Meet the team

Sarah Mast

  • Generative
  • Wise
  • Energised

Sarah is an experienced organisational development consultant. She is famed for being quick to grasp exactly what clients need, as well as for being bags of fun and having boundless enthusiasm. She thrives in any lively or challenging environment – the more exotic the better!

Sarah Mast

Sarah has a passion for designing learning and development processes that relate to delivering the people-based aspects of an organisation’s agenda. Her interest and talent in this area started during the five years she spent as a consultant specialising in organisational change aimed at bringing the concept of ‘the citizen as customer’ to the public sector – an idea that represented a huge shift in organisational beliefs.

Recognised as being an endless source of ideas and energy at the same time as being pragmatic and results-focused, her recent clients include De Lage Landen, Gucci Group, Philips/NXP Semiconductors, and PwC. Other clients, for whom she has provided organisational, community, team or individual development services, include Anglian Water, Barclays Bank, BP, Care UK, Empire Cinemas, Ernst & Young, FTSE, General Motors, Liverpool Victoria, London Stock Exchange, and RBS.

Sarah also works as Practice Director and Executive Coach in Executive Education at London Business School.

Focus

Qualifications

  • Designing powerful learning and development processes
  • Designing and delivering leadership programmes
  • Delivering development programmes
  • Employing powerful personal experiences in the service of the organisational business agenda
  • Making use of materials from an eclectic range of sources in order to enhance and enliven development programmes
  • MA in Human Resource Development
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching
  • Certificate in the Fundamentals of Systemic Coaching and Constellations
  • Master Practitioner in Accelerated Learning and NLP
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)

Career Highlights

Designing and managing the cultural shift/organisational development process for RBS in the 1980s – helping them put customers first, and move from being seen solely as a Scottish bank to a leading UK banking brand

Designing and leading a global team to deliver a business-linked leadership programme for over 400 senior leaders at Philips/NXP Semiconductors throughout Europe, the US and Asia Pacific

Helping design a programme to engage PwC’s partners from across Central and Eastern Europe in a shift to a new business model

Designing and delivering leadership programmes and intact team development processes at De Lage Landen (part of Rabobank) to support the organisational vision/strategy in Europe, the US, Asia and South America

Running action learning sets on global leadership programmes at Philips and HSBC, and as part of the NHS’s work introducing a coaching culture

Designing and delivering leadership development programmes, global leadership conferences and team coaching for Gucci Group across Europe, Singapore, the US and Australia

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Many, many thanks Sarah to you for creating and facilitating a fantastic programme for the leadership team. My mind is still buzzing with thoughts and ideas and I’m confident that we have now established a real momentum. I will send further thoughts when I’ve had an opportunity to digest but wanted to take the first opportunity to voice my appreciation for your effort, professionalism and commitment.
Acting CEO, education sector

Other team members

Richard Boston
  • Strategic
  • Inventive
  • Ally
Richard, LeaderSpace’s Managing Director, has a special interest in the systemic issues facing teams and organisations, and is passionate about helping leaders, their teams and their organisations fulfil their potential. His love of learning and wide experience ensures he always brings fresh insight to every project. To relax he runs up and down muddy hills.
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Bernard Cooke
  • Insightful
  • Provocative
  • Humour
Bernard is a Chartered Business Psychologist and accredited executive coach – and often works as a supervisor to other coaches. He has a dry, self-deprecating sense of humour and a unique way of challenging that provokes insight rather than defensiveness. His special interests include resilience and red wine.
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Shefali Sharma
  • Passionate
  • Warm
  • Supportive
Shefali is highly knowledgeable in psychology and emotional intelligence, and sees right to the core of issues. She is a Chartered Psychologist with a special interest in neuroscience. Shefali has an insatiable appetite for learning and is a warm, giving person. She has helped rear lions and tigers – and has the scars to prove it.
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Natasha Graham
  • Perceptive
  • Attentive
  • Organised
Natasha combines rigorous ethical standards with a highly perceptive interpersonal style. Her passion lies in uncovering authenticity in individuals, teams and organisations to enable true change and continuous growth. Her love of the countryside and her personal discipline in practicing ballet keeps her on her toes outside of work.
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Hanane Gamhiouen
  • Creative
  • Immersive
  • Fun
Hanane helps people and organisations to be their best selves in times of uncertainty and change. When she’s not working with clients she’s travelling the world immersing herself in indigenous cultures, experimenting with non-ordinary states of consciousness or in warm waters scuba diving.
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Anna Heywood
  • Incisive
  • Understanding
  • Relaxed
Anna blends a relaxed, approachable style with perceptive, incisive questioning rooted in a deep understanding of human nature. She finds her passion for life-long learning is met in equal measures by her work and her role as a parent.
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Claire Davey
  • Centred
  • Holistic
  • Enabling
Claire brings diversity of thought and experience, wonderful vitality and a great sense of humour. Her warmth and compassion help her clients quickly feel safe, enabling them to bring their whole selves to the work they’re doing together.
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Anna Crollick
  • Kind
  • Supportive
  • Astute
Anna is passionate about enabling people to find greater clarity of purpose, meaning and happiness at work. Her approach is rooted in psychological rigour and insight. She’s also fascinated by the impact visual images can have on coaching and often draws on art-based approaches to enable more profound awareness and impact.
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Sarah Perrott
  • Pragmatic
  • Energetic
  • Commercial
Sarah is energetic and positive, with a warm, engaging style and a focus on values. She helps create the energy and self-belief that enables senior leaders to grow and succeed. She loves walking along the River Thames and is passionate about yoga, aiming to maintain flexibility in body, mind and spirit!
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Ken Rowley
  • Friendly
  • Thoughtful
  • Questioning
Ken is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, who loves helping people gain greater meaning and happiness from their work. He has a passion for life-long learning and a drive to support others in their developmental journeys. He loves to use stories to bring concepts to life and to engage his audience.
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Angelina Bennet
  • Rigorous
  • Warm
  • Curious
Angelina is known for her innovative approach to developing effective, productive leaders and her award-winning change leadership. While her work is rigorously backed by research, she engages with a combination of perceptive questioning and a warm, personable, non-judgemental style. As a music obsessive, when not at a gig, Angelina can be found playing guitar, practising yoga or tap dancing.
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Jabiz Parvardin
  • Energising
  • Inclusive
  • Soul
Jab has a huge passion for helping people become the best they can be. He is an engaging natural communicator, skilled in getting teams excited about positive change. He’s a keen golfer and lover of sport. He also loves exploring different cultures and creative arts.
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