Sarah is the founder and president of Level Up Leadership, LLC, a coaching, leadership consulting, and curriculum design firm. Sarah works with senior leaders and mid-level managers to maximize their adaptability, sustainability, and potential.
As a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation, with over 1400 executive coaching hours, Sarah brings clarity and compassion to create space in which leaders can do the transformative work of changing patterns and beliefs limit our impact. She is keenly attuned to the inner life of leaders. She is a sought-after keynote speaker on resilience, burnout prevention, and crafting a life you love in leadership
M.Div., PCC, BCC, CDTLF, CDWF-C Sarah’s Alphabet Train: Sarah’s got lots of letters behind her name. Bottomline this means Sarah is always learning and adding rigor to her coaching skills. If you want more details, here they are: Professional Certified Coach, Train the Trainer Certifications, 1600 hours of Clinical Pastoral Education, and Board Chaplain Certification. She earned a Masters of Divinity from Luther Seminary where she was a Presidential Scholar.
Fall 2012: Daring Greatly Training with Brené
Sarah is a Certified Facilitator of all of Dr. Brené Brown’s curricula: Dare to Lead, Daring Greatly, Bold, and The Gifts of Imperfection. Sarah has facilitated over 200 workshops on Dr. Brown’s research and has supported thousands of leaders to dream and live big. Sarah is among those who have been facilitating Brené’s research since the beginning. Sarah has the unique honor of being among just a handful of facilitators dual certified in Dare to Lead and Daring Greatly. In addition to this honor, Sarah was asked by the Daring Way senior leadership to step into greater responsibility eight years ago within Brené’s organization as a Case Consultant supervising candidates through integrating Brené’s research into their context. Sarah is Vice President of Spiritual Life at a large senior healthcare organization headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.
FUN FACTS: Sarah got her afrave on this summer when she sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a nationally televised Twins game. (The recording is at the bottom of this page.) And the Twins won.
Sarah lives on a small farm with her family, a herd of sheep, and three horses that are the best therapy money can buy.
Sarah and her spouse designed and built their home. She can use a plumb bob, wire a house, and the house is still standing!
Sarah put herself through grad school by singing and dancing. . . and cleaning houses.
MN County social service administrators conference, october, 2021
Target Field, Minneapolis, MN
