TEAM DEVELOPMENT:
Sarah has been a consultant to OneTable since our founding. I brought her in most recently to facilitate a retreat for our Executive Team - and couldn't be more thrilled with the results. Our team had the chance to take a step back from the fast pace of our day to day; to connect to one another and build trust; and to proactively define the culture we want to build on our team. Sarah's skill as a facilitator allowed each of us to fully engage while also learning - I really appreciate how she brings in the latest wisdom about organizational leadership. I ALWAYS leave her sessions energized and challenged to be a better professional.
Aliza Kline
Founder and CEO, OneTable
LEADERSHIP COACHING:
The work that we have done has truly empowered me to become not only a better manager but also a better leader of my program with my colleagues across the organization. I never left a session not feeling challenged, and, always feeling supported. This has been such a great experience for me that I have renewed my contract with Sarah not once but twice. I highly recommend anyone who wants to become a successful manager to reach out to Sarah and start the work.
Issac Mason
Earthjustice
FACILITATION:
We hired Sarah to design and facilitate a staff offsite during a time of tremendous organizational change at The Forward. Sarah quickly took the pulse of our staff, assessed the issues at play, and designed a day that enabled everyone to contribute wholeheartedly in meaningful ways. I left the room feeling energized and connected, and inspired to do more great work together.
Rachel Fishman Feddersen
Publisher & CEO, The Forward
FACILITATION:
As an organization leaving the start-up phase, we needed guidance to clarify our mission and vision moving forward. From our first phone call with Sarah, where her intuitiveness, strategic thinking and expertise shined through, to the team retreat she expertly and deftly facilitated, it was clear that she was the perfect match for Sixth & I. I couldn’t recommend her more highly and can’t wait to work with her again
Heather Moran
Sixth & I
LEADERSHIP COACHING:
Sarah does the most skillful job of slowly pushing me forward while mirroring, tracking and back stitching. It's been a grounding force amidst a lot of uncertainty.
Claudia Horwitz
Founder, Stone Circles
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT:
Sarah [and her co-facilitator] were really great in creating a supportive and safe environment. You need this environment for this type of introspection.
Leadership Development program participant
FACILITATION:
You did a terrific and thoughtful job of developing the retreat, consulting with staff, designing the event, delivery, and now follow through. I am very pleased and appreciative.
Ann Jacobs
John Jay College
LEADERSHIP CONSULTING:
I can’t say enough good things about Sarah From. I’m a huge fan of her thoughtful and deliberate approach to problem solving.
I’ve shared her contact information with the many, many people I encountered in my work who need her guidance to make life more manageable. I have heard glowing reports about how she helped each person get a handle on their particular challenges and to develop systems to be more productive and less stressed in the future.
As I was developing a new initiative I found Sarah to be an invaluable thought partner. She has an ability to see the challenges, but also offer the approach that I needed to do my best work.
Russ Finkelstein
Idealist.org co-founder
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT:
Sarah is great. She is responsively creative, deliberately methodical, and grounded in the present. Her skills are infectious. I trust Sarah to help me find new ways to do and learn.
S., Justice Reform Advocate
LEADERSHIP COACHING:
Sarah helped me articulate the areas that needed work, create goals, and develop plans to execute. She's an incredible listener and coach, whether it was big philosophical questions or brass tacks skills.
The results speak for themselves. I just had a performance review and my boss was incredibly impressed by the progress I had made. I owe much of that to Sarah.
Rob Levy
Social Change Professional
LEADERSHIP COACHING:
I could not recommend Sarah From more; she is such a wonderful coach!
As a new manager I had many ambitious and wide ranging objectives; Sarah helped me focus in on strategies and develop tools to make my goals tangible and manageable.
Sarah helped me build confidence, think through solutions, and lead with compassion, empathy and thoughtfulness. Our conversations were both reflective and left me with next steps and solutions to move forward.
Lisa Hewitt
Operations Manager, Earthjustice
DUO COACHING:
Sarah helped us surface issues before they became issues, and made our partnership more seamless and successful.
Adam Weisberg, Executive Director
Adam Berman, Founder
Urban Adamah
LEADERSHIP COACHING:
With incredible sensitivity and confidence at once, Sarah reflected back the core truths she heard me share. Her insights were direct and honest, and she continually gave me critical questions that transformed the way I saw myself in my work and in my career.
Rabbi Bec Richman
LEADERSHIP COACHING:
Working with Sarah has helped me grow as a leader and accelerate my career. During the three years I've worked with her, I've tackled some of the biggest challenges of my professional career and I can unequivocally say that she helped me achieve better outcomes for myself, my colleagues, and my organization. I continue to invest in coaching with Sarah because I've seen it return dividends again and again.
Jamie Smith
Young Nonprofit Professionals Network
TEAM DEVELOPMENT:
Thank you Sarah for helping us break through our barriers to move the work forward. I am feeling all of the feelings everyone expressed yesterday for having had the opportunity to go through this process – hope, privilege, gratefulness, and relief.
Legal advocacy organization staff
TEAM DEVELOPMENT:
Our organization is operating with 5x more staff members than we were a handful of years ago. We had never held a retreat before, but it was clear that we needed to dedicate some time to addressing the challenges of being a larger team: communication, feedback, workflow, accountability, and overall trust and rapport. Sarah is an amazingly skilled facilitator and worked tirelessly in advance of the event to come up with a retreat agenda that would serve our organization’s needs. Nothing was boilerplate – everything felt tailored to us. We would love to work with Sarah again in the future and would recommend her to anyone looking to drive change and growth in their organization.
Sean Pica & Lila McDowell
HudsonLink for Higher Ed. in Prison
LEADERSHIP COACHING:
Coaching brought me back to my values and helped me find the way back to myself: a person who loves working, and engaging with employers and colleagues, a person who is enthusiastic and proud of the work I do.
Veronica Martinez
Government Professional
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT:
This retreat has given me the tools to help my leadership be more focused and has given me more confidence to pursue leadership opportunities.
Leadership Development program participant
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Sarah excels at each aspect of what she does - from helping think through how to structure the inner workings of an organization, to coaching staff, to aligning a team and ensuring they are on the same page working towards annual goals --she's truly wonderful.
Lani Santo
Footsteps
FACILITATION:
The opportunity to reflect and have someone point me to ‘potential’ led to a breakthrough in my thinking.
Retreat Participant
LEADERSHIP COACHING:
Sarah is brilliant, personable, and will call you on your B.S.
Russ Agdern
Political Organizer
