Sara Harrison Email & Phone Number

Leeds, Gb

West Yorkshire

Illuminate Career Coaching is committed to supporting organisations to flourish by bringing out the best in their people.•Partnered with individuals to explore sources of stress and build a resilient mindset to manage change and complexity. Challenging the inner voice and building new habits and beliefs, so conscious choices were made to relieve the pressure.• Supported business leaders to align with their values and purpose to give them focus, allowing them to collaborate with their teams authentically and concentrate on the controllables engaging their teams to deliver business outcomes.• Coached 35 leaders exploring skills, strengths, behaviours, 360 feedback and MBTI type resulting in increased self-awareness and clarity on their leadership style leading to improved interpersonal relationships allowing them to influence with impact.• Built confidence and motivation in leaders to support them in navigating their careers, understanding and managing obstacles empowering them to attain their career goals.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Supporting organisations through change in the public and private sector.• Motivated 1:1 executive clients to sell themselves successfully in the internal job market by raising self-awareness in order to build their personal brand and network effectively.• Facilitated 25 CV skills workshops to over 200 people to support them in building confidence and direction to apply for roles. Undertaking follow up CV reviews to fine tune the CVs.• Trained employees in resilience techniques to ensure they remained motivated and productive during change.• Conducted 30 mock competency-based interviews to clients, sensitively giving feedback and coaching them to build confidence and sell themselves effectively.

• Drove and influenced the strategic planning of a coaching culture with the executives and directors resulting in coaching culture being a pillar in the 5 year strategic plan.• Initiated and drove the embedding of a Coaching Culture across Covea giving rise to leaders using 131% more ask than tell resulting in highly empowered teams.• Established and led the internal coaching service, since inception 110 people have been coached with 80% retention rate, coaching is now democratized across the organization.• Devised and program managed a series of Coaching Skills for leaders workshops to 400+ leaders and managers resulting in improved team working, collaboration and communication.• Coached 50 leaders to support the development of their authentic leadership style and assisted them in fulfilling their future career aspirations.• Coached 30 leaders through their 360 feedback to support them in their personal and professional development during a senior leadership program generating growth plans and delivering follow up coaching.• Led a team of 20 internal coaches supporting them with supervision, CPD and the delivering of coaching culture activities across the business.

Halifax, United Kingdom

I worked with Leaders at LBG to support them through a huge integration programme. Coaching individuals to manage engagement, career transitions, change, performance.• Researched the business challenges in Group IT and established the need for coaching, influencing the senior team to roll out coaching across the IT division after completion of a successful pilot.• Marketed the coaching service across teams nationally by delivering presentations and newsletters to promote the benefits.• Reported issues and trends to the coaching sponsor resulting in the extension of the coaching service.• Coached 40 high potentials and new Leaders, to assist them in managing change and transition, influencing others, managing diversity, building their overall confidence and resilience to become effective leaders.• Coached 20 individuals to manage their careers during change and supported them in defining their career goals in order to have meaningful conversations to activate their career plan.

Yorkshire

• Project managed a team of 15 to deliver a £1million 18 month IT systems integration Project on time, to budget and to quality. • Reported weekly progress to senior sponsors, escalating key risks to the plan resulting in the creation and assignment of actions to keep the plan on track.• Ran stakeholder definition workshops to ensure all parties requirements were included in the project scope.• Facilitated weekly Project Team meetings to enable the monitoring of progress against the plan and the successful management of risks and issues. • Co-ordinated with other work streams to link plans together and understand dependencies resulting in the successful management of conflicting priorities.• Managed a diverse team of 10 consultants, 4 third party suppliers, 10 offshore and 20 onshore team members resulting in clear and timely communication between all parties

Yorkshire

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Pcc, Coaching

Cpcc, Co-Active Coaching

Licensed Firework Coach, Career Transition

Organisational And Relationship Systems Coaching Fundamentals, Relationship/Team Coaching

Ba Business Information Systems