ABOUT US
We bring over two decades of experience helping individuals and teams thrive.
Our mission is to empower leaders to reach their optimal performance and fulfilment.
Our unique approach focuses on whole-person leadership, recognising that a leader’s ability to connect with their team, inspire innovation and positively impact performance is deeply intertwined with their own happiness.
That means we don’t just focus on refining leadership skills, we help individuals find their most authentic voices, align their values with their roles, and lead with authenticity and a deep connection to their purpose. Our expertise extends to bringing teams together, fostering connection and cohesion and creating a workplace where everyone thrives.
We are now a small team of highly skilled and experienced coaches, facilitators, and communication specialists, who all share in the belief of whole-person leadership. Together, we’re creating a legacy of transformative leadership, nurturing both professional success and personal fulfilment. Our aim is to create a brighter future, not just for your organisation but for you and your team as whole individuals.
I’m Sarah Perugia – a whole-person leadership transformation specialist, expert women in leadership coach, and campaigner for gender equality. Over the last two decades, I’ve had the privilege of working with diverse teams and individuals across the globe, empowering them to advance their careers, build confidence, enhance performance, and ultimately flourish and thrive.
My background as a professional actor uniquely positions me to teach leaders about presence, communication, and confidence – skills honed on the stage but crucial in the boardroom.
Alongside my extensive coaching qualifications and accreditations, I am also a Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner and trained in Positive Psychology, and Strengths-based Coaching.
I have a long track record of bringing this whole-person approach into my leadership development work achieving incredible results for both teams and individuals.
effortless
I cannot recommend Sarah highly enough! Having no previous experience working with our company, and with minimal input from our team, she designed and delivered a programme that not only ticked all the boxes but was a cultural fit that felt like she had spent years working with us. Sarah effortlessly incorporated our culture, language and key concepts such as strengths into her workshops.
In short, Sarah is diligent, insightful, engaging, warm, patient and professional in every way, I’m looking forward to our next project together.
Bridie Stevens
EMEAL Learning and Engagement at NTT Data
tailored
It’s been an absolute pleasure to partner with Sarah. What was great for us, was that her workshops are highly tailorable, so they tackle the challenges you are facing as a business head-on. Sessions are interactive with a good balance of theory and practice. On top of that, Sarah is brilliant at reading the room and can feel if energy is dropping and you may need to refuel.
She is easy to talk to, professional, organised, genuinely a lovely person to be around and always makes us feel like her number one client. It’s like you became part of our company.
Eva Morgan
Head of People at Brandpie
OUR TEAM
Claire Burgess
Claire Burgess
Leadership Coach
Claire is an experienced Leadership Coach specialising in empowering female leaders across diverse business types, from start-ups to larger organisations. Her coaching has enabled women to secure promotions, new leaders to establish themselves and build relationships with their teams, and established leaders to respond strategically to business changes.
Claire’s coaching encompasses leading others, managing relationships, emotional Intelligence, assertiveness, and well-being.
Julia Montague
Julia Montague
Communication Skills Coach
Julia is a qualified Speech and Drama Coach and her background in professional acting equips her with a unique and powerful skill set to coach and facilitate leaders in communicating with gravitas and confidence. Over the past eighteen years, she has worked with businesses across a range of sectors including Pharmaceutical, Retail and Finance.
Julia’s energetic, humble, and humorous approach empowers clients to step out of their comfort zone and deliver impactful messages with confidence.
Andy Capie
Andy Capie
Coach & Facilitator
Andy is a versatile and focused Coach and Facilitator with a successful background in acting, presenting, and sports commentary. He excels in designing and delivering workshops, drawing upon effective communication skills and storytelling.
His diverse delivery repertoire includes leadership and management development, change management, personal impact, presentation skills and communication.
Emma Kedge
Emma Kedge
Communication Consultant, Facilitator, Business Actor & Coach
Emma is a highly experienced Facilitator, Business Actor, and Coach with over 20 years of experience across a wide range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, finance, sport and healthcare.
She excels in building excellent rapport and trust, enabling her to deliver challenging feedback, encourage behavioural change and gain tangible results. Her main focus of work is on communication, personal impact and storytelling.and Facilitator with a successful background in acting, presenting, and sports commentary. He excels in designing and delivering workshops, drawing upon effective communication skills and storytelling.
His diverse delivery repertoire includes leadership and management development, change management, personal impact, presentation skills and communication.
Our Values
Inclusion
Inclusion means creating spaces where everyone is heard, invited in, and every story is valued. We ensure our clients feel empowered to be their authentic selves.
Connection
Connection is at the heart of what we do. We prioritise genuine relationships, open communication, and a sense of belonging where everyone can thrive.
Curiosity
We embrace curiosity. We help cultivate workplace cultures that encourage ongoing exploration, learning, and innovation through the power of curiosity.
engaging & energising
Our Whole-Person Leadership Development workshop was such a relevant day of learning, with insight and tools that apply to my role and style of leadership, and with clear approaches that could be used directly with my team. The day flew by, and was delivered in such an engaging way, with lots of interaction throughout. I also enjoyed the experience you brought from your acting career and the exercises that helped energise and refocus the group, with plenty of laughter. A great illustration of how being pushed outside our comfort zones builds our strength(s)!
Rebecca Brown
Senior Business Development Manager at Henley Business School
outstanding
Sarah takes the time to really understand the business and individual participant needs and as a result the feedback has been outstanding. She has a fantastic ability to work with a wide variety of people of different grades and styles and ensures they all have personalised feedback to take forward. We have seen our directors and staff increase in confidence and performance across a number of areas and look forward to more of them having the opportunity to work with Sarah.
Claire Davis
Director for Learning and Development at Smith and Williamson