Coaching Practice
Sarah François-Poncet works with individuals to address their professional challenges and achieve their highest potential.
Her practice is driven by her passion for helping and contributing to the wellbeing of others. She invokes her own experience as appropriate to accelerate her clients’ growth and potential. For women clients, Sarah endeavors to serve as the senior female role model that she herself would have benefited from on her own professional journey.
Sarah’s clients come from a broad range of working environments including corporations, law, financial services and architectural firms. They are employees, business founders or actors in the beauty, sports, and entertainment industries. She has worked with people at all hierarchical levels, from interns to CEOs, on several continents.
Sarah’s clients are seeking help in addressing professional challenges that include work-life boundaries, assuming management or leadership roles and addressing conflicts with bosses, peers or direct reports, as well as managing other work-related concerns that create obstacles to fulfillment.
Transitions, e.g., professional pivots, promotions, retirement, or exiting or entering a business, are a frequent focus.
With the understanding that professional fulfillment has a positive impact on personal wellbeing, coaching with Sarah will impact a client beyond their professional sphere.
Having grown up in the United States, lived and worked for half her life in France and dealt with business matters around the globe, Sarah is well-versed in addressing cultural issues that arise in international environments. Bilingual, she is comfortable working in English or in French.
Sarah is committed to her ethical responsibilities as a coach, which include familiarity with and commitment to applicable ethical guidelines, supervision, peer support and continued learning.
“Working with Sarah is a true pleasure! She was able to clearly mirror back my situation and identify the core problems, while bringing me on a journey to better understand myself and move me out of a place of confusion and into a place of strength. I love how she encouraged me to listen to my emotions as data points and I truly appreciated how she brought in her own professional career as insights. I would not be in the place of calmness and clarity about my work situation without her guidance.“
-JK, social entrepreneur, Mexico City