That's right -- even huge, world-changing-change begins inside your individual heart and mind.  I help leaders, teams, organizations and networks to make meaningful shifts within themselves so that they can then, in turn, change the world.

I’ve been honored to partner with amazing clients addressing today's most pressing issues: economic inequality, mass incarceration, climate change, spirituality and social justice, and immigration, to name a few.

On any given day, you can find me coaching leaders, facilitating team retreats, and delivering leadership development trainings.  

I come to this work from over two decades of involvement in nonprofits and social justice movements as a program director, executive team member, board member, volunteer, activist, participant, and donor. I bring with me an understanding of the nonprofit context, of social movements, and of how power, privilege, and oppression operate in our communities, in our organizations, and in ourselves.

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my credentials at-a-glance:

• Coach to more than 100 individual social change leaders since 2010

• 20+ years experience working with nonprofit organizations and social justice movements

• 15 years designing and facilitating leadership development programs

• Affiliate Coach with the Rockwood Leadership Institute

• Co-facilitator of the Masters-level Laboratory in Group Process, Facilitation and Intervention at The New School

• Masters of Science degree in Organizational Change Management from The New School University

• Additional training:

  • Organizational and Relationships Systems Coaching (CRR Global)

  • Transformational Consulting (Robert Gass)

  • Undoing Racism (People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond)

  • Group Relations (A.K. Rice Institute)

• Active in and accountable to community:

  • Lay leader with Beacon Hebrew Alliance congregation

  • Former local organizer for Showing Up for Racial Justice

  • Volunteer fundraiser for Movement Voter Project

  • Core volunteer with Mutual Aid Beacon, responding to community needs during the pandemic

my official bio:

Sarah From is a transformational coach and team development expert who partners with social change leaders, organizations, and networks. Sarah’s work helps people shift mindsets, relationships, and behaviors so that they can do meaningful work from a place of personal power and interpersonal connection. She brings an understanding of the nonprofit context, of social movements, and of how power, privilege, and oppression operate in our communities, in our organizations, and in ourselves.

Sarah’s clients include movement-building organizations, universities, start-up nonprofits, social service agencies, labor organizations, membership organizations, and religious groups. She is an Associate Consultant with Imagine Us, an Affiliate Coach with the Rockwood Leadership Institute, and a facilitator of the Masters-level Laboratory in Group Process, Facilitation and Intervention at The New School University.

Sarah earned her M.S. in Organizational Change Management at The New School. She has completed advanced training in Organization Relationship Systems Coaching, the Art of Transformational Consulting, Undoing Racism, and Group Relations. Sarah holds a B.A. in Sociology from Vassar College.

Sarah’s many years of on-the-ground experience in social justice movements includes nearly a decade of advocacy work on gender and criminal justice reform for a leading NYC nonprofit, serving as a core organizer for her small town’s Showing Up for Racial Justice chapter, and organizing donors to contribute to grassroots GOTV efforts through the Movement Voter Project. She is active with her local Mutual Aid project and synagogue, and lives with her family in the beautiful Hudson Valley of New York.

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