Sarah’s keen understanding of organizations and their people derive from a wide variety of work experiences in both the public and private sectors. An organizational consultant and facilitator for the past 20 years, Sarah’s areas of expertise include: leadership development, executive coaching, meeting design and facilitation, diversity and cultural competence, conflict management, team building, strategic planning and change management. She is known for her clear-sightedness and effortless ability to teach complex ideas and for bringing creativity and presence to her work with clients.
Sarah is a Certified Presence Based© Coach, a PCC with the International Coach Federation and a senior faculty of the Presence Based Coach Training. Her coaching practice compliments her consulting work, though she also has a stand-alone coaching practice with coaching clients from corporate, non-profit and higher education sectors. She is an affiliated coach with Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and has presented on Cultivating Resilience and Avoiding Burnout for the Society of Gynecologic Oncology’s national conference in 2016. She is also a guest faculty member in the Career Development for Women Leader’s program at Wake Forest University.
Sarah also works in the field of Diversity and Inclusion and has worked with The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, InterAction Consulting, The PRIME Institute (Partners Reaching to Improve Multicultural Education), Fellowship Farm, and Training for Change. Locally she was a member of the PRIME Diversity Training Team at Abington Memorial Hospital in Abington, PA, and she has working with students, faculty and staff at Bryn Mawr College on their social justice curriculum and LEAP leadership development program. She was part of a team working on a system wide culture change project with Merck and Co. as well as Allstate Insurance and Ecolab. She is the lead facilitator of the White People Confronting Racism workshop series at Training for Change in Philadelphia and is a co-founder and facilitator of The Race Institute for K12 Educators.
As a graduate of Lehigh University, Sarah’s first career was as a structural engineer in New York City. She no longer practices engineering, but she incorporates problem solving and systems thinking into everything she does. She still thinks of herself as a “bridge builder,” though the bridges are more metaphoric and people centered these days. Her engineering background, along with professional training and development in group theory, culturally competent human services, diversity training, experiential and adult education, mediation, intentional leadership, meeting design and facilitation, improvisational theater and presence-based leadership coaching make her uniquely trained and able to integrate creative methods with more data driven and logical processes.
When she is not encouraging others to stretch, she is stretching herself through the practice of yoga, hiking and parenting.