Careers Consultancy & Executive Coaching
Expert career and executive coaching to help you make confident decisions, navigate change, and move forward with purpose at every stage of your working life.
Career Change Coaching
- Clarify your direction and long-term goals
- Navigate career transitions successfully
- Identify strengths through evidence-based profiling
- Build a strategy for sustainable, meaningful change
Interview Coaching
- Secure roles aligned with your long-term goals
- Refine your job search strategy
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Improve interview performance and presence
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Communicate your value with clarity and impact
Leadership / Executive Coaching
- Strengthen your impact and influence in the workplace
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Enhance your leadership and mentoring effectiveness
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Increase your visibility and strategic contribution
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Position yourself credibly for promotion
Retirement / Transition Coaching
- Prepare for a meaningful, well planned next chapter
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Generate ideas for what’s next
- Clarify your vision and direction
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Redefine identity, purpose and contribution beyond work
Skills Discovery
Evidence-based strengths and skills assessments that support career progression and leadership impact – bringing clarity, direction, and confidence in your potential.
Motivational Maps®
A unique motivational diagnostic tool for individuals, teams and organisational leaders – unlocking engagement, energy and wellbeing.
I specialise in career transition – from launching a graduate career to planning a confident and purposeful move into retirement. I am passionate about helping people grow, adapt and shine at every stage of their working lives.
I provide expert career and workplace coaching and consultancy to graduates, professionals and senior leaders, including Director and Board level, across the UK and internationally, spanning all sectors and industries.
As an experienced Master Accredited Skills Discovery Practitioner (formerly Strengths Profile) and Licensed Motivational Maps Practitioner, I use evidence-based strengths and motivational diagnostics with personalised debriefs to deepen self-awareness, build confidence and unlock performance.
Whether you are navigating change, preparing for promotion, or designing your retirement transition, I help you strengthen your self-belief, clarify your direction and show up with impact – enabling improved performance, job satisfaction and long-term fulfilment.
I’m emailing to let you know that I’ve landed a full time role for a job I really wanted.
Our coaching session at the start of the year truly prepared me for the applications and interviews that have happened over the last five months.
It helped me reframe my purpose, and not be so obsessed about being ‘a woman of a certain age’ trying to find a job. You have a unique superpower to get the crux of things. It was truly a lightbulb moment on this grey day.
Thanks so much for your wise words, and for editing and sharing these documents – so practical and applicable.
Importantly, it gave me the confidence to decline two roles when they changed the Ts & Cs prior to me signing up. I have never done that before – in the past, I’d have panicked and just signed up.
So I wanted to drop this quick note to simply say thank you.
I had an ultimate goal which was to gain a promotion. I knew I would not be able to do this on my own so I researched the internet to find possible mentors / coaches to help me achieve my goal.
Within a couple of hours, I came across Sarah Robinson who offered a coaching / mentoring service, giving people the tools, they need to succeed in their careers. I read her reviews which were phenomenal so I plucked up the courage to call her via telephone.
I had a 20-minute free in-depth consultation with Sarah to see if we would be able to work together. She told me about her experience with the Civil Service framework and what help she was able to offer me.
I booked a few sessions with Sarah to assist me with the delivery of my answers. Sarah also researched and sent me some sample questions that I could potentially explore answers for. Sarah was very patient throughout the sessions and we focused on the areas I wanted to focus on. She even looked over my written applications and provided me with constructive feedback.
After a couple of months of working with Sarah, I was offered a promotion. I cannot thank Sarah enough for her patience and expertise to help me achieve my goals. I will definitely be using Sarah’s services again when I am ready to enhance my career path even further.
The coaching for me has come at a crucial time in my working and personal life and has seriously kept me from making wrong choices and decisions.
Sarah possesses a very strong sense of calm and makes me feel very relaxed and capable of solving any issue. She has a very calming effect on any scenario. and challenges me without in any way making me feel inadequate or weak. Sarah has a completely pragmatic approach and asks direct questions.
Sarah was excellent. She quickly identified where I needed to improve and provided a clear, structured framework that immediately made interviews feel more manageable. The coaching was practical, engaging and tailored to my needs, leaving me far more confident and better prepared. I would highly recommend Sarah to anyone looking to improve their interview performance.
Sarah coached me through the application and interview process for a non-academic position. Not only did she refresh my memory of good interview technique, she also taught me new ways of handling common interview questions, helping me to stand-out as a candidate. In fact, I found out after my interview that one specific piece of advice Sarah gave me – in relation to speaking openly about what motivates/excites me in interview – had really impressed the panel. I am so pleased to say that, with Sarah’s help, I was successful in securing the first job I interviewed for. Thank you!
As a company, we wanted to give one of our employees the best possible support ahead of an important interview. Sarah’s coaching was outstanding. She equipped “S” with a practical interview framework, significantly boosted his confidence and helped him present himself far more effectively. He came away genuinely upbeat and motivated, and we could clearly see the difference. We were delighted with the outcome and would highly recommend Sarah Robinson Coaching to both individuals and businesses.
I recently had the pleasure of working with Sarah as my career coach, and I cannot recommend her highly enough. Over the course of just a few calls, Sarah helped me immensely in gaining the confidence I needed to succeed in my career journey. Before working with Sarah, I would experience panic attacks in interviews. However, with her guidance and support, I was able to transform my approach and mindset.
Sarah’s coaching was instrumental in helping me secure a training contract at a major law firm. Her techniques and personalized advice were exactly what I needed to overcome my anxiety and present myself effectively to potential employers. Sarah is patient, understanding, and incredibly skilled at identifying and addressing the root causes of career-related challenges.
If you’re looking for a career coach who can truly make a difference, look no further than Sarah. Her impact on my professional life has been nothing short of transformative.
I have worked with Sarah in the 18 months approaching my retirement and although initially I thought the process un-necessary her abilities to encourage you think about the wider picture and the impact not only upon you as an individual but also those around you has been invaluable, thought provoking and totally worthwhile. I would encourage anybody approaching a significant event in their lives professionally or personal to engage with her.
Sarah was great at helping me structure my answers, which I had been struggling with in my previous interviews. The practice questions she prepared were brilliant, and she was patient and encouraging during the mock session. This really helped my confidence, and I was able to get the job I wanted.
I hoped to work out what I really wanted to achieve, and the coaching helped me to see this and how to phrase my goals in a clear, business like way. As I went through the coaching journey, I found I wanted to be more positive and I began concentrating on and highlighting the good aspects of my work style. I’ve gained more confidence in myself and confidence in taking action to achieve my goals in a way that would benefit both myself and the business.
I found that the talking style was very free and I could take the conversation in a way that was right for me. I find the sessions to be very relaxed and beneficial and enjoyed the freedom to discuss any issues I had freely. (The major insight made is…) that I have the ability to improve myself and be an even more productive member of the team, and that I can phrase things slightly differently to communicate in a more business savvy way.
I was hoping the coaching sessions would help me build confidence to perform to the best of my ability in my new role. The coaching has met and exceeded my expectations.
I gained a better understanding for my role within the company, better self-awareness and my confidence has grown significantly. Sarah is brilliant at guiding you through thought processes to achieve the best solutions to often difficult situations.
Over just a few short calls, Sarah prepared me effectively for an interview. She improved my speaking style and advised me on refining my content. I appreciated Sarah’s expertise regarding the law firm interview process, and her friendly, encouraging manner. I was especially grateful for how accommodating Sarah was of my schedule, and for the wealth of helpful materials she prepared for me during our sessions.
I approached Sarah as I was seeking advice on changing careers. Through online calls, motivational maps and assessments, Sarah helped me quickly identify my main strengths and passions.
From this, she provided me with some fantastic career path suggestions, offered helpful guidance for CVs and applications and also boosted my confidence. I now feel more positive about my career journey going forward
I was really struggling with my looming retirement, and had been putting off making any plans or decisions for quite some time. I contacted Sarah to help me come up with structure and strategy to get started.
As I went through the coaching journey, I began to feel more positive and hopeful. I quickly recognised I’d been dragging my heels about leaving work due to fear and lack of clarity about what I really wanted.
Since working with Sarah, I’ve gained more confidence in taking action to achieve my goals and feeling more excited about some of the plans I’ve put in place over the coming months.
When I first began contemplating retirement, my thoughts and emotions were chaotic, veering from excitement to doubt by the minute. Sarah’s warm, grounded coaching offered a fresh perspective. The sessions created a space that felt both safe and constructively challenging. The coaching was further supported by helpful web-based resources, which enabled further reflection and added clarity to the process.
Over the course of the coaching, I took stock of where I was, explored future possibilities, and began taking meaningful action. I can confidently say I’ve made real progress towards making my retirement a success
Working with Sarah has been the most amazing, powerful and enabling experience. She constantly surprises me with her insightfulness and ability to get to the root of my dilemmas, whilst at the same time managing to guide and support me through the maze of thoughts and options.
Our sessions are fun, challenging, thought provoking and of immense value to me.
Although I felt I had read the books, run through the scenarios and felt prepared for retirement, I found working with Sarah filled a lot of gaps in my retirement planning I didn’t realise I had. Some excellent tips, such as the selfie on the last time leaving work, to linkedin tips and suggestions were offered in conjunction with a lot of useful experience from those who had got retirement right with an understandable caveat that each experience is unique to the individual.
Don’t think you need retirement coaching? Think again, it is not possible to be over prepared for one of the biggest life events after all and well worth the investment into getting it right. Sarah makes the sessions engaging and relevant with a huge amount of supporting material. I recommend her without a second’s hesitation.
Sarah helped me to prepare for two very different interviews, the first of which didn’t go ahead due to a company error. She is extremely prompt at sending the preparation materials and so encouraging during the sessions. She really made me realise my strengths and built up my confidence. The second interview, I got the job and I can’t thank her enough for the support!
I had the pleasure to work with Sarah to prepare for my interview. She surprised me with the approach and level of preparation she put into the questions prior to our meeting. The time during the sessions was very efficient and the feedback provided helped me enormously during the interviews. Sarah prepared me for interviews with different stakeholders, hiring manager, up to CEO. I got selected!
What I loved also about coaching with Sarah is that I could remain truly myself during interviews, it is the language and examples I was providing that made me stand out. It was best time and money invested in my life and I am sure it will materialize long term as candidate but also interviewer. Thank you Sarah!
I am delighted to share I have accepted a role and start in the new year!
I also interviewed for a CMO role at the same time and that without your coaching would have never made it through to the 4 round interview stages, unfortunately the other candidate was selected due to having industry experience I didn’t have. When I asked for feedback, they said there was nothing extra I could have done and even text me to say thank you for a ‘Great Interview’ after the 4th round. I would highly recommend you to others.