Working together
The best outcomes come when people feel ownership over what they're doing.
I design everything with that in mind. It’s empowerment and ownership in action.
Business development
BD isn't a gift some people have and others don't. It's a set of habits, skills and choices. I help firms and their people build them in a way that actually sticks.
BD strategy & planning
Firm-wide, practice or industry-level. I work with you to develop a focused, executable plan that people actually own. That means combining stakeholder conversations, market insight and your team's own knowledge into something real, not something handed down from above.
Client experience
Mapping every touchpoint from first contact to long-term relationship. The goal is to help your people see that how they show up throughout a matter is itself a BD tool. Deep-dive work on the moments that matter most: proposals, client listening, cross-selling, key client reviews.
Winning new business
Review and strengthen your proposals process. Support on a major opportunity. Or build a new framework for managing your pipeline from identification to post-pitch debrief. Practical, not theoretical.
BD coaching
One-to-one coaching at any level, tailored to the individual and focused on outcomes. Practical and accountable, not just reflective. People leave with things they can do, not just things they understand.
Leadership & engagement
Leadership isn't about authority or titles. It's about knowing who you are, what you stand for and how to bring others with you. I help people build that, in their own way.
Leadership coaching
One-to-one and group coaching for partners, senior associates and emerging leaders. I work on the real stuff: presence, confidence, how to lead under pressure, how to be direct without losing people. The goal is always a version of leadership that feels genuinely theirs.
Women’s leadership
Programmes built around real challenges: credibility, visibility, confidence, navigating systems that weren't designed with you in mind. Honest conversations, practical tools and a room where people feel safe to be themselves.
Neurodivergent leadership
Working with neurodivergent professionals to understand what they bring, how to harness it and how to navigate what gets in the way. Grounded in lived experience as well as practice.
Internal engagement
Strategy and skills for firms who want to communicate with more clarity, more consistency and more humanity, internally and externally.
Facilitation & speaking
Events and offsites work best when people leave feeling something has shifted. That’s where I start from with every programme I design.
Keynote speeches
Bespoke content built from scratch for the specific audience, culture and goal. Recent topics include BD as business as usual, leadership by design, credibility and confidence.
Conference chairing
Setting the tone, holding the energy and creating the conditions for real conversation. Panellists and audiences leave feeling it was worth their time.
Offsite facilitation
Strategy conversations, team sessions, away days. Designed to generate genuine insight and alignment. People leave with clarity and ownership over what happens next. I work with rooms of 10 to 500.
Custom programme design
Half-day to multi-day programmes built around your specific challenge. From brief to delivery, entirely bespoke. The measure of success is always the same: what do people do differently?
“Sarah has deep knowledge and real world experience of professional services, business development and understands the structures and approaches that work.”
CEO, Global consulting network
“[Sarah] is highly collaborative with a broad network and has earned the respect of leaders globally. Sarah often asks the difficult questions and she is not afraid to challenge the status quo”
CEO, US consulting firm
“Sarah is unfailingly engaging, positive, wise and professional and brings with her a wealth of valuable experience.”
L&D Leader, Global law firm