Sarah’s business, Thrive Consulting Collaborative, works with people organisations to clarify strategy and purpose, build and enhance leadership skills, and nurture and shape positive culture. Sarah has built this career as a management consultant and executive coach having started her working life as a lawyer. Following her MBA, she held international executive level roles in a range of businesses including Linklaters and Korn Ferry, before becoming CEO of an autism school and outreach centre in Colorado.

Sarah is a widow and adoptive mother and is strongly driven by social justice and equality issues.  She is a volunteer Coach and Ambassador with Queen Bee Coaching, Chair of Voice 21, a national education charity, and is a member of the UK Social Mobility Awards judging panel. She is a voracious reader, an intermittent writer, a sometimes too passive activist and her two boys are bemused by their mother’s love of sport.