Sarah Newnham

Sarah Newnham

“I am inspired by supporting leaders who are passionate about bringing positive change through their work. Having worked in the humanitarian sector for many years, I know how important it is to develop personal resilience in the midst of busy and uncertain environments. I love to help leaders explore their potential, grow in confidence, and thrive in their leadership, whatever the circumstances.”

Background

Sarah is a leadership coach, trainer and strategy consultant working with managers and leaders predominantly in the not-for-profit sector.  She specialises in supporting individuals and organisations in developing strategy, managing change, building personal wellbeing, working well in multicultural teams and maximising leadership potential.  Formerly a Regional Director for an international development organisation, Sarah brings 20 years’ experience in setting up and leading humanitarian programmes through multicultural teams and local organisations across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. 

Qualifications

Sarah has a BSC in International Management from University of Manchester, and a MSc in International Development from London School of Economics.  She is also an Associate Certified Coach from the International Coaching Federation.

Examples of recent work

As a founder CEO, Gary’s responsibilities have spanned organisational development, operational management, governance and coaching high performance teams whilst overseeing core business functions such as finance, strategy, HR, communications and fundraising.  Providing effective leadership across all these disciplines has taught Gary a great deal about building successful teams and organisations.  As a coach and facilitator, he has had opportunities to work with individuals and teams to develop new partnerships, integrate teams during mergers and support the development of organisational strategies. Primarily his work is focussed on leadership development through coaching.

Examples of recent work

  • Coaching – leaders and emerging leaders across a number of non-profit organisations including International Health Partners, Leicester University, Medair and Tearfund.
  • Research – cross-cultural dimensions in coaching; the effects of remote working on women.
  • Training – trained organisations in the use of coaching approaches for effective management; managing through change; and developing personal resilience.
  • Strategy – supported non-profit organisations in strategic redesigns, recent clients are Tearfund and Orchid Project.
  • Leadership – led multicultural teams, envisioned strategy, generated funds, and set up operations across 20+ countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
Waverley Learning are very vested in what they’re doing, very committed. They’re dynamic individually and collectively, they are 100% invested to the learners when they go into a program, it really is a sense of ownership of the experience that I don’t necessarily always see with every other vendor or learning partner that we use.
Lisa Smisek - Director of Learning, Kearney
There’s a credibility and a humility that you just sense when you’re engaging with Waverley Learning. I’m personally very drawn to that.
Karen Brown - Director of People and Talent, Tearfund
It is the extent to which Waverley Learning understood all the requirements, the innovation that they brought, the talent they brought. Their whole style takes the frantic pace at which we work out of the equation, the messages comes through really clearly. They’ve tuned into the challenges of our organization and made observations that have given us added value. It’s always based on our needs.
Alison Maher - Head of Learning, GWR
Their Developing Skills course consistently gets the best feedback of any standard developmental course that we offer. They’re clearly doing something right in terms of engagement, for those individuals to realise their own development within that situation. Waverley Learning listen to what’s going on, the chats that they’re having with my colleagues. They’re able to play that back, this is what’s going on in your business. As an organization, they provide great insight into to us.
John Probert - Director, Mercer
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