She combines eighteen years senior management experience with extensive psychological training to provide challenging, creative and pragmatic executive coaching. Sarah’s senior management roles in technology and financial services included global responsibility for strategy and service delivery, and she has successfully led and delivered major organisational change programmes. As a senior Executive Coach Sarah operates as “critical friend” ensuring that real business benefit and personal value is achieved in a supportive way. Sarah is straightforward, open and confident in approach making coachees feel they are in good, trusted hands.

Representative Client Engagements

• Leadership development programme for 50 Managing Directors in a global investment bank

• Change management and executive coaching programme for CEO and Board of a County Council

• New partner induction coaching programme for ‘magic circle’ law firm

• Turnaround coaching programme for struggling senior team in a large biotechnology company

• Women leaders and managers coaching programme for communication and impact skills

"Sarah is gifted in helping people to explore their situations and dilemmas. She is highly experienced and, with gentle yet expert questioning, she helps her clients to achieve clarity, direction and confidence. I recommend her unreservedly."

Areas of Expertise

• Leadership and management development

• Assertiveness and communication

• Personal impact and 'branding'

• Career transition and development

• Emotional intelligence

• Organisation and culture change

• Personal effectiveness

• Resilience and confidence building

Client Types and Levels of Experience

• CEO

• MD

• CTO/CIO/CFO/COO

• Director

• VP

• Non Exec Director

• Partner

• Manager and Executive

Sector Experience

• Financial Services

• Law

• Technology

• Biotech/Pharma/Science

• Professional Services

• Local and Central Government

• Consultancy

• Education and Academic

• Publishing

• Logistics/Supply Chain

• Utilities

• Charities and NFPs

• Defence

• Automotive

Qualifications and Professional Affiliations

• M.Sc (Occupational Psychology)

• MBA

• B.Sc (Hons) Psychology

• Member of the British Psychological Society

• Member of the BPS's Special Group in Coaching Psychology

• Fellow of the Association for Coaching

• Graduate Member of the International Society for Coaching Psychology (ISCP)

• Principal Member of the Association of Business Psychologists

Sarah is qualified in the British Psychological Society's Certificate in Test Use for Occupational Ability and Personality (formerly Level A and B). She maintains her high professional standards through ongoing continuing professional development and supervision. She mentors new coaches and students and was Founder of the ISCP's Cambridge Research Hub, promoting and sharing academic research in coaching psychology. Sarah was a director of the International Society for Coaching Psychology from 2017 to 2020.

​What Clients have said about working with Sarah

• Sarah helped me to bring an idea closer to reality. She explained and supported me in getting in the right direction without judging the reasons why I still had not done something or had not time to do more on my project. She understood well that it can be challenging to work, look after a family and trying to bring a project alive. I can only thank Sarah for her patience and support!

• My coaching experience far exceeded my expectations. over the course of coaching, my experiences and aims did alter slightly in response to challenges in the work place. Sarah was incredibly supportive, open and curious that I explore these with her deeply, and perfectly encouraged me to make my own personal strategies around these challenges. Specifically, presentation skills and experiences were a key objective of mine to tackle through coaching. By reflecting with Sarah on the underlying issues and hurdles, and by considering each new presentation experience with her, I was able to identify which approach actually worked out for me. She also made me feel comfortable in acknowledging that I am someone who enjoys structure, and to play to my strengths. I feel more equipped and confident following my coaching experience. Thank you!

• Sarah has provided me with excellent coaching support. She is thoroughly professional, offers sensible and well-considered advice, and is great to work with. If you are looking for a careers coach, I can highly recommend Sarah.

• Sarah is gifted in helping people to explore their situations and dilemmas. She is highly experienced and, with gentle yet expert questioning, she helps her clients to achieve clarity, direction and confidence. I recommend her unreservedly

• I have experienced the services of perhaps the leading big brand in this field but would have no hesitation in recommending Sarah as my first choice. She is, direct, honest, very professional and empathetic. Sarah gets straight to the heat of the matter – cutting out superfluous fluff.

• Sarah proved invaluable in her role as executive coach and external mentor to senior management in a Magic Circle law firm. Creative, pragmatic and totally in tune with the business environment. A great mix of commercial, organisational and inter-personal experience. I thoroughly recommend her.

• Sarah is an excellent coach, really making an effort to understand the details behind your business and people issues

• Sarah is an excellent coach. She helped to pinpoint the issues holding me back as a non-executive director and to develop effective solutions to address them. She has had a lasting impact on the way that I work and present myself.

• I have worked with Sarah personally and recommended her to my clients. She is professional, supportive and very good at understanding what makes someone tick.I can recommend her as an excellent coach and a lovely person!

• Sarah has helped me achieve the impossible, helping to move me outside my comfort zone in a controlled and measurable manner. Each session I grew more confident, and tackled new and difficult challenges with ease and comfort. I wouldn't think twice about recommending her excellent services. Thank you!

To arrange a free initial consultation with Sarah, email her on sarah.jaggers@managingchange.org.uk or call 07711 503382