commitment is that no child ever gets missed, anywhere. I grew increasingly frustrated with how often our tick-box training missed the mark - sessions (or even worse, online modules) that met the requirements but didn’t create any real change. Time wasted, over and over.

Now my work focuses on creating and leading training that empowers professionals with new tools, new perspectives and ways of working. Not just being burdened with more or better than anything we've done before.

I use an engaging but rigorous approach that makes sure training goes beyond simply adding more knowledge or information but brings about new actions that make “a world where all children feel safe, loved and fulfilled” actually possible.

I truly believe in the power of one person to change a child’s life forever.

I am committed to making a difference, I enjoy challenging "the way we've always done things" and going beyond what we ever thought was possible for our children!

Some feedback from Marcus' courses:

“Really informative with great insights on how I can use tools to support my individual school. Marcus is very knowledgeable and was able to explain everything very clearly and gave everyone the opportunity to ask any questions they might have.”

“Our course leader Marcus was very knowledgeable and this came through as he was speaking. At all times he checked to make sure that we all understood what was being asked of us and clarified throughout.”

“This course was excellent - very thorough, clear and concise. The trainer was very knowledgeable. Unlike most training, I was able to immediately put this into practice."