Coaching

have known Sarah for over 25 years.  I have benefitted from her life coaching services on numerous occasions during that period, both in my professional and personal life.  Sarah was pivotal to my success in obtaining my first full time academic post following my PhD.  She was a huge source of support and wisdom whilst I was working towards promotion to Professor in 2021.  In my personal life, Sarah helped me to navigate a relocation and separation, and to transition to life as a single parent to three young children, whilst working full-time as an academic. 

Sarah is an excellent coach. She is astute and always able to grasp the nettle of any problem that I am facing. She helps me to stay energised, motivated, and focused, to formulate action plans and overcome any obstacles in my life.  She has assisted me in spotting opportunities and fulfilling my potential.

I would highly recommend Sarah as a life coach to anyone. She will support you in developing  all areas of your life, building your confidence, and ensuring that you are proactive in reaching your goals and aspirations.

 Professor Loretta Trickett

"I have been working with Sarah over the past year and I can personally state that her work has been transformational for me. Each month we have focused on a key area of improvement and during the following weeks I start to see her coaching and training make an real impact. I've certainly not been able to throw a problem at her that she has not been able to help me work through and improve. All of her advice and coaching comes from her wealth of experience and knowledge and is always backed with real world relevant examples. I would recommend Sarah to enjoy looking for a senior management coach”

KS, Senior software dev manager

"I can't recommend Sarah highly enough. I worked with her in her role as a management coach.Her insight, intuition and effective practical techniques in helping me deal with difficult management issues were invaluable to me as a senior manager in a complex organisation. I always felt energised after our sessions, quite brilliant at what she does”

VB, Director, Local Authority

"I was extremely lucky to have Sarah as a coach on LEAD at Lancaster University, the sessions were incredible, intense, direct and character building. I faced some incredibly tough personal and business decisions all based around relationships, with Sarah's input I certainly transformed into an exceptional leader and achieved my goal to be the MD of the family business”

AP, Managing Director

"Working with Sarah quite literally changed my life. She is the best coach I've worked with and know. She has a huge influence on the way I coach and the way I do business.”

MO, business owner 

Fierce Conversations

Working with Sarah both on a professional level with Fierce and on a personal level has been revolutionary for me.

Her expert delivery of the Fierce training, which was both interesting, full of great anecdotes and useful at work where many training courses aren't, led me to contact Sarah for some help on a personal level.  Sarah got to the bottom of the surface information I gave her to find the nub of the problem and help me resolve it. 

She was patient, candid, honest and extremely supportive throughout our meetings, helping me uncover things that I couldn't have done by myself.

In many ways I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders just from talking to her and I have seen my performance at work improve and my personal situation improve as a direct result of working with her and I can't recommend her highly enough.

Helen Cartwrigh

Bare Leadership

Just wanted to add an additional thank you for the Bare Leadership sessions. I found them very insightful and have certainly supported me in day-to-day practice! Subject leaders have also been so positive about the feedback sessions you had with them in the Spring term. It was so lovely to hear how useful they found the session and wanted to pass this feedback back to you.

Rachel Thomas

Assistant Headteacher

I just wanted to say how inspiring you are as a person. Your training and support is always thought-provoking and helps me to grow as a leader. Your sense of humour and anecdotes make everything enjoyable and I have loved every session I've attended. Thank you for the positivity and directness, the hard-hitting questions and the space to think deeply about self-development. Stay forever Fierce and BARE! 

Miss Terri Strong

Assistant Headteacher

Just wanted to drop you a line to thank you for the sessions you have delivered across the year. I have had a real year of it dealing with a number of staff issues and your guidance and advice has been absolutely invaluable to me, both in terms of taking ownership of what I needed to say and being authentic and genuine, believing in what I was asking them to do!

I probably am not making much sense but I know that you have really helped me!

Thank you again and I hope we get to see you again soon.

 Andy

‘Found Bare Change inspiring, pragmatic and thought-provoking. A blend of theory and practical tools that we can use on our leadership journey’

‘Really find these sessions interesting and useful. The idea of rolling some/ all of the modules out to DHTs is a very good one indeed and I hope it can be pursued’.