Building Better Leaders (and Workplaces)

From the Inside Out

Because culture, confidence and capability start within. Rooted in brain science. Always delivered with realism.

Sarah Knight

Women In Business Champion| Podcast Host: It’s Got Pockets| Keynote speaker | Human skills coach, trainer & facilitator | Co-founder: The Plot Twist (un)Awards

Forget traditional performance coaching and training. Sarah revolutionises how individuals and organisations approach excellence, delivering high-impact training and keynote workshops that creates lasting behaviour change.

Sarah’s not here to play small—or let others do it either.

An award-winning human skills trainer (the words soft skills are banned in Sarah’s lexicon), leadership facilitator and workplace culture consultant, Sarah works with organisations and individuals to do the one thing that changes everything: lead yourself better.

She’s the founder of FoundHer Fire—a membership space for experienced women in business who know real success isn’t just about strategy, it’s about self. Sarah also co-founded The Plot Twist (un)Awards, celebrating female founders and women smashing through glass ceilings with purpose, passion and joy.

Whether she’s leading programmes, coaching execs, business leaders and founders or lighting up a keynote stage, Sarah’s signature blend of evidence-based frameworks, warm grit, and real , honest insight transforms how people show up in business, leadership and life.

She’s built and led countless Women in Business and Future Female Leader programmes, always with one goal: to help women lead themselves forward, without burning out or buying into anyone else’s definition of success.

As host of the growing ‘It’s Got Pockets’ podcast, Sarah brings unfiltered stories, tools and conversations to women in business—cutting through the noise with refreshing candour, practical insight, and a wink.

Her sweet spot? Self-leadership. Helping people lead with intention, impact and energy. She’s a mindset and performance coach who knows that doing the inner work is what transforms the outer work.

And as a culture consultant, she brings a 360° lens—supporting organisations from recruitment to retention to leadership development. Her strategies are award-winning, practical, and proudly no-fluff. She guards fiercely against tokenism and works to embed long-lasting culture change that isn’t performative—it’s powerful.

You’ll find her on stages and in boardrooms, in Forbes and across leadership podcasts, always pushing the same message: lead from the inside out, back yourself boldly, and build a business or career that doesn’t cost you your wellbeing.

Organisations partner with Sarah to:

  • Embed positive behaviour change that sticks

  • Develop resilient leadership mindsets

  • Create high-performance cultures without sacrificing wellbeing

  • Transform how teams navigate change and uncertainty

  • Bring fun, energy and humour to training and facilitation

No more beige.

Sarah doesn’t do beige. With a background steeped in award-winning training, behavioural psychology, and culture change, she’s the go-to when organisations want straight-talking, energy-packed transformation that actually sticks.

A specialist in behaviour change and resilience (with a knack for cutting through the fluff), Sarah helps leaders and teams ditch the burnout, shift mindsets, and lead with clarity, confidence, and a bit more joy.

“Working with Sarah is the best investment you’ll ever make.”

  • I can’t recommend Sarah highly enough. In a world of “same old, same old” training courses that are so often all ‘fur coat and no knickers’, Sarah offers courses based on genuine knowledge. Each one enriched with realism, with humour and with her own examples from an envious CV working with and for some of the biggest brands in the UK. So for the skills to feel sane in an ever stranger world then Sarah really is the best in the business.

    Richard Smith, Owner, Big Bird Marketing

  • Sarah facilitated company-wide leadership-focussed workshops for our company. Sarah is highly engaging, knowledgeable and most importantly...funny! Colleagues of different ages and roles related to the content of the workshops, opening up and contributing to make the sessions enjoyable and inspiring.

    Rachel Poole, Strategy Manager, Continental Textiles

  • We brought three of our graduate cohorts together into our London office. The day started with an insightful and motivational development day on the topic of ‘how to maximise your potential’ delivered by the wonderful Sarah Knight. The day involved plenty of activities and tasks that centred around goal-setting, strategic plan, self-efficacy and growth mindset.

    Zia Khushund, L&D partner, Rathbones (Sarah facilitated this programme for Raise The Bar.)

  • Sarah can always be relied upon to have a big smile when I speak to her! Human and personable whilst professional with clients, I enjoy working with Sarah. Her energy is infectious, her enthusiasm contagious. She has done a number of fantastic workshops for my organisation and clients. She is one of the ‘safe pair of hands’ I use frequently. She inputs great creative ideas to all discussions. I know my clients value her input and we always get great feedback after an event.

    Jennie Marshall, Head of Learning Solutions at Raise The Bar