Professional Coaching: 

Consulting: 

Change Leadership: 

As your coach, I support your goals through the art of inquiry. I consider my coachees capable and successful, who sometimes need a thought partner to overcome limiting beliefs and discover their path to success. 

My ideal coachee is a leader in their work environment, who may be facing challenging team dynamics or a changing work environment.

I listen to you as you explore - supporting what you are trying to create. I serve as a listening partner, clarifying an approach to the challenges, co-creator to any meeting facilitation or design, and content expert in communications, team development, leadership presence, and meeting success.  

I support leaders and teams who are facing unprecedented change and striving to communicate with one another along the way. I can guide you in creating a Vision, alignment and execution towards a new future. As a certified change management professional (CCMP), I bring current change processes to support project management or lean improvement processes.

My values:

• Connections
• Creativity    
• Choice
• Continual Learning
• Collaboration

"C" what Sarah brings to the conversation:

•                              First YOU AND I need to connect to see if the relationship will work toward your goals. Relationships are KEY in life - to have good working relationships at work and meaningful relationships in life. I also love to make new connections from the patterns I see, from my wide range of skills and studies, and trusting inspirational moments that support our work.
•                        I have a unique way of putting things together into new possibilities. I use my arts and science background to bring a holistic approach. I get so much joy out of creating new ideas.
•                  Staying at choice and autonomy is a human need. It takes courage to continue staying active in designing our own life.
•                                                I seek to be better in my life each day and encourage others to grow. Mistakes are opportunities to learn and become better….Relax, “we mess up - only daily!”
•                                 I LOVE to collaborate with others. As an extrovert, I enjoy sharing ideas, solving challenges, and creating new solutions with others. I enjoy bringing people together for common purposes.  

CONNECTIONS • CREATIVITY • CHOICE • CONTINUAL LEARNING • COLLABORATION

Connections.

Creativity.

Choice.

Continually Learning.

Collaboration.

"C" what Sarah brings to the conversation:

• CONNECTIONS. First YOU AND I need to connect to see if the relationship will work toward your goals. Relationships are KEY in life - to have good working relationships at work and meaningful relationships in life. I also love to make new connections from the patterns I see, from my wide range of skills and studies, and trusting inspirational moments that support our work.

• CREATIVITY. I have a unique way of putting things together into new possibilities. I use my arts and science background to bring a holistic approach. I get so much joy out of creating new ideas.

• CHOICE. Staying at choice and autonomy is a human need. It takes courage to continue staying active in designing our own life.

• CONTINUALLY LEARNING. I seek to be better in my life each day and encourage others to grow. Mistakes are opportunities to learn and become better….Relax, “we mess up - only daily!”

• COLLABORATION. I LOVE to collaborate with others. As an extrovert, I enjoy sharing ideas, solving challenges, and creating new solutions with others. I enjoy bringing people together for common purposes.  

CONNECTIONS • CREATIVITY • CHOICE • CONTINUAL LEARNING • COLLABORATION

Ampersandbox Case Study:

Conserving history, preparing for the future “Roots and Branches”

Project:

Part of building a new hospital, 30 trees, 90 azaleas and 90 day lilies needed to be removed from the space. Rapid and unannounced tree removal near the same space 20 years prior caused months of staff complaints and disrupted business.

Challenge:

I began to prepare the staff for the drastic landscape change about to occur. I enlisted staff support to create ideas for notifying and involving staff. The Roots and Branches committee decided on a multi prong approach. We created a banner with archival pictures of the many changes to the buildings over 60 years, to highlight the changes have been ongoing. The committee planned and orchestrated a closing ceremony and gratitude service for the green space that defined the front entrance. During the service, the hospital President, offered a re-frame of the situation. He said, “I hate to have the trees go except in this place, will be a new hospital that will bring 6,000/year – in my lifetime that is 500,000 babies safely born here…and for THAT, I am willing to lose the tress.” The committee also made arrangements with the landscape crew – to pull up the plants and allow employees to take one home to plant extending the legacy. Four large pieces of the trees for a future sculpture. The committee had learned there were several employees who were wood artisans.They supplied their ideas and an artisan/employee was selected. The trees came down.

Solution:

A local botanical garden was present when the trees came down, and topped off the trees to try to grow new trees from the cuttings. The committee thought they could replant the new growth trees around the various hospital campuses. While the cuttings tried to grow, the building project began. This waiting time spent drying out/prepping the saved wood trunks. The propagation of the trees didn’t work. The employee did create an incredible art piece that now hangs in the lobby of the new building as a way of bringing the old and the new together. The employee entitled the sculpture – Convergence.

Result:

“I now understand the power this goodbye thing – Sarah, do you know how many complaints we got when the trees were felled? NONE! People were notified, involved and they understood the efforts to honor the former front entrance that had held space for employee gatherings and events for decades.”