Sarah Tocker

Activate Facilitator

Sarah has been working as a coach and facilitator for over ten years with a background in leadership development, systems leadership, culture and change.  She is particularly interested in helping organisations’ thrive in times of change and adaptation.

Sarah works with people wanting to influence or lead well in complex or challenging situations, as well as those focused on making the good exceptional.  She coaches and facilitates conversations that make organisations better; ones that equip their people to respond capably to change; to genuinely nurture employees and to confidently face hard choices.

Her experience across corporate, not for profit and Government organisations across New Zealand has seen her provide support in the following areas:

  • Leadership development
  • Strategic thinking and planning
  • Mentoring and coaching
  • Change management and leading through change
  • Transition
  • Communication
  • Dealing with conflict
  • Feedback and courageous conversations
  • Career development

Sarah’s work is informed by post-graduate study in Education and Leadership and ongoing professional development but stays free of jargon and management fads. She has a honed ability to ground theory in practice, making ideas applicable to the everyday life of complex organisations.

Sarah is known as a straight talker with an ability to see the core issues and enable groups and individuals to work on these in a safe and meaningful way.

Sarah accreditations include:

  • IECL Team Coach
  • The Leadership Circle
  • TMI profiling
  • R@W Resilience
  • Immunity to Change
  • Genos EI 360
  • When Cultures Meet
  • Lominger

MEET THE TEAM

Katie Bhreatnach

Chief Executive Officer

Pippa Grey

Head of Partnerships and Engagement

Merran Brockie-David

Head of Events and Membership

Noah Whaiapu

Head of Programme and Leadership

Anna Rowland

Administrator

Sabrina Gates

Research Support and Administrator

Penny Harrison

Lead Facilitator - Activate

Anya Satyanand

Director of Women in Leadership

Kathryn Scordino

Activate Facilitator

Priyani de Silva-Currie MNZM

Rōpū Lead - Kanorau

Jaydene Buckley

Rōpū Lead - Māori

Mary Los’e

Rōpū Lead - Pasifika

Markerita Poutasi

Rōpū Lead - Pasifika

Andrea Blair

Rōpū Lead - Entrepreneurs

Jenni Prisk

Regional Member's Lead - Northland

Donna Cooper

Regional Member's Lead - Taranaki

Gerri Ward

Regional Member's Lead - Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington

Fiona McTavish

Regional Member's Lead - Bay of Plenty

Anna Johnstone

Regional Member's Lead - Ōtautahi Christchurch

Trish Oakley

Regional Member's Lead - Dunedin