We are a world-class interdisciplinary team blending the science and art of sustained high performance
We are a world-class interdisciplinary team with deep expertise in organizational transformation, human resources strategy, leadership and talent development, systemic coaching, design thinking, neuroscience, and data science.
Our scientists have created the world’s only validated measure of wellbeing, the Mind Health Quotient (MHQ), which has provided the largest scale data of its kind. This has led us to an undeniable conclusion – creating a culture of good mind health is the cornerstone for sustained high performance.
We serve organizations that aspire to create a lasting culture of high performance, regardless of their size or stage of development.
Rahul co-founded Samuh from a deep belief that organizations prosper when their people thrive. His three decade career as a global Human Resources leader has been dedicated to helping people excel at work and make a positive impact on businesses and society. Rahul’s leadership experiences of large, globally distributed workforces and complex organizational transformations, alongside his work on the Board of Sapien Labs, has informed the mission and direction of Samuh.
Previously, Rahul was the Chief HR Officer for Accenture Technology, leading HR for Accenture’s largest business which employed over 375,000 people. Living in India, Singapore and his current base in New York, Rahul has held various roles at Accenture including Global Head of Talent, Chief Learning Officer, Global Head of HR Strategy and Head of HR, India. During this journey, he crafted a new approach to leadership development, implemented an AI based solution to measuring skills, helped launch and integrate Accenture’s platform business, led the largest scale successful re-imagination of performance management in the world, and created multiple innovations in digital learning and global learning centers. As the first HR Director in India, Rahul led through a phase of dramatic growth as Accenture grew from 200 people to almost 40,000 in seven years.
Rahul has served on the boards of Covenant House International, a non-profit dedicated to eradicating youth homelessness and Madura Microfinance, which provided micro-loans across rural India. Rahul holds a master’s degree in Human Resources from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (Pune, India) and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from University of Delhi.
A known thought leader, Rahul’s work has received wide recognition including as a two-time recipient of the First-Place CLO Learning Elite Award; eight patents in the U.S., Canada, Australia, South Africa, and India; and a Harvard Business School case study on hyper-growth in India. He is a sought-after speaker at conferences and top academic institutions around the world.
Calina co-founded Samuh to help organizations and teams create energizing work environments that foster healthy belonging. She believes work should be a fun and stimulating way to spend the better part of your day.
Calina is a talent consultant, systemic coach, and facilitator, with two decades of experience across industries, including start-ups, NGOs, and multinational corporations. Her systemic approach empowers individuals and teams to build environments that benefit both people and organizations.
Beyond serving large organizations like Hilton and Accenture in agile teams focused on high impact initiatives, a significant part of Calina’s work includes partnering with tight knit teams to guide them from promising ideas to achieving collective impact. She has done this successfully by partnering with Ashoka, Stockholm Innovation Bootcamp, Teach for Romania, TEDx Bucharest, Steps for Change and Training Cafe.
When working with individuals, Calina focuses on assisting people to find their place in the systems they belong to, connect with their resources and step into their authority as they become more aware of the systemic dynamics that might impact their work. Through individual coaching, Calina serves executive leaders, TEDx speakers, entrepreneurs and founders.
Calina holds certifications as an EMCC Practitioner Coach, Design Thinking Practitioner, and is an accredited Trainer. Completing the Systemic Coaching & Constellations Program has enhanced her expertise in organizational coaching and leadership development.
She also mentors and develops emerging coaches and facilitators, guiding them through structured programs and mentorships that foster growth and impact. Her influence has shaped coaching communities that nurture talent and drive progress across organizations.
Tara is the Founder and Board Member of Sapien Labs, which she created as a way to bring together diverse disciplines and domains to build a deep, holistic and global understanding of our evolving brain and mind that can impact our individual and societal health and wellbeing in practical and positive ways.
Over the last decades she has looked for insights into the nature of brain and mind across species and from multiple perspectives. From this multifaceted view she takes a complex systems perspective and is guided by two overarching insights: that the integrated system is far more than the sum of its parts, and that our changing environment is driving an evolving divergence of brain physiology among us with health and societal consequences that are more profound than we have appreciated.
Until March 2021, Tara also led Madura Microfinance building it from its founding into an organization with 3,000 people reaching into over 25,000 villages and small towns across India to provide small loans to over a million people each year. At Madura she pioneered data and analytical frameworks to enable insights into economic outcomes in these data dark ecosystems, and lived the unique challenges of building an organization that integrates across the full breadth of humanity from the very poorest, least educated and off-grid to the wealthy, educated and technology savvy. Altogether this has contributed to a global approach to science that is grounded in real-world challenges and implementation.
Tara has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Stanford University, a B.A. in Mathematics from Brandeis University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Previously she was also a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the Section on Critical Brain Dynamics, a Visiting Scientist at the National Center for Biological Sciences in India and has worked in Strategic Scientific Planning at Bristol Myers-Squibb.
Mike Gabour co-founded and leads several innovative ventures from a deep belief that technology and data can create transformative human experiences. His career spans nearly two decades focused on leveraging data science, AI, and analytics to drive organizational transformation and empower individuals to reach their full potential.
As Global Analytics Strategy & Design Lead at Accenture, Mike led a significant team driving employee experience for professionals worldwide. His innovations have revolutionized how organizations approach talent development and workforce planning. Mike co-authored multiple patents with MIT and The University of Chicago, creating groundbreaking solutions that have transformed recruiting practices and helped employees navigate career opportunities in an evolving digital landscape. His “Next Horizon Skills” and “Demand Driven Skilling” products have fundamentally changed how organizations invest in future-ready workforces, shaping strategic investment decisions across the enterprise.
Beyond his corporate leadership, Mike is deeply committed to social impact and innovation. He founded Koinonia Ventures, a micro-lending organization empowering marginalized entrepreneurs in Egypt, creating generational wealth for families across the region. An avid sailor and craftsman, Mike designed and built his own wooden boat from mahogany and red cedar, and went on to invent Sona, an app enabling blind sailors to race and navigate autonomously. His commitment to social causes extends to his board service with two organizations: The Littlest Lamb, an orphanage near Cairo that transforms the lives of orphaned and at-risk children through comprehensive care and education, and Lila, which preserves sacred cultural traditions through immersive travel experiences and documentary films.
Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical/Biomedical Engineering from Northeastern University and multiple professional certifications in Strategic Workforce Planning and Design Thinking. His work has garnered numerous accolades, including multiple Brandon Hall Group Human Capital Management Excellence Awards: Gold for Future of Work, Excellence in Talent Management, and Excellence in Technology. A sought-after thought leader, Mike regularly shares his insights as a guest lecturer at Harvard and keynote speaker at Business Intelligence and HR Tech conferences.
