Sarah Hardman

Leadership Coach (London & the South East)

As a Leadership & Team Coach I specialise in helping those who are stepping up into more senior roles be self-aware, self-assured leaders who bring the best out of their teams.

My Team coaching supports senior teams be more cohesive & aligned by improving the quality of their conversations and relationships.

I know from my own experience working in senior roles in the Culture & Heritage sectors that taking that first step into a leadership role or team can be very daunting. Increased responsibilities, demanding stakeholders & new team dynamics can have even the most capable person doubting their abilities.

Emerging leaders face a variety of challenges stepping up into more senior roles including:
• Struggling to find their place & authority in the senior team
• Being overwhelmed by the increased level of responsibility
• Shifting the focus from the tactical to the strategic
• Juggling multiple demands and changing contexts

Through working with scores of leaders at various stages of their careers I’ve discovered that it’s rarely ability that gets in the way of people being effective or impactful leaders – it’s self-awareness and self-belief.

Which is why I’m committed to working with people to help them to:
• Tap in to their unique capacities & the value they bring
• Cultivate the self-awareness & ability to adapt their natural style to different people and situations
• Build trusting relationships & empower their teams

My clients come from wide range of sectors including culture and heritage, publishing, digital media, higher education and the senior civil service.

My coaching clients describe me as warm, insightful, direct and fun.

What it’s like to work with me in a clients words:
“Sarah skilfully held the space for courageous coaching sessions that led me to take bold action. I began my coaching journey with Sarah in the midst of lots of challenges and was definitely over extended at work in ways that were not always helpful. I have achieved some truly momentous shifts and I know this has been down to Sarah’s creativity, care, gracious dexterity and intuition.”

Prior to my coaching career I had a 20 year marketing career working for organisations including Coca Cola Schweppes, Routledge publishing and latterly the British Library, where I was Head of Audience Development and Brand, leading both organisational change and brand positioning programmes.

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P.S I love dogs with eyebrows, trees, learning new things and being by the sea.