Grow your leadership, resilience, and influence, and accelerate your team performance.
TRANSFORMATIONAL COACHING AND THINKING PARTNERSHIPS.
Grow your leadership, resilience, and influence, and accelerate your team performance.
Transformational coaching and thinking partnerships.
A collaboration with us, either as an individual or as a team, will support you to think, learn, develop,
and transform.
When navigating the complexities of leading yourself and others well, having the right support is vital to challenge, nourish, and sustain you.
Our approach is about wholeness and resilience, as well as exceptional results and performance. We provide a fun, safe, and challenging space to reflect on, recharge, and reimagine your communication and leadership.
If you're looking for a thinking partner to help you reach the next level in your life and work, someone who will challenge you, nudge you, and dare you to be more, then you've come to the right place.
Coaching for Senior Leaders
Coaching is transformational.. Hear from a few of our clients.
Jenny developed the skills and confidence to positively influence staff culture and climate
I now know that I have the skills and confidence to positively influence staff culture and climate. I am happier in my work and have a greater sense of perspective when things do not turn out quite the way I was anticipating!
I have learnt strategies to solve conflict and how subtle changes in language can alter interactions and improve relationships. I am more able to accept feedback and criticism as opportunities for learning. I have also learnt practical strategies to promote positivity and inclusive discussions in meetings.
Jenny Swift, Headteacher
giles reframed his thinking
Every session was an eye-opener and thought-provoking. Sarah has the formidable ability of building trust very quickly and reshaping when needed. Coaching with Sarah was very effective – allowing me to reframe my thinking through the year. She is simply wonderful.
Giles Pruett, Executive Principal, The Arcadia School.
rupert unlocked his own potential and changed his perspective and approach to difficult conversations
I have found working with Sarah to be transformative, both in terms of unlocking my own potential and also in enabling me to look at difficult situations with a new perspective.
Sarah’s gentle but firm challenge during our sessions has opened my eyes to unhelpful habits I have picked up over the years, and given me the framework I need to challenge behaviours that – far from resolving tricky situations – can actually lead to further complications.
I entered the process hoping to learn how to manage conflict more effectively – rather than simply providing me with a set of instructions or encouraging me to adopt an artificial persona, Sarah’s approach has enabled me to build on my own existing style and characteristics as a leader whilst pushing me to listen more actively and to set explicit boundaries for a conversation.
The nature of our regular sessions meant that I was able to test these strategies in real-life situations and then reflect on the outcomes in our following session, which meant I was able to discern an almost immediate improvement.
Rupert, Assistant Master, Westminster Under School
Coaching is transformational. Hear from some of our clients.
GILES REFRAMED HIS THINKING
Every session was an eye-opener and thought-provoking. Sarah has the formidable ability of building trust very quickly and reshaping when needed. Coaching with Sarah was very effective – allowing me to reframe my thinking through the year. She is simply wonderful.
Giles Pruett, Executive Principal, The Arcadia School.
JENNY DEVELOPED THE SKILLS AND CONFIDENCE TO POSITIVELY INFLUENCE STAFF CULTURE AND CLIMATE
I now know that I have the skills and confidence to positively influence staff culture and climate. I am happier in my work and have a greater sense of perspective when things do not turn out quite the way I was anticipating!
I have learnt strategies to solve conflict and how subtle changes in language can alter interactions and improve relationships. I am more able to accept feedback and criticism as opportunities for learning. I have also learnt practical strategies to promote positivity and inclusive discussions in meetings.
Jenny Swift, Headteacher
RUPERT UNLOCKED HIS OWN POTENTIAL AND CHANGED HIS PERSPECTIVE AND APPROACH TO DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS
I have found working with Sarah to be transformative, both in terms of unlocking my own potential and also in enabling me to look at difficult situations with a new perspective.
Sarah’s gentle but firm challenge during our sessions has opened my eyes to unhelpful habits I have picked up over the years, and given me the framework I need to challenge behaviours that – far from resolving tricky situations – can actually lead to further complications.
I entered the process hoping to learn how to manage conflict more effectively – rather than simply providing me with a set of instructions or encouraging me to adopt an artificial persona, Sarah’s approach has enabled me to build on my own existing style and characteristics as a leader whilst pushing me to listen more actively and to set explicit boundaries for a conversation.
The nature of our regular sessions meant that I was able to test these strategies in real-life situations and then reflect on the outcomes in our following session, which meant I was able to discern an almost immediate improvement.
Rupert, Assistant Master, Westminster Under School
Building and sustaining a positive, high-performing team is at the heart of your school's success. And yet, despite the best intentions of team leaders, less than 20% of teams are classed as high-performing. Let's change that!
Whether it’s improving dialogue and dynamics or strengthening processes and procedures, we work with leadership teams through a blend of coaching, training, and facilitation to make teamwork work better.
Team Coaching and Facilitation
– Chris, Principal of a Bilingual School in China
We had a specific challenge in our school around how a senior team was performing together. A number of factors led to these challenges including different cultural backgrounds, experience in international education and even gender and age considerations. I was feeling frustrated that we couldn’t get more cohesion out of a team made up of talented individuals.
The exploratory work and the sessions we conducted with Sarah were transformational in how the team approached their work together and ultimately led to a marked increase in mutual respect, enjoyment of working together and ultimately productivity. Sarah’s experience in international schools meant that she gained a very confident feel for our context very quickly and understood the challenges we faced both within the group and as a group.
All members of the group expressed how supported they felt from the group and individual sessions they had with Sarah – she took time to understand their perspective in this complex mix within the team. In our group sessions she challenged us to have honest conversations with each other which led to the success of the programme.
I would have no hesitation in recommending Sarah to organisations looking to solve similar challenges.
What clients say
Descriptions may vary but our approach is consistent – a thinking partnership and professional dialogue.
A dialogue that’s always about you; your dreams, your challenges, your possibilities, and potential.
Our clients describe coaching with us in myriad ways – from ‘a spa for the soul’ and ‘like sitting in warm sunshine’ to ‘catalytic’, ‘challenging’, and ‘transformational’.
All coaching packages are bespoke to you. We hope the following will give you a flavour of just some of the possibilities.
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Perhaps, like some of our clients, you have an immediate challenge you'd like to resolve?
This may centre around a challenging conversation, situation, or conflict. Or perhaps it's an opportunity to explore thinking before an important meeting or work on an action plan.
These practical sessions start from 90 minutes and they're a popular way to begin to work with us and for existing clients too!
Single sessions
Some clients have a specific goal they wish to work on over a short time frame. For example, exploring next steps in their career, improving their confidence, or handling conflict.
Whereas others want to create regular monthly space for reflection over the course of an academic year.
We work with some clients via WhatsApp and they enjoy our training and resource vault between sessions, others are happy for just the coaching sessions.
We work with teams in multiple ways. Recent examples include:
● A 5 month engagement creating the conditions for a new senior team to be at their best.
● A 6 month programme to support a senior leadership team in conflict to heal, reimagine ways of working, and reinvigorate the team.
● A series of designed and facilitated away-days for senior teams to strategise and team build.
coaching
over time
teams
Flexible, fun, and fully bespoke.
Take the first step and schedule a connection call where we'll talk about you, your leadership, your goals, and we'll answer any questions you may have.
Following our conversation, we'll create a unique proposal tailored to you for your review.
