LEAD. PLAY. THRIVE.
The Future of Leadership is Playful
Playful leaders are resilient leaders. And resilience is what we need to face a future of uncertainty.
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Playfulness is not about being frivolous or light-hearted. It’s about tapping into our innate capacity to explore, experiment and adapt. It allows us to step outside of fixed patterns and rediscover our own flexibility, creativity and energy. It reconnects us with being human.
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These are the capacities that make strong leadership possible in an uncertain world.
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If you’re looking to help build human leadership for an uncertain future, you’re in the right place.
What Makes This
Different
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Evidence-based: grounded in neuroscience and behavioural psychology
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Holistic and human-centred: looks at the human behind the leader not cookie-cutter leadership models
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Explorative: focussed on discovering new perspectives and clarity more than achieving fixed goals
Who I Work With
I work with leaders, their teams and organisations who want to navigate uncertainty with greater ease.
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During uncertain times even the most competent people can start to lose confidence in their ability to perform, they can become stressed and feel overwhelmed, they can lose energy and enthusiasm for their job and end up feeling lost and unsure of whether it’s what they want to be doing.
When this happens performance suffers, profits fall, and yet more uncertainty prevails.
If you recognise this happening in yourself, your team, or your organisation, I can help.
Through playfulness, I help leaders reconnect with their capacity to explore new possibilities. In turn, they develop a greater sense of hope and optimism for the future, they grow in confidence and build more resilience - psychologists call this psychological capital.
When psychological capital grows, performance improves, teams feel safer and organisations can better weather the stormy seas of unknown futures.
Ways to Work Together
What My Clients Say
“What a difference it makes working with Sarah. Because it does feel like play in many ways, working with a partner and coach who is so adept at bringing a different mindset to challenges and helping me explore new avenues. I have learnt a huge amount from Sarah about how I can be a better leader, consultant and business owner. Sarah is everything you would expect from a great coach and more. Incredible listening, providing a safe space not just to express myself, but explore different ways of thinking with that more playful approach. Questions that enable new directions, suggestions that drive change and ongoing support and accountability to see results. Highly recommend.”
Helen Frewin, Director at Totem Consulting
What My Clients Say
"Sarah delivered a session at a team event that I attended. I was a little apprehensive but Sarah's ability to create a safe space meant that I needn't have been concerned. I had a real epiphany during one of the activities which helped me navigate some challenging feelings...It was a fantastic session that I would definitely recommend."
Sarah Makinde, Chartered Psychologist
What My Clients Say
“Sarah's approach is rare. She draws on her inner wisdom as she works with compassion, skill, and intellectual rigour. In encouraging clients to discover their playful selves, she taps into something we intuitively know: we are most creative and learn best when we are having fun. Sarah creates lightness in a coaching session that enables clients to be playful when exploring serious issues. This enables us to gain insights and perspectives to successfully navigate the challenges that work and life throw at us.”
Dr Elizabeth Crosse, MCC, DCM. M.Ed.,M.Sc., M.A.
What My Clients Say
“I'd been at a juncture in my career for some time, and felt stuck. I could only see greyness ahead of me, doing OK stuff but not satisfying. Sarah helped me to look beneath the surface and get my heart and head ready to seize the opportunity to transform my professional life when it presented itself. Sarah's positive approach was a great fit, helping me find the colour again by enabling me to find what was important to me. Ultimately it's given me back a spark and a lightness that I didn't know, but could feel that I had lost. I will always be grateful for that. Thank you”
