Robin Lockhart

Unlock Your Heart.
Transform Your Leadership.
Coaching and mentorship from grassroots to the boardroom.
Robin Lockhart equips leaders, teams, and organisations with the tools to thrive in today’s most complex challenges.

Robin began his coaching career journey working with young people and ‘grassroots’ community programmes. He carved out a reputation for having deep impact in high-stakes situations where clarity, empathy, and resilience could mean the difference between breakthroughs and breakdowns. Today, Robin brings these same principles, honed in the most demanding environments, to professionals, executives, and organisations who want more than surface-level solutions. Robin will help you get out of your head and into your heart.

Robin works with individuals, teams, and organisations who are ready to step beyond surface solutions. His coaching, mentoring, and retreats are designed for leaders who want depth, resilience, and meaningful transformation.

Why Choose Robin?

Grounded in Ubuntu & Art of Perception philosophy.
Deep philosophical foundation for authentic leadership transformation.
Proven in high-stakes environments.
Tested approaches from the most challenging leadership situations.
Track record across all sectors.
Experience spanning grassroots, government, and corporate environments.
Blends heart and strategy.
Practical, transformational approaches with lasting impact.

Robin is a highly experienced and qualified community development and youth engagement professional, as well as a community coach. He empowers individuals to shift their relationship with their thinking, fostering personal growth and resilience.

Robin’s story begins in Zambia, where the philosophy of Ubuntu, “I am because we are, and because we are, I am”, shaped his earliest understanding of community, responsibility, and togetherness.

That grounding in collective wisdom guided him into grassroots youth work in the UK, where he spent over two decades on the front line, engaging young people and communities in areas of acute need.

What began as a passion for helping others to shift their relationship with their thinking grew into a powerful practice of coaching, mentoring, and developing transformative projects that drive real change.

From these beginnings, Robin’s work expanded into high-stakes coaching and community interventions, where his ability to engage even the so-called “hard to reach” set him apart.
Through his award-winning non-profit, Catalyst In Communities, and his Art of Perception approach, he has nurtured young people, professionals, and whole communities to unlock their strengths, rewrite unhelpful narratives, and step into resilience and clarity.

His projects have been featured by the Media Internationally on a regular basis and BBC 1 made a documentary about his work in 2019 and GQ Magazine featured his work with young people struggling through being impacted by homicide, and his reputation has made him a sought-after trainer and supervisor internationally.

Today, Robin’s influence stretches far beyond local communities.
As the Commonwealth Global Youth Work Ambassador and one of the BBC’s 100 Londoners, he continues to inspire leaders, practitioners, and young change-makers across the globe.
By weaving together Ubuntu and innovative coaching methods, Robin has created a practice that doesn’t just deliver programmes, it transforms lives, ensuring individuals and communities grow stronger together, no matter how complex the challenge.