Sarah is a leadership and human performance consultant, executive coach and facilitator with over 20 years’ experience across global organisations. She has led global talent, leadership and organisational development functions, bringing first-hand experience of the complexity, pressure and challenges leaders face. Most recently, Sarah was Chief Skills & Learning Officer at Udemy. She has worked across organisations including Mastercard, Meta, Optus and KPMG, alongside management consulting experience with Deloitte.

Throughout her career, Sarah has focused on helping drive business performance through people, building leadership capability, developing high-performing teams and shaping the talent, culture and organisational capability needed to navigate growth, transformation and change. More recently, she has advised CEOs, CHROs and executive teams across a range of global organisations on talent and skills strategy, workforce transformation and optimising human and organisational performance.

Sarah holds two MScs in Performance Psychology and Positive Psychology & Coaching Psychology and works as a Human Performance and Mental Skills Consultant in elite sport. She brings this lens into business, applying the science of human performance to help leaders and teams perform under pressure, navigate change and sustain high performance.

Whether coaching an executive, facilitating a leadership programme or working with a team, Sarah’s approach is practical, evidence-based and focused on translating insight into meaningful shifts in how people think, lead and perform.

Why do you like working with our clients?

I’m fascinated by human performance and what enables people and teams to perform at their best. Getting to know our clients, understanding their world and getting underneath the real performance challenges they’re trying to solve is what makes the work so interesting.

My focus is on uncovering, with our clients, the moments that matter most to them: the critical conversations, decisions and behaviours where small shifts can have a significant impact. Together, we turn those insights into practical changes that stick.

What makes the work most rewarding is seeing the impact beyond the programme or workshop. Creating meaningful, lasting change matters, as does measuring the ROI of that investment through stronger leadership, higher-performing teams and better business outcomes.

What are some fun facts about you?

• I’m a qualified clown. Yes, that’s a real qualification, although written on imaginary paper.
• I played basketball for Ireland at underage level and have been talking about it for far too long.
• I love learning. Unfortunately, that enthusiasm hasn’t yet translated to cooking. I’m still working on the very, very basics.

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