Who's Making a Difference?

Sarah Mellor

About Sarah Mellor

Sarah Mellor, founder and principal of Start Making A Difference, is a qualified executive coach and experienced strategy consultant. She specialises in senior executive and main-board leadership coaching, performance improvement and senior outplacement support.

Sarah has over 20 years of corporate experience, working as a banking analyst, management consultant, marketing strategist and executive coach in the professional, public and financial services sectors.

Her former employers and clients include:

  • The Bank of England
  • The British Library
  • John Stork (Korn Ferry)
  • Peter Chadwick Ltd
  • Ernst & Young
  • J O Hambro Investment Management
  • Alix Partners

Sarah has BACP*-accredited post-graduate qualifications in systemic therapy and performance improvement/psychological coaching. She is also an accredited Belbin assessor and a member of the Association for Coaching.

*British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy

About our partners

Start Making A Difference works with a range of talented strategic partners to deliver coaching solutions to corporate and individual clients, including:

  • wayforwardcoaching.com
  • Kay White is principal of wayforward coaching who specialise in executive coaching and NLP training developing middle-management communication and influencing skills. Kay is also an experienced facilitator of inter-active workshops and events.

  • Vision4Change
  • John Kimber is founder of vision4 change who specialise in working with individuals and groups to release their creativity and facilitate personal and organisational change.

  • Gholdenphish
  • Amanda Baines is co-founder of Gholdenphish coaching and consulting. She works with CEOs and senior management who want to be effective leaders of high performing teams.

  • BIG SKY
  • Paul Boross leads bigsky.me and is probably the world's only presentations/pitch specialist and business trainer to have real front-line experience of both motivational psychology and high profile television/stage presentation and comedy.