EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM COACHING & ADVISORY
You know something isn't working.
So does everyone else.
Nobody's saying it.
I work with C-suite and senior leaders who are ready to look beyond the symptoms - and act on what's actually driving them.
ACCREDITED
International Coach Federation - Professional Certified Coach
CERTIFIED
Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach
PUBLISHED IN
Forbes
Leadership gets lonelier as the stakes get higher. At this level, everything you say is being weighed.
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Finding a space where it isn't is where the real thinking begins.
THE PROBLEM YOU CAN SEE IS RARELY THE REAL PROBLEM
MY APPROACH
What sits below the surface is driving everything.
Most leadership challenges aren't what they appear to be.
The decisions that stall, the tensions that persist, the strategies that never quite land - they're being driven by something below the waterline.
The area we are never taught how to speak about.
Which conversation are you avoiding? And what opportunity are you missing by avoiding it?
My job is to surface what's actually going on - and challenge you on it.
I work with leaders who are ready to hear it and do something about it.
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WORK WITH ME
Are you ready to explore beneath the waterline?
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Executive Leadership Coaching & Advisory
You're navigating something that can't go on the agenda. The politics, the pressure, the decision you keep circling. This is where we name it - and work out what to do about it.
A tailored 3-6 month engagement.
The leaders who do this work make better decisions, move faster, and stop losing energy to what they've been avoiding.
Let's talk
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Investment matched to scope and goals
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Leadership Team Coaching & Away Days
We design engineering teams. We design buildings. We design products. But we leave our leadership teams to chance.
The most expensive team in your organisation is also the least intentionally designed.
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We change that. ​Using Organizational Relationships Systems principles, we build the alliance, the communication, and the trust that holds when the pressure is real.
Let's talk
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Priced per team
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CliftonStrengths® Coaching
Most leaders are working harder than they need to because they're working against their own strengths.
The CliftonStrengths® assessment changes that. We identify your top talents, understand what's driving your decisions, and put that clarity to work.
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Three focused sessions.
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Immediate application.
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A foundation for everything that follows.
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Individual package via ThriveCart
SPEAKING & WORKSHOPS
The topics other speakers avoid
I hold the room for the conversations that matter - with care, without judgement, and with the trust that makes honesty possible.
I speak at leadership events, conferences, and executive forums where the real questions are rarely on the agenda. Each talk is built around a single uncomfortable truth - and what becomes possible when someone finally names it.
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The silence in the room is running the room
The emotion everyone can feel and nobody names is the most powerful thing in the room. A talk that changes how leaders read - and lead - any group.
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We design everything except the team making the decisions
In the most volatile political and economic climate in a generation, the leadership team has never mattered more. And it has almost certainly never been deliberately designed.
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What the most powerful person in the room is afraid to say
Leadership gets lonelier as the stakes get higher. This talk names what that costs - the leader, the team, and the whole organisation.
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Additional topics available on request
The Conversation You're Avoiding - Why Everything You've Been Taught About Success Is Making You Unhappy - Future of Leadership & Inclusive Innovation - Courageous Conversations - Women in Leadership
ABOUT SARAH NEEDHAM
BOLD. CURIOUS. INTUITIVE.
I bring an intensity that makes people think harder than they expected to.
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I came to this work through engineering. I was trained to find the fault in the system - not the obvious one, the structural one underneath. I bring that same precision to leadership.
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What sits alongside it is harder to train. The ability to ask the question nobody else has asked. To see the specific person in front of me, not a leadership type or a problem to solve.
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I work with boldness and curiosity. With care and without judgement.
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I work with a small number of senior leaders at a time. Trust requires attention.
COACHING
ICF . PCC CERTIFIED
PUBLISHING
Forbes Coaches Council
STRENGTHS
Gallup Certified
BACKGROUND
Chartered Aeronautical Engineer