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Sarah Ackroyd
A fully accredited coach and published author on business mentoring, Sarah has worked as an executive coach and management consultant for over 20 years. Sarah is a founding director of The Centre for Mentoring & Coaching Ltd (www.mentoringcentre.co.uk). Her experience spans the corporate, public and the voluntary sectors and she has designed and delivered bespoke leadership development programmes and team coaching for high profile clients including most recently NHS England, the University of Greenwich, University of Portsmouth, Marie Curie, Triodos Bank UK, UWE Bristol, and the University of Bristol.
Sarah’s leadership and management expertise was gained through 16 years instigating and managing large scale change programmes for Local Government. Here she worked in a number of senior roles in housing services and gained her Housing Management Professional qualification.
Sarah is a qualified supervisor coach and acts as a supervisor on the Bath Consultancy Group Supervision Programme for coaches, mentors and consultants. The Centre for Mentoring and Coaching Ltd are business partners with the University of the West of England where Sarah for over 10 years co-tutored a Masters Module on coaching entitled ‘Developing Mentors and Coaches: an inquiry into practice’. Sarah has also designed and delivered many in-house coaching programmes and provides supervision to independent and organisational coaches both individually and in groups.
"I just wanted to say thank you for working with me this year and for being so supportive and appreciative. I very much valued the way you reflected back to me not only my own internal scripts but also the inconsistencies and (sometimes) incorrect evaluations I made about myself. I found your style of working with very affirming and encouraging." Academic Director, UWE Bristol, transition coaching to retirement.
Qualified in the use of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator Step II, Sarah uses this to help people understand themselves and unravel the way they communicate with others. Sarah is a qualified practitioner of the Leadership Development Framework and the Leadership Insight Profiling tool. Both these leadership tools provide powerful development insights for leaders wanting to develop their current leadership capacity.
"Sarah has also been my executive coach and has worked with me whilst I have been leading the business through some significant change including restructuring senior management, rebranding and re-focussing our vision. I personally find Sarah is both supportive and challenging as a coach. In particular she has helped me explore different ways of approaching difficult conversations, think about my personal impact, and has enabled me to take stock of the progress I am making" CEO Housing Group
Numerous organisations have benefited from Sarah’s tailored leadership development programmes combining individual and team coaching with action learning. She is renown for running talent management programmes for universities where both academics and professional services managers benefit from a joint programme which supports breaking down barriers within the system as well as developing the leadership and management capacity within the organisation.
I have thoroughly enjoyed working with you. You have helped me to find that strength to believe in my convictions more. Like I said yesterday, you created a safe, professional and friendly space for me to share my thoughts and feelings in an open manner. The coaching has helped me to grow in my journey as a new head teacher.
Sarah brings a potent mix of drive and compassion to her work, which translates into her personal ambitions and pastimes. Her harp playing sustains her calmness whilst her energy extends into her enjoyment of long distance running and triathlons.
"I appreciate all that you have done for me Sarah, you’ve been incredibly patient with my insecurities. I feel I’ve grown as a manager, a mum and in many other ways too. I’m very lucky to have had the opportunity to meet and work with you" Middle Manager, Housing Association