Mike‘s Search For Meaning #68 - Sarah Tocker on Courage, Asking Hard Questions, and Creating Space at the Table for Everyone
Sarah’s bio is as follows:
I am Tangata Tiriti, with ancestry from Scotland and Cornwall, and I live in Kāpiti, just outside of Wellington, with my partner and three daughters. My children and partner whakapapa to
Ngāti Hine and Ngāti Manu.
I have been working as a coach and facilitator for sixteen years with a background in
leadership development, systems leadership, culture and change. I’m particularly interested
in helping people and organisations thrive in times of flux and adaptation, and in supporting
leaders to create lasting improvements, personally and organisationally.
I coach individuals and teams and am interested in important and challenging conversations.
I am 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.
I have led teams across public, private, and not for profit sectors over the past 20 years,
from operations to People and Capability roles and make a point of taking on a contract
leadership role every few years to ensure that my understanding of leadership in action to
accurate and helpful to my clients.
A lot of the work I have done in recent years has drawn on an ongoing focus of connecting
leadership in place, and draws on key concepts of Te Aō Māori, including The Te Kore-Te Pō
– Te Wheiao – Te Ao Mārama as a frame for disruption and the phases we must work
through to lead effectively.
I have worked with leaders from very diverse backgrounds, serving a wide range of
stakeholder groups, and work with clients to make sense of their own culture within their
context and how this can be used to support them from a strengths-based perspective.
Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Just Speak. Any and all donations make a difference!
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