Sarah Williment
UpAGear Team Coach
Exec & Leadership Coach
Locations: United Kingdom & Europe
Leadership and systems coach enabling leaders and teams to thrive in complexity and change
Executive Summary
Sarah is an organisational development and systems coach who works with leaders, teams and organisations navigating complexity, change and growth. She supports senior leaders, researchers, and cross-sector teams to strengthen leadership capability, build trust and deliver sustainable performance.
Her approach combines executive coaching with systems thinking and dialogic development, helping leaders see challenges from multiple perspectives and unlock new ways of working at the intersection of leadership, culture, and collaboration.
Alongside coaching, Sarah designs and delivers highly interactive, tailored workshops addressing practical workplace challenges, including equity, diversity and inclusion, time management, motivation and productivity, values-based recruitment, project and team leadership, performance management, and effective collaboration.
With senior leadership experience across public and private sectors, and over 20 years’ experience in adult and higher education, she previously led a £70m government-funded learning technology programme and helped establish learndirect, the UK’s leading online learning provider. Her consultancy spans manufacturing, engineering, education, research, sport, leisure, and the charity sector.
Focus Areas:
- Leadership capability and development – supporting leaders to navigate complexity, strengthen self-awareness and lead with greater clarity and confidence.
- Leadership team effectiveness – building trust, alignment and productive challenge within leadership teams.
- Leading in complexity and uncertainty – enabling leaders to make better decisions and adapt in fast-changing environments.
- Inclusive leadership and culture – helping organisations create environments where diverse perspectives drive performance.
- Purpose, performance and engagement – supporting individuals and teams to reconnect with purpose and sustain high performance.
- Cross-sector leadership and collaboration- experience working across public, private, academic and social enterprise environments.
Coaching Approach
Sarah’s coaching combines executive coaching, organisational development and systems thinking. She works with leaders and managers, not only at the level of individual performance but also in relation to the wider organisational and relational systems they operate within.
Her style is thoughtful, challenging and supportive, and she flexes between coaching and mentoring, as needed. She creates a reflective space where leaders can step back from immediate pressures, explore different perspectives and make clearer strategic choices.
Sarah also integrates diagnostic tools such as Strengthscope and UpAGear where appropriate, alongside dialogic techniques that surface underlying assumptions, dynamics, hidden competing commitments, and opportunities for change.
The focus is always on practical impact – helping leaders and managers translate insight into action, strengthen relationships across teams, and build the confidence and capability required to lead effectively in complex organisational environments.
Proven Impact
Sarah has supported leaders and teams across sectors to strengthen collaboration, navigate organisational change and improve leadership effectiveness.
Her work has helped leadership teams move from fragmented working to greater alignment and trust, supported researchers and senior professionals to lead high-performing teams under pressure, and enabled organisations to address challenging cultural dynamics.
Clients frequently report increased clarity in decision-making, stronger team relationships and greater confidence in leading through uncertainty. Her combination of systems thinking and practical leadership development helps translate reflection into measurable behavioural and organisational change.
Credentials
Sarah is an ILM Certified Coach and Mentor with an MEd in Leadership & Management. She is a licensed Strengthscope and UpAGear practitioner and an experienced organisational development consultant.
Her career spans senior leadership roles in government-funded programmes and extensive cross-sector consultancy.
Based in the UK, Sarah works nationally and internationally with organisations through in-person and virtual coaching and development.
To explore coaching and development support for leaders or teams, please get in touch to arrange an initial conversation.