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About
Hi, I'm Coach Sara, and I'm here to help!
MSEd, ACC, SHRM-SCP, NLI-Brain Based Coaching;
Prosci-Certified Change Practitioner
I often say I’m the luckiest person I know. Every time I leave my office in midtown Manhattan and head home to my small seaside town, I feel it deeply: I get to live a life I truly love.
It’s a life I couldn’t have imagined from where I started.
I was born in upstate New York, into poverty, the anxious, overachieving firstborn of a teenage mother doing her best and a father battling addiction. School was my refuge. My way out. Until life cracked open in hard ways, and I lost my footing entirely—dropping out of high school, taking the bus between waitressing shifts and my apartment in the rough part of the city, letting life happen to me instead of choosing it.
That could have been the end of my story. But even then, I refused to count myself out.

Slowly, painfully, I began again. Night classes for my GED. A twisting road through college with plenty of stumbles, quits and self-doubt. At one crucial moment, when I was ready to quit for good, a single, compassionate professor took the time to see me—and changed everything. Her small act of coaching reminded me I wasn’t alone, and that the story wasn’t over.
That moment lit a spark that has never gone out, and created a role model for the type of guide I wanted to be for others.
I went on to complete my associate’s, then bachelor’s, and eventually a master’s degree. I built my career from the ground up, studying change—both formally and the hard way, through lived experience. Over two decades later, I’m a veteran change strategist, executive coach, and transformation expert.
But my real expertise? I’ve lived change. I know what it feels like to be lost, behind, stuck. I know what it takes to move forward anyway. Today, I help others navigate their own turning points, transformations, and reinventions. I walk beside people through uncertainty and toward their next chapter. My deepest passion is helping women like my own mother once was — capable, generous, struggling — finally have what they need to live out their dreams.
Because I believe no one is ever too late, too much, or too far gone to become the architect of their own future.
If you're ready to talk about your next big change, I’d be honored to help.
Check out my podcast, Range of Change, to hear more stories of pivotal change, and to read more about navigating change successfully, head over to my blog for insights and tools. Reach out for a free consultation if you're ready to get started on your next big change.
What is Coaching?
Professional coaching is a transformative partnership. Through powerful questioning, active listening, and accountable planning and execution, I am here to serve as your collaborator, helping you gain clarity, overcome challenges, develop new skills, and achieve your change objectives. I will be by your side as your find your thrive!

To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch.
To try and understand, To never look away.
And never, never to forget.
Arundhati Roy - The Cost of Living
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