A Canadian family business founded in 1855, The Samuel Group is a leading metals and industrial products manufacturer, processor, and distributor in North America.

Building on her longtime business and civil society experience, Kim Samuel is an author and movement-builder focused on ending social isolation and building belonging across organizations and societies.

Ms. Samuel is founder of the Belonging Forum and the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness, two research and advocacy organizations that work to build systems of belonging globally. She is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.

Ms. Samuel is the author of On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation (Abrams Press 2022), an exploration of the crisis of social isolation and humanity’s right to belong.