Sarah is an Ashridge accredited executive coach, with 18 years business background, who excels in supporting clients to navigate critical leadership transitions and key leadership challenges successfully. Sarah is passionate about supporting her clients to discover the renewed energy and confidence that emerges when we choose to step outside of our comfort zone, challenge the status quo and allow more of our authentic selves to be seen by others.
Clients value Sarah’s honesty, empathy and integrity. Her warm and engaging style means she is adept at bringing even the most uncomfortable truth to light in a supportive and non-confrontational way. Sarah is also very commercial and understands what drives businesses – invaluable as a coach.
Sarah has coached both established senior leaders in global and market based roles and also senior technical experts (including data science, analysis, data architecture, software development) and emerging leaders, who want to make the successful transition from expert to leader. Sarah has coached extensively within the data science, technology, marketing, retail and media sectors.
Prior to coaching, Sarah worked for 18 years as a senior executive at leading global data science company, dunnhumby. At dunnhumby, Sarah successfully consulted at board level on strategic and operational change projects in both central and market-based roles and built and managed Global, UK and US commercial, data, analysis and media teams. Sarah also lived and worked in the US for 5 years whilst at dunnhumby. Her key clients were a major international retailer (and their manufacturing clients) headquartered in the UK and a major US grocery retailer.
Sarah has an MSc in Executive Coaching (Distinction) from Ashridge Business School, a BA (Hons) in Geography from Oxford University, is an accredited coach from Ashridge Business School and is a trained Minds At Work Immunity to Change facilitator.
When not working Sarah enjoys spending time with her two sons, taking long walks either in the New Forest or along the Dorset coastline with her Vizsla Alfie and travelling with friends or exploring by herself.
