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About our Founder
Sarah Shiers has more than thirty years’ experience in the Human Capital Management space, specialising in talent management, facilitation and coaching both in international firms and later as the founder of her own practice. During her career, she has worked both as a search consultant and later, a trusted advisor across Europe, the USA, South America and APAC, on a range of assignments, across many industries and in a broad mix of company cultures and systems.
For the last twenty years or more, she has also been coaching many of her clients, drawing on her observations of the issues and behaviours which contribute to excellent professional and personal performance in business, medicine, teaching and more generally.
During this time, she has met and worked with a range of personalities, operating in stressful, pressured conditions and learned to quickly adapt her own style to fit different cultures. She has developed strong empathy and learned to ‘read the room’ and react accordingly. She has a strong moral compass and has often been the recipient of confidences, professional and – where they impinge on performance at work – personal. She is able to navigate complex environments and rapidly identify and articulate core issues.
Sarah is also experienced in helping clients with issues that emerge due to changes in their circumstances or a new role they have taken or have been offered. Succession planning is an area in which she has been working for a long time, as this has been a natural partner to her talent management and search work.
Her professional experience has given her great insight into the particular barriers faced by minority groups, particularly female executives, in their drive to progress, to achieve and, over time, remain in a senior management, C-suite or board role. Sarah feels passionately about the positive aspects to diversity of all kinds in business and she is actively developing a coaching practice that reflects real diversity, not only of gender, race or ability but incorporating true cognitive diversity. Her practice includes an element of pro bono engagements to support this.
Sarah has a Certificate in Coaching for Leadership and Professional Development from the Tavistock Institute and an Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching accredited by Bristol Business School.
She is a Member of the Association for Coaching.
