Consultants

Sarah Ackroyd

A fully accredited coach and published author on business mentoring, Sarah has worked as an executive coach and management consultant for over twelve years. Her experience spans the corporate, public and the voluntary sectors and she has designed and delivered bespoke leadership development programmes for high profile clients including the NSPCC, Peabody Trust, Barclays Capital, JPMorgan Chase Manhattan, National Police Service and UBS.

Sarah’s leadership and management expertise was gained through 16 years instigating and managing large scale change programmes for Local Government. Here she worked in a number of senior roles in housing services and gained her Housing Management Professional qualification.

Numerous organisations have benefited from Sarah’s tailored leadership development programmes combining individual and team coaching with action learning. Success from these has resulted in a number of longstanding client relationships. She is an approved coach for the NSCAS (National Careers Advisory Service), and the National School of G Government. In the past ten years she has delivered a series of acclaimed and highly effective leadership programmes for senior female officers and staff throughout the National Police Service in England and Scotland .

Qualified in the use of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Sarah uses this to help people understand themselves and unravel the way they communicate with others. Sarah is also a qualified practitioner of the Leadership Development Framework and the Leadership Insight Profiling tool. Both these leadership tools provide powerful development insights for leaders wanting to develop their current leadership capacity.

Sarah brings a potent mix of drive and compassion to her work, which translates into her personal ambitions and pastimes. An active member of her community, she provides harp meditations at silent retreats whilst her energy extends into her enjoyment of long distance running.

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