Speaking & Media
Sam is often invited to speak on trauma-informed practice, grief, and workplace wellbeing.
Here are a selection of podcasts, webinars and conversations where you can hear more about our work.
Conversations exploring trauma-informed practice, grief, and workplace wellbeing.
Trauma-Informed Practice and Psychological Safety at Work
Recorded live at the Health & Wellbeing at Work Conference, Sam and Amanda Smith (psychotherapist, trauma-informed practitioner and former NHS Head of Wellbeing), discuss trauma-informed practice, psychological safety, and the growing importance of trauma awareness in workplace wellbeing.
Drawing on experience across policing, psychotherapy, the NHS, occupational wellbeing, and trauma-informed care, they explore how trauma can shape behaviour, communication, leadership, and workplace culture, and what organisations can do to create genuinely psychologically safe workplaces.
The conversation also considers the link between trauma and wellbeing, the role of leadership in creating safe environments, and practical steps organisations of all sizes can take to become more trauma-informed.
Trauma-Informed Workplaces Explained | Sam and Amanda - YouTube
From Crime Scenes to Care: What HR Gets Wrong About Workplace Wellbeing & Bereavement
In this episode of The HR & Wellbeing Insider with Paul Connelly, Sam shares how her experience across policing, bereavement, and living with hidden disability has shaped her approach to workplace wellbeing.
The conversation explores what compassionate bereavement support looks like in practice, and why HR teams need to get closer to both their data and their people to create meaningful impact.
E.10: From Crime Scenes to Care: What HR Gets Wrong About Workplace Wellbeing & Bereavement
Let’s Chat: How to handle grief in the workplace
In conversation with Claire Sandys, Sam explores how organisations can better support people through grief at work.
They discuss the role of clear policies and processes, the UK Commission on Bereavement recommendations, and how managers can be supported to respond with confidence and care. The conversation also touches on more complex grief experiences, including trauma, inquests, and the wider contexts that shape how grief shows up at work.
Let's Chat... How to handle grief in the workplace (with Samantha Langford)
Trauma in the Workplace
In this episode of Richard Turner’s podcast, Sam draws on her background as a former Crime Scene Investigator and her work in workplace wellbeing to explore trauma in organisational settings.
The discussion covers how trauma exposure can occur through work, how it impacts individuals, and what organisations and leaders can do to respond more effectively.
The Wellbeing Chat - Trauma In the Workplace
Taboo of death in the workplace
A panel discussion covering how to approach the topic of death in the workplace, provide support and understand the practices that can be incorporated by organisations to support conversations and support those who are grieving.
#tabootalk series: Taboo of death in the workplace
Compassionate Employers - Bereavement at Work Experts Panel
A panel discussion recorded during National Grief Awareness Week, exploring how grief shows up in the workplace and what meaningful support can look like in practice.
Sam joins a multidisciplinary panel to discuss the realities of bereavement at work, the role of managers and organisations, and how responses can move beyond policy into genuinely compassionate, human support.
Compassionate Employers Bereavement at Work Experts Panel
Grief: One Size Doesn’t Fit all
A panel discussion recorded as part of National Grief Awareness Week, exploring how grief shows up differently for each of us, and what this means for workplaces seeking to support their people well.
Facilitated by Debbie Greenwood, the conversation brings together a range of perspectives to explore the impact of grief, and how organisations can respond with greater understanding, compassion, and practical support.
Sam Langford joins a panel of contributors including:
This discussion is particularly relevant for those working in HR, workplace wellbeing, leadership, and people management roles.
Grief in the Workplace: One Size Doesn’t Fit All | Expert Panel (National Grief Awareness Week)
Health and Wellbeing at Work, NEC, March 2026
Co-presented a session on trauma-informed practice in the workplace, exploring how trauma impacts employees and how leaders can respond with curiosity rather than blame.
March on Stress Conference, April 2025
Panel discussion on peer support in the workplace.
Bereavement Professionals Network
Sam regularly presents at quarterly Bereavement Professionals Network events, hosted by Finders International, offering support for those who work in the death sector and support the bereaved.
Wellbeing at Work Event, London, November 2019
Participated in a panel discussion providing case studies of peer to peer support and wellbeing initiatives from leading organisations.
Articles and written contributions
Sam writes a regular wellbeing column for the Funeral Services Journal and has also featured in the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management (ICCM) Journal.