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Sarah is an exceptionally versatile contributor to our business, competent in may areas of people development and committed to high value service provision

Managing Director, private company

Sarah is incredibly insightful, challenging and empathetic

Corporate coaching client

sarah gilbert

Sarah is a highly qualified executive and career coach, supervisor, mentor and workplace counsellor with 20 years’ consulting experience in human resources and organisational development.

Sarah’s earlier career included human resources management roles within the NatWest Group, Hay Group and Touche Ross, followed by senior consulting roles with KPMG and Penna. Since 1993 Sarah has enjoyed a portfolio of organisational consulting, coaching and counselling assignments, working independently and through complementary associate-ships, tutoring on professional and academic programmes and providing supervision and mentoring for professional helpers in community agencies, charities and business networks.

Since co-founding Apsley Associates, Sarah has continued her professional development through advanced coach and supervisor training, diverse client experience, contributions to executive coaching research and active participation in specialist conferences and workshops. She is valued by those with whom she works for her analytical and intuitive strengths, respectful curiosity and genuineness.

Sarah’s qualifications include: Certified Master Coach, Certificate in Coach Supervision, MSc Counselling, BA English. Her professional memberships include: Association for Coaching (AC Member), Association of Coaching Supervisors (AOCS Qualified Member), Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (Chartered FCIPD), British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (RegMBACP), British Psychological Society (AffilBPS).

Sarah’s current expertise includes:

executive coaching
coach supervision
professional mentoring
career transition
workplace counselling
talent management
leadership development