Sarah is a really great coach – she is approachable, personable and makes one feel at ease.  She is also a great listener.  In my view coaching works best if you are open to sharing honestly your toughest issues or deepest fears – be it work or personal.  Sarah is really good at asking probing questions which set me thinking hard on my current mindset and open my mind to new perspectives.

Being a newly promoted partner who is still adjusting to the new role, the coaching sessions helped tremendously.  Sarah is a great listener and she always put my interests first.  Sarah has a deep understanding of how things work in our organisation and the demands of a client-facing function.  Hence, she is able to relate better and offer insightful advice on how to manage clients’ expectations as well as the firm’s expectations of a partner.  Sarah discussed my partner KPIs [key performance indicators] at length with me and asked probing questions to encourage me to think deeper about how I could better achieve them.

The sessions were useful in helping me gain a better self-awareness of my leadership style and whether I am on the right track in terms of my approaches to addressing problems and issues…The sessions also helped with self-discovery as they .. force you to answer questions about yourself that you may not have thought to ask or you would rather not think about… It was also useful to have someone outside the firm to share thoughts and ideas on how situations or issues could be better addressed, and to gain a fresh perspective how to approach them.