Creating Great Leaders
We’re here to help you lead
After years of personal and professional experience, Sarah Smith founded Indigo Leadership to help individuals and teams reach their full potential. We work with organisations and individuals who have a strong sense of social value. With our tailored training and coaching you’ll unearth renewed confidence and tactics to help your business thrive.
Thoughts on Leadership
Handle your Leadership challenges
Get clarity
What’s your vision? And what are the goals along the way?
Boost your confidence
Understand the essence of you and how this can help navigate tricky situations
Learn to lead
Develop the skills and emotional intelligence to take people with you
Build a great team
Create a collaborative and high-performing team who lead with you
Our Clients
What our clients are saying
Fiona Deal
Executive Director of Business Transformation, Network Homes
“Indigo’s management and leadership programmes have been a key part of our bigger culture and people strategy. In the first year of working with Sarah, we’ve saved £104.8K in absence costs, staff turnover has decreased by 5%, saving £220K on our recruitment budget and we’ve had an estimated increase of 15% in internal recruitment. Not bad for the first year of a three-year strategy.”
David Evans
Director of People and HR, Shelter
“Working through our profiles has given us personal insight into our preferred styles. It has also opened our eyes to the potential pitfalls we face as a team and given us a platform from which to develop ground rules about how we will work together. Sarah ran an excellent team away day for us where we began creating our team charter, something we can measure ourselves against as team development continues. The Indigo coaches, Mary, Barry, Chris and Sarah are already making their mark with us. Several of the team had reservations about coaching and have been won over by the sensitive support, challenge and relevance of their first sessions. As with all charities, we need to make sure we are using our resources wisely and although early days and we have no hard data yet, first impressions of the return on investment are good. As one colleague said, ‘I have no-one to talk to about some of these issues. This has been far more useful than I expected’. We see coaching as integral to our leadership approach, acting as a sounding board as we develop and then implement our new strategy, helping us prepare for change, deal with any fall out and taking people with us on the next stage of Shelter’s development. We have been particularly impressed by Sarah’s commitment to helping us dove-tail our development as a team with the timeline we have for developing the new strategy and her flexibility to make sure Indigo delivers what serves us best”.
Georgina Parker
Global Head of Creative Content, Save the Children
“You made it possible for me to get a job I wouldn't have dreamt of applying for two years ago. They said that I "knocked them out of their shoes" during the interview process, which is in no small part down to the coaching I received from you - the new leadership approaches I have adopted and the skills I now recognise within myself. Thank you so much for all your help and support. I wouldn't have done it without you“
Tracey Webb
Director of People and Culture, Network Homes
“Sarah and her team always deliver more than expected. Their generous approach has made an enormous difference to our managers and leaders. We’re seeing far more cross functional team work and confidence among our managers with many saying this has been the best leadership and management training they have ever done (100% have rated it either very good or excellent). Sarah and her team are responsive, thoughtful and creative in their approach and our people value Sarah’s own relaxed yet challenging style. I am personally grateful to Sarah for helping me make little tweaks to my own style that have a had big impact”
Darren Doherty
CEO, Pioneer Underwriting (subsidiary of Minova)
“Sarah worked with all my frustrations in the first three years of setting up. In that time our turnover increased from £2.5 million to £19 million and staff increased from 1 to 80. Sarah challenged my thinking and made a real difference to my ability to sustain the pace”
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