About – Sarah Higgins

About Sarah Higgins

Sarah Higgins will maximise your performance and profit with bespoke 121 Corporate/Executive Coaching and Leadership Team development.

Professional
Expertise

Senior director, specialising in corporate coaching, maximising performance through people and getting results through leadership.
Wealth of experience in coaching senior leaders within corporate businesses.
From no prior HR infrastructure in place, Sarah worked with the Oval* board to create, drive and deliver the HR strategy that drove business success and saw its development to a £120m turnover business through organic growth and via 32 acquisitions in 5 years.
Proven experience in driving and implementing change whist developing and improving team performance.

Wealth of experience in maximising performance as a result of restructures, acquisitions, integration and outsourcing
Previously produced results through people, within Northern Foods, AstraZeneca, Boots the Chemists and The Royal Bank of Scotland Group before spending 8 years as the HR Director for the *Oval Group, an Insurance Broking and Financial Advisory Group.
Employed by the Ministry of Justice as a Member of the Employment Tribunals since 2002.
Non-Executive Director with the Leicestershire Clockwise Credit Union since 2008.

Education, Qualifications & Professional
Positions

Masters Level Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching.
ILM Level 7 Certificate in Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring.
First Class Honours Degree in Business Studies.
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD).
Practitioner in Hogan Assessments.

Practitioner in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming).
Practitioner in MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator).
Member of the International Coach Federation.
HR Assessor for the CIPD.
Mentor for the Aspire Foundation.

Companies I have worked with:

These are some of the companies I have had the pleasure to work with:
I am also proud to be a preferred supplier to UK Sport

My Values

1

You

My goal is to help you be as successful as you want to be and I will support you in getting the results you want.

2

Change

If you want things to be better or different – I will challenge you to make decisions to achieve that change.

3

Honest

You may not like the ‘mirror’ that I hold up to you, but you will value my honesty because I am helping you achieve results that work for you.

4

Results

In a confidential setting, I will assist you to have realisations that in order to maximise your business or your team’s performance – it starts with you.

5

Leadership

If you lead in a way that enables your staff to be completely engaged and motivated with what they are doing, they will go the extra mile for you and your customers.