Who I Am

I’m Solomon Adams.

Designer, Facilitator & Consultant. I work across education, youth, arts and community settings, helping organisations build programmes and systems that actually work and that people genuinely want to be part of.

I’ve spent over a decade doing this work.

Award-winning practice grounded in real delivery: designing artist development programmes, co-designing and facilitating healing and wellbeing retreats for men, running employability and youth leadership initiatives, and advising organisations on programme design and strategy.

I work with schools, colleges, arts organisations, charities and local authorities. And I’ve learned something consistent across all of it: when you design from a place of trust in people’s capacity, everything changes.

I’m also Co-Founder and Managing Director of Movement Makers CIC, a youth empowerment and creative organisation.

Outside work, I make music, spend time in nature, and think a lot about systems, culture and how change actually happens.

I’m also Co-Founder and Managing Director of Movement Makers CIC, a youth empowerment and creative organisation.

Outside work, I make music, spend time in nature, and think a lot about systems, culture and how change actually happens.

Solomon Adams, award-winning educator, facilitator and consultant

Why This Matters

I believe people don’t need saving. They already carry creativity, capability and wisdom. My work helps them and the organisations supporting them—access those things.

That belief shapes everything I do. It means designing learning experiences that start from what people have, not what they lack. It means creating space for people to express who they actually are, not who they’re supposed to become. It means building structures that trust young people’s intelligence and lived experience.

This isn’t soft work. It’s strategic. Because when you design from that place – honouring people’s capacity, not fixing their deficits, the work lasts. People stay engaged. They move differently.

Solomon Adams speaking on stage at the AMPLIFY showcase at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre

Where This Comes From

Education worked for me early on. But adolescence made me experimental and explorative, and a lot of adults holding traditional frameworks had no room for who I was becoming.

Hip Hop changed that. It gave me a way to be authentically myself while still being intelligent. It gave me a community where I could express, reinvent, and make real change.

That pushed me into youth work. Not because young people need saving, but because I’d seen what happens when you give them space, the right questions, and someone who actually trusts their capability. Everything shifts.

That led me to design. Because facilitation when it’s real, responsive and relational teaches something crucial: you can’t scale good work without good thinking about the work.

You need clarity on what you’re trying to do, intentionality about how you do it, and frameworks that let other people deliver it without burning out.

So I started designing the systems behind the facilitation. Methodologies. Curricula. Programmes. Structures that could hold good practice and let it breathe.

My Vision

A world where learning starts from what people have, not what they lack. 

Where creativity isn’t a luxury or an afterthought, but part of how we think, grow and solve problems together in schools, in communities, in organisations, in life.

My Purpose

To create the conditions where people feel seen, capable and confident. Whether I’m working with young people, a group of men or a whole organisation, my purpose is the same: help people trust what they already know, and build from there.

“A deeply passionate and highly skilled educator. His commitment to his craft is inspiring and he leaves such an impact on whoever he works with. He truly is a creative visionary.”
— James Aidoo, Founder, Innerscope (award winning coaching company)
Solomon Adams with participants on the final day of the Mandem's Quarters retreat, a healing space for Black and Brown men
The final day of Mandem's Quarters — a retreat for Black and Brown men to heal, process and build together, which I co-designed and led the facilitation of as part of my Movement Makers work.
Solomon Adams with young people at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre after their Amplify showcase performance
Showcase night for AMPLIFY at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre — a six-week artist development programme I designed and delivered for emerging artists from global majority backgrounds, funded by Warner Music Group.

Who I Work With

I work with people who hold responsibility for others’ learning, wellbeing and growth and want to do that work well. That includes:

  • School and college leaders — headteachers, deputy heads, heads of department and pastoral leads looking for training, curriculum design or a fresh approach to engagement
  • University staff — programme leaders, widening participation teams and student experience leads
  • Arts and cultural organisations — learning and engagement managers, creative directors and producers building education or community programmes
  • Youth and community organisations — youth work managers, charity CEOs and programme designers who want provision that genuinely lands with young people
  • Local authorities and commissioners — those shaping youth strategy, creative health and community development
  • Leaders and teams — anyone planning an away day, strategy session or co-design process that needs skilled, creative facilitation

And if you don’t see your role here but something resonates… get in touch anyway.

The best projects rarely start with a job title.

Every good piece of work I’ve done started with a conversation.

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