Sarah Perrott

PRAGMATIC • ENERGETIC •  COMMERCIAL

Sarah is energetic and positive, with a warm, engaging style and a focus on values. She helps create the energy and self-belief that enables senior leaders to grow and succeed.

She loves walking along the River Thames and is passionate about yoga, aiming to maintain flexibility in body, mind and spirit!

Sarah is a certified executive coach through APECS and has an MSc in Executive Coaching and Behavioural Change. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personal Development, fully accredited with the British Psychological Society, a certified NLP practitioner and a licensed HeartMath provider.

She has a strong track record, working with executives and senior directors via action learning sets, executive coaching, team coaching and leadership development programmes. She has a passion for seeing people flourish and be the best in their particular situation.

Sarah’s style is energetic, pragmatic, commercial and values-based. She is a keen advocate for the people and teams she coaches. Her approach draws on psychodynamic perspectives, augmented with models and tools from Type theory, as well as insights from neuroscience and Positive Psychology, and research from HeartMath on resilience and well-being.

Focus

  • Executive coaching

  • Team coaching

  • Group coaching

  • Mental fitness coaching

  • Career coaching

  • Developing and facilitating Transformational Leadership programmes

  • Developing and delivering assessment processes for selection and development

  • Providing feedback on psychological profiles for selection and development

  • Using psychometrics for development and self-awareness

“I made the move to a new role, after my wedding so it was a busy end to the year! It is continuing to change, as of last week I have an even newer role, a promotion to Commercial Director, with more commercial remit and focus. I am really enjoying the new challenges (and a 50% increase in package!). A genuine thank you for your coaching and counsel and for helping me realise I was ready for the next step.”
— Senior Manager, central government

Career Highlights

  • Creating and facilitating programmes for a professional services firm focusing on resilience and well-being, confidence and personal impact

  • Creating an Action Learning programme for PhD Students

  • Developing and facilitating a peer support programme in a national charity

  • Designing and rolling out a high impact public sector leadership development programme

  • Establishing the Training and Development function for a UK-wide retail organisation

  • Acting as Chair of Coaches for the Centre For Entrepreneurs New Entrepreneurs Foundation, since 2018

  • Being President of the British Association for Psychological Type, since 2017

  • Designing and managing the cultural shift/organisational development process for RBS, back in the 1980s – helping them put customers first, and move from being seen solely as a Scottish bank to a leading UK banking brand

Qualifications

  • MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change Henley Business School with University of Reading

  • Fellow of Chartered Institute of Personal Development

  • Licenced HeartMath Provider

  • Accredited master executive coach with APECS

  • Member of British Association of Psychological Type

  • Qualified in a range of psychometrics including 16PF, FIRO-B, MBTI, Hogan’s Personality Inventory and Development Survey, Thomas Kilmann Conflict Indicator, Strong Interest Inventory, Emotional Intelligence TEQue and Team inventory

  • One of only 70 MBTI practitioners in the world qualified to use the Step 3 of the MBTI (most people have only encountered Step 1)

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