Meet Sarah.
Behaviour changemaker | Business & mindset coach | Keynote speaker | Human skills & leadership trainer & facilitator | ADHD workplace champion
Sarah is a behaviour changemaker, a business & mindset coach, human skills & leadership trainer & facilitator and an ADHD workplace champion.
As an award-winning workplace culture consultant, a L&D trainer and facilitator, Sarah is a business change maker working with businesses to develop and deliver people first strategies building the mindset, behaviours and human skills of the people in the business to supercharge productivity, profit margins; and crucially the mental well-being of individuals.
As a business changemaker, she works with business to define their people strategies, devising strategies across the whole talent ecology system developing award-winning workplace culture and leadership strategies that are practical, real and achieve results. She guards fiercely against tokenism and believes passionately in helping all individuals lead themselves forward to manage their own success strategies.
Sarah brings a coaching-led leadership style to organisations helping them coach changing mindset, behaviours and habits. She also provides 1:1 coaching to individuals at differing stages of their careers and life stage from senior leadership teams to midlife women negotiating a blinking difficult life stage.
As a regular on the conference circuit and contributor to publications including being featured in Forbes, Sarah is passionate (and vocal) about helping to equip the workforce of tomorrow with the employability skills they need to harness success and helping all individuals bridge the skills gap regardless of gender, background or belief system.
She provides a healthy dose of sanity and realism in managing the world of work helping many organisations bridge the gap between the new world of working and the old school.
She’s spearheaded, developed and run many ‘Women in Leadership’ programmes determined to help women lead themselves forward in business and break the bias. Sarah also runs ‘Ministry of Midlife’ an online platform designed to help women in midlife bridge the barriers and build a performance mindset for personal and professional development.
Sarah has developed The Elastic Culture™️ for fast growth companies. The framework looks at how to build and define a culture that retains its original shape if it gets stretched with people, processes and systems.
Her Talent Development Academy today provides a range of different training, coaching and mentoring programmes suited to different levels of experience and expertise - all based on up-skilling individuals, business owners, entrepreneurs, freelance consultants and, of course, continuing to work with businesses across Europe to develop their in-house talent.
My Story:
Over the last 22 years I’ve worked with business and individuals starting my career in PR and marcomms. I’ve worked with some pretty huge businesses from the NHS, to M&S, to Princes Food, to Hoover to Lambrini (yes I was part of the marketing team that brought the UK ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ before then having to sit before the Health Select Committee talking about the dangers of such advertising with young minds).
Working in leadership roles across business, I realised that what I really cared about was the people, the individuals, helping them develop, grow and thrive in work and beyond. I realised that at the heart of every business was the people and yet so often they were the forgotten essential ingredient to success.
Today I work as a business consultant, a coach, a mentor, a trainer and facilitator and speaker.
I started running a business when I was 27 weeks pregnant with my now nearly 22 year old. I was working for a major telecomms company that went bump when the market crashed. I had to make my team of 50 redundant, write the press statements and make myself redundant. It taught me a lot about people, about kindness, about teams. My team all took the news with dignity, understanding as I individually talked to every single one of them. I still remember that many of them were more concerned about what I was going to do with my bump and no job; and my marketing manager is still a great friend today. The bosses of the company not so much – and again taught me how I didn’t want to be.
And as much as I tried to convince myself otherwise, it turned out that the bump was not a whole heap of vanilla slices but a daughter. So I was up the duff, without a job feeling all sorts of panic wondering if someone could just come and adult for me for a bit because it all felt a bit too big (and that wasn’t just the size of my belly), but it turned out it was on me.
And if I wanted to pay the mortgage, I needed to do something about it.
So I set up a business which back then was a PR and marketing consultancy. Six weeks after 'popping' out the daughter (she was also 4 weeks early) I was running an event with my mum sat in the car outside holding the screaming banshee whilst I ran out in between stuff to clamp her on my boob before going back to work. There was no business plan, no forecasting - just a need to pay the mortgage and crack the feck on...which has mainly been my ongoing mantra.
Why am I oversharing?
Because sharing is human – and humans need to build a know, like and trust factor to work together and because my story has determined what I do today.
“Sarah is a fantastic leadership coach - she really upped my own energy and willpower to succeed - but she also asked the hard questions to make sure that I was exploring every avenue of my business and ideas. She added a huge amount of value and I would recommend her if you’re looking to get to the heart of a problem and find a solution.”
“I’m a shouty mum of two kidults – and this has also defined how and why I run my business”
Over the last 22 years, the business has morphed and evolved through consultancy into contracting going into organisations to help them build social, PR and content teams and then around 8 years ago I realised that what I loved was the training and developing of the people in the business so I trained as a NLP practitioner and advanced coach and started evolving the business into what it is today - a training and learning organisation with a passion for personal development - because if you focus on your personal development; if you invest in your mindset, behaviours and habits you will supercharge your professional development and your thriving skills in life.
My road to here has taught me how to do things, it’s definitely taught me how not to do things. It’s also gifted me a real insight into what people need and my own subsequent training and development has supercharged me into a world of learning, development and change that allows me to work with brilliantly talented humans developing mindset, behaviours, belief systems and processes that help not hinder.
I’ve won a raft of awards for my work with organisations on their workplace culture and I’m a judge on the UK Company Culture Awards.
Personally, I guard fiercely against tokenism and believe passionately in helping all individuals lead themselves forward to manage their own success strategies.
I’m a shouty mum of two kidults – and this has also defined how and why I run my business. I’m a mum first, it’s my favourite job, it’s why I was put on this earth and I believe that we can celebrate our roles as parents as well as showing we can work hard and with joy – it’s what makes us who we are and gives us our why in work. We don’t have to be one or the other, we can be both.
And I still believe I have a book in me.
How I can work with you
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Training, Development & Coaching
Explore my work with Leaders, Teams & Workplace Culture.
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Ministry of Midlife
Coaching support for midlife women in business and in their personal lives.
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Speaking & Hosting
Book Sarah to speak at an event, in your office or for your network