“Sarah created a space where I could be honest about my struggles whilst challenging me to see my own agency and capabilities… she helped me recognise patterns I’d been blind to and gave me concrete tools to interrupt them in real time.”
Welcome to Stride
Clarity and confidence for leaders and coaches
The path becomes clearer when the conversation begins
At STRIDE everything starts with a conversation – the kind that creates space, slows the pace and lets you hear yourself more clearly.
I create calm, grounded, thoughtfully challenging conversations that help you see what’s at play beneath the surface — strengths, patterns, hopes, hesitations — and consciously choose your next step with clarity and confidence.
Whether you’re leading through complexity or deepening your practice as a coach, STRIDE is a steady partner for moments of transition, growth and realignment.
Hi, I’m Sarah
I work with:
- High achievers navigating transitions
- Leaders working through complexity and driving change
- Coaches looking to grow and deepen their practice
You are:
- Ambitious and hard-working.
- Values driven, with a focus on fairness, autonomy, respect and kindness
- Looking for stretch and challenge
You want to:
- Grow into the leader or coach you aspire to be
- Consider a career or developmental transition
- Be better at navigating yourself and others through change
- Build deeper and more conscious connections
- Have the space to reflect more intentionally on your work
Ready for an exploratory conversation?
Coaching at its best is an insightful and challenging conversation
It explores four fundamental steps
Step 1. Awareness
Understanding yourself better, your values, strengths and motivators
Step 2. Clarity
Understanding what matters and how you want the future to be different
Step 3. Choice
Understanding your options, strengths to leverage, barriers to overcome
Step 4. Action
Making decisions, taking purposeful action, staying true to who you are
Coaching for leaders
Calm, reflective conversations that bring clarity, confidence and purposeful action, designed to suit your individual needs.
Common topics of conversation include stepping into bigger roles, leading through change with confidence, navigating career transitions with clarity, staying true to what you value most, working with others more effectively.
“My sessions with Sarah have been instrumental in my clarity for the future”
AB, CEO, Schools Trust
Supervision for coaches
(1-to-1 and small groups)
A calm grounded partnership for honest reflection, ethical awareness and professional growth. Supervision that strengthens presence, deepens practice and supports the coach behind the coaching.
Common topics of conversation include coaching presence, intuitive practice, identifying strengths, uncovering blind spots, the coaching relationship, your coaching edge, finessing your approach.
“Sarah anchored my coaching and reminded me that my style is mine to own”
Frederik Boesen, Executive Coach
Education and development for leaders and coaches
A facilitated experiential space to support the development of a coaching approach to your everyday interactions and working relationships.
Common topics of conversation include coaching skills for leaders, relational awareness, emotional regulation, working with strengths, understanding human behaviour.
Find out more about how we support leaders and coaches to develop relational agility when the stakes are high with the advanced Breakthrough Conversations programme.
“Sarah delivered an awesome strengths session, with lots to think about and take us forward as a team”
Mike Gibson, Managing Director, Mitie
Time for clarity and confidence
Why have a conversation with me?
Finding the right person for a meaningful, purposeful conversation is key. When you feel understood, heard and respectfully challenged, the path ahead becomes clearer. A path you can tread confidently, staying true to your values and core strengths. This is where positive change happens.
I’m a highly experienced executive coach, group coach, coach supervisor and coach educator. I believe personal impact and great leadership depends on an ability to work with and through others, requiring self-awareness, self-regulation, relational agility, adaptability, motivation and resilience, which can be improved through coaching.
I coach senior executives across a range of sectors and professional backgrounds. My approach blends expertise in behavioural science and reflective practice with warm, intuitive presence. I’m an ICF Professional Certified Coach, EMCC Senior Practitioner, ESIA accredited Coach Supervisor, and Master Strengthscope practitioner. I hold an MSc in Coaching & Behavioural Change. I was lead coach for MBAs and lecturer in coaching at Henley Business School for 10 years, and co editor and author of ‘Third Wave Cognitive Behavioural Coaching’. Before STRIDE, I spent a decade leading business change in complex organisations — which keeps my work practical, grounded and real.
What clients say
“I had coaching with Sarah when I took up a challenging senior role. Sarah helped me to reflect on and find techniques to manage the transition. She helped me untangle my thoughts.”
“Sarah significantly shifted my perspective on my coaching in the most positive way. I now feel more confident and capable in my coaching practice, with a clearer understanding of who I am as a coach and the value I bring to my coachees.”
“Sarah was human, practical and relevant. Sarah created an easy-going environment for clear thinking, honest reflection and meaningful challenge. Our conversations were focused, well-held and immediately relevant to the realities of practice.”
“Sarah created a safe space. Her gentle style allows her to ask quite challenging questions in a supportive way. I felt able to raise issues due to the trust she engendered. She always pushed me to dig deeper and examine my own motivations and assumptions”.
“Sarah was a great listener, prepared to let me explore and willing to call out my blind spots. Coaching has had a positive impact on my team and working relationships, I’m surer of my place and how to manage my boundaries.”
“Sarah brings a rare combination of calm presence, sharp insight and deep respect for your own thinking. She listens deeply, notices what’s you’ve stopped seeing, and helps you to reconnect with the bigger picture. Our work has been grounding and quietly stretching.”
Organisations I’ve worked with
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