Debbie Samuelson

After years of dedicating my career to supporting and developing creative thinkers and doers. I'm bringing this practice to the next level by helping creative talent articulate and realize their aspirational goals. If you're curious, please reach out for a confidential conversation about how we can work together. Please feel free to spread the word. synthesis-coach.com [email protected] @synthesis_coach Thank you @guillermobrotons and @irisdemouy

Up on the roof on a gorgeous evening

Spring in Downtown Brooklyn

A small but uplifting Lichtenstein show at Gagosian Chelsea followed by just one image from a great Kertesz Escher show at Bruce Silverstein.

Just a couple of images from Robbie Lawrence’s fantastic project …the working hour… for Thom Browne’s x asics collection. These images were specially curated from the beautiful originals by Aaron Stern and were on show last night at the Pierre Augustin Rose Gallery. Extraordinary creativity on display. ❤️ (Apologies for my bad photo which doesn’t do justice to the images)

Beautiful Helene Schjerfbeck show at The Met

If you’d like to explore working together in my coaching practice, I’d love to talk. Schedule an initial complimentary consultation with me at [email protected] #creative coaching #visual consulting

What can I offer the world? I have been fortunate. The world has given me much to work with. But I’ve had to work hard to find my path and claim my place in it. Through that process, the one through-line that has led to my successes are my vision and powerful relationships. Outside of recognizing and amplifying the resonant work of artists, my best offerings are supporting colleagues and friends, one relationship at a time, with intention, intelligence, humor, empathy and kindness. I’m excited to support you in your quest. Let’s talk! [email protected] synthesis-coach.com

In my coaching practice, synthesis-coach.com, I ask the following questions to get to the core of what motivates us: What do you love? What are you good at What can you offer the world? Continuing the conversation here by asking myself: What am I good at? During the height of the pandemic, while working at The NYT Magazine, I was entrusted by @kathyryan to find a funeral home that would allow the extraordinary photojournalist @philipmontgomery full access to photograph inside. After days of cold calling funeral homes all across the city, something miraculous happened. Sal Farenga, of Farenga Bros Funeral Home in the Bronx, and I connected. In those dark days of death and fear, Philip and I earned the trust of not only the Farenga brothers, who ran their family business with the utmost dignity, but that of a courageous family who allowed us to tell their story of grief, knowing we would do so with compassion and reality. The editing process was brutal, but the purpose was unquestionable. Navigating the imagery with care and sensitivity while not shirking from revealing the truth was an emotional and legal high-wire act. I received the Picture Editor of the Year award for this story, which was gratifying, but not as gratifying as the work and its purpose. What am I good at? Finding the humanity in complex issues, engendering trust and pushing the narrative forward with intellect, truth and compassion. What are you good at? Say [email protected]

In my coaching practice, @synthesis_coach , I ask the following questions to get to the core of what motivates us What do you love? What are you good at What can you offer the world? I’ll be the first to open the conversation… What do I love? I love working with creative thinkers and have been fortunate to work with so many. I was privileged to work with the extraordinary author @karl.ove.knausgard and visionary photographer @paolopellegrin whose collaboration transported us with words and images inside an awake patient’s brain for a NY Times Magazine story on conscious brain surgery, ‘An Open Mind’. Commissioning Paolo for this story; a photojournalist, humanist and artist, gaining the trust of the neurosurgeons for Paolo’s flash photography in the operating theater and connecting him with Karl Ove was beyond fulfilling. Karl Ove and Paolo met for the first time in Albania, walking into a story that was yet to unfold. And walked out with Karl Ove saying that being there with Paolo was one of the most amazing experiences of his life. From inside a sterile operating room came transcendent beauty and existential questions about life and death. I love being able to ignite the spark. What do you love? Say [email protected]

Clementine season

A preview of my new website and an invitation to creative thinkers and doers from all sectors and stages in life to partner with me in a confidential space to articulate and explore their aspirational goals. Let's talk... Say [email protected]