Business Coach and Advisor for Middle Management
The backdrop for leadership is
constantly changing.
Change provides the opportunity to advance your business ​
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The post-pandemic developments continue to dramatically alter the way we work: ​
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Evolution of Leadership: Shifting from the traditional command-and-control leadership to a more connected leadership that listens to diverse perspectives, asks critical questions and creates better business decisions
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Flatter Organizational Structures: Organizations are increasingly able to move faster with operating flatter hierarchies
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Inclusive Strategy Development: Once exclusively the C-Suite’s role, strategy can be improved through critical thinking and closer alignment of the strategy and the eis shifting toward involving employees closer to the customers
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RTO Work Environments: Leaders and teams need to rebuild working relationships, release their frustrations and with the past and re-set their conversation with a focus on building a team to face the challenges and opportunities in the future.
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Navigating Change: Leaders and teams alike with influence and cross-functional relationships are best equipped to help their teams navigate change
Constant Change Requires Greater Strength & Flexibility:
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It’s time to balance the leadership responsibilities between the C-Suite that excels and leading strategy, and the managers who excel at leading people to align the execution and fine tune the strategy for more impactful results
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Working exclusively with middle managers for the past five years I understand what they need in order to:
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Become more strategic leaders balancing their subject matter expertise with their team cheerleader role, and be more accountable for analytical and data-driven results
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Manage up as effectively as they manage their team
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Increase their leadership presence to provide greater value and increase their promotability
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Rebuild their team and scale for growth through expectations and accountability without micromanaging
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Rescope their role impacted by layoffs, reorganizations, M&As
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Improve their communication skills to increase their leadership effectiveness
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Increase their value to the C-Suite and improve their contributions to the organization
A Track Record of Success
“I met Sayre at a presentation she made to a group of business professionals. It only took me only a short time to decide that I had to meet her. Sayre has a unique way of getting your attention, developing a roadmap, and engaging her audience.
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And while working with her as a consultant with my employer, I was able to see her talent in laying out a bold strategy and helping executives understand what to communicate, to whom, and how. She asks those difficult questions that many others shy away from, all the while challenging and guiding companies through challenge and growth."
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Managing Director, StoneX
“Sayre is a consummate professional who provides exceptional insights that facilitate both professional and organizational growth. She brings both depth and breadth of experience to her work and she is professional in all of her interactions. She is a talented individual who makes sound, strategic decisions and who contributes to every team that she's a part of."
- Senior Director, Higher Education
“Sayre has an incredible ability to understand organizational culture and leverage that understanding to create highly effective messages. She worked on communications to our campus about a change to our academic advising model. There were many facets to the change, and Sayre was able to craft a message that spoke to a varied audience of faculty and staff. Her help was instrumental in the success of the transition.”
- Senior VP Director, Strategic Retention Programs, Higher Education
“I had the opportunity of working with Sayre on a project where her strong communication skills and her ability to shift the group into ‘new thinking’ was advantageous in shaping our conversations. She has the ability to ask timely questions that helped us develop other perspectives. Sayre has a direct sense of humor that is refreshing when tackling some tough conversations – her sense of timing released a burst of energy into the process. I am excited to work with Sayre on future projects!”
- Vice President Partnerships & Growth, Association
“After more than six years of continuous growth, we realized that we needed to make some strategic moves to capitalize on what we had accomplished. And we needed to make them fast, without slowing down our day-to-day operations. ​As innovative business owners, we found it was difficult to constantly implement our big ideas because of logistical constraints and manage our fear that existing quality will be lowered during periods of strategic change.
After months of partnering with Sayre Darling, we no longer have those fears. She has given us the know-how, the tools, and the implementation plans to change our business for the better. Our relationship with Sayre has even helped us make changes in areas that we would have missed on our own.”
- Independent Financial Planners