Getting to the heart
of the matter

Keeping your head
while all others are
losing theirs

Expert in organisational
dynamics

What I do...

I am a psychoanalyst, organisational consultant and executive coach.  I work with individuals, groups, whole organisations and wider systems to get to develop insight  and maximise potential.

What interests me...

In addition to my clinical work, I am particularly interested in interpersonal and organisational dynamics and the way in which these elements  impact organisational effectiveness. 

What my clients say...

I have been working with Sarah for over three years. Sarah has been invaluable in helping me lead Quantifi through a period of unprecedented turmoil in the financial markets. Sarah’s approach goes beyond traditional management consulting to really make a difference in the way organisations work. I thoroughly recommend Sarah.

CEO, Quantifi

Sarah's range of skills, her expertise as a facilitator, tutor and trainer make her an invaluable and talented provider of consultancy, executive coaching and organisational change programmes. It is a privilege to know Sarah.

Member of Executive Coaching Programme

I've had the privilege of knowing Sarah Miller professionally in multiple roles: as course tutor; coaching supervisor; colleague. She excels in them all. She has ably blended her MBA training and management background with her knowledge and experience of systems psychodynamic theory and method to create an approach that both packs a punch and is delivered with a light touch. She is both personable and no-nonsense. She exudes authenticity, pragmatism, and competence, with not a whiff of pretention. I recommend her unreservedly.

Sarah is a real expert in delivering strong and experiential learning and a fantastic tutor in the systems psychodynamic approach to coaching. Sarah really supported me in my coaching work and I highly recommend both her and the programme for coaches who wish to develop and enhance their coaching skills.

Sarah’s leadership is thoughtful, sensitive and solid

Colleague Samantha

Sarah has a direct, charismatic and empathetic style

Charlotte, Senior Executive in FMCG

Sarah has been instrumental in the success of our EMCC accredited Executive Coaching Programme and continues to be a valued memeber of our Programme Faculty where her extensive experience as an executive coach and supervisor continues to inform the programme's development. As an Executive Coach working with our clients, Sarah is consistently valued for her ablity to engage with the more complex and difficult aspects of leadership.
As my coach supervisor, Sarah is helping me to acknowledge and overcome the challenges in my continuous develoment as a coach, enhancing my well being and self confidence. She performs her role gently and compassionately. Sarah's listening and psychological presence makes me feel she is fully there for me. I am very thankful for her time, involvement and commitment to my professional growth. 
Sarah really helped me decode what was going on for me in my work life. After seeing her, I feel like I can breathe again and approach work with a new level of energy and focus.
Five years of psychoanalysis with Ms Miller helped me discover who I was (and wasn't), as well as what really made me genuinely happy (and unhappy). Thanks to her considered and generous thoughtfulness, I learned where - and with whom - I might belong in the world. I cannot thank her enough for helping me get to where I am today: our time together was utterly transformational, and I still retain the ripples of her interpretations in my mind even now.

About Me

I am a psychoanalyst working with patients from once weekly to five times a week.

In my organisational work, I have an international portfolio specialising in executive coaching, supervision, leadership development and change management.

I have worked at a number of top international business schools including INSEAD and have directed and staffed a number of Group Relations Conferences.

Although I initially trained as a clarinetist with a Bachelor of Music, I always had an innate interest in people and decided to cultivate this by becoming a manager. I joined a nationally renowned management training scheme, which provided me with the opportunity to work in complex and politically turbulent organisations. Through this I took responsibility for managing diverse services and major change programmes.

During my time as a manager, I completed an MBA and a prestigious leadership development programme. It was through various management roles that I became particularly interested in organisational dynamics, something that has taken me to where I am today.

As a manager, I noticed how services and staff were often sabotaged by complex relationships. Wanting to get to grips with this, I completed an MA at the Tavistock in Organisational Consultancy and decided to become a Consultant to individuals, teams, and organisations that found themselves in difficulty. In 2002 I joined the Tavistock Consultancy Service as an organisational consultant.

In 2012, I set up Sarah Miller Consulting. I have published and presented work about leadership, laterality in the work place, the coaching task and other subjects.

As my practice developed,  I often found myself thinking about the patient behind the executive that I was working with. I wanted to work in more depth and clincially. This ultimately led to me training further to become a psychoanalyst. 

Psychoanalysis

You may choose to come to psychoanalysis for a variety of reasons. For the most part you will seek therapy beause you feel stuck or trapped in some difficulty. This can help you to understand how your patterns can cause difficulties. The opporutnity to develop understanding and meaning will offer you some relief and perhaps help you to break some of these patterns. I encourage my patients to bring whatever is on their mind and to free associate. 

Examples of the kind of psychological difficulties that I can help with are:

  • anxiety
  • depression
  • problems in relationships

I offer an initial series of consultations (usually two) where I invite you to describe why you are here and what your difficulties are. This provides an opportunity for me to learn about you and to see if and how I can work with you and for you to get a bit of a sense of how treatment will feel. Through this consultation, it will become clear what treatment would be most appropriate and the frequency of it. 

Therapy is open ended and each session lasts 50 minutes at the same time and on the same day each week. I offer intensive treatment (four or five times a week on the couch) but also can offer less intense treatment (twice or once a week face to face). I recommend in person treatment. However, I do work remotely with patients who are based abroad. 

To find out more about psychoanalysis with me,  please Get in Touch.

Executive Coaching

I have a proven track record in coaching leaders and senior executives across commercial, public and not for profit organisations. My approach to coaching is to work in depth and feedback from my clients indicates that my coaching “reaches parts” that other coaches don’t reach.

Examples of the kind of issues that I can address include:

  • Managing a transition into a more senior position
  • The first 100 Days
  • Taking up a leadership role
  • Building effective relationships
  • Addressing issues of low self esteem or confidence
  • Tackling difficult team dynamics
  • Leading change
  • Resolving stressful situations
  • Stakeholder and relationship management
  • Career transition
  • Conflict management
  • Impact and resilience

Team Development

The concept of team is evolving. It’s more relevant to think about working in virtual teams and networks. I have a passion for working with groups and teams at all levels from front line staff to Boards of Directors. I work across all sectors. As with my one to one coaching work, I work in depth to help teams and groups of staff to resolve difficult dynamics and fulfil their potential.

Examples of the kind of issues that I can help teams address include:

  • Mergers
  • Cultural change
  • Brand engagement
  • New team development
  • Having courageous conversations
  • Building effective relationships
  • Tackling difficult team dynamics
  • Leading change
  • Resolving stressful situations
  • Stakeholder and relationship management
  • Conflict management
  • Impact and resilience

My work with teams often starts with a “diagnostic phase” where I’ll meet members of the team both on a one to one basis and in small focus groups. Having identified the key issues I’ll then run a bespoke series of interventions and events designed to support team development.

I am also able to run away days, team building events, action learning groups and leadership development, coaching and change programmes.

To find out more about my team coaching packages, please Get in Touch.

To find out more about how I work as a coach, please visit the What I’m thinking section of my website.

In addition to running thriving psychoanalytic and coaching practices, I also lead Executive Coaching Programmes and use my wealth of experience to help those wishing to transition into the coaching field.

I provide coaching supervision on a one to one basis as well as to groups.

To find out more about my psychoanalytic and coaching packages, please Get in Touch.

Contact Me

Tel: 07811144977
Email: sarah@sarahmillerconsulting.com

What I'm Thinking

The Barbie Legacy 

I'm going to age myself by writing this piece but Barbie and I were born in the same year. 

And yet I never possessed a Barbie Doll (to the best of my memory.) I’m not sure why - maybe my parents were so enlightened that they worried about the message that the first stereotypical Barbie would give their fledgling daughters - blonde, superficial and physically perfect.

This wasn’t going to be possible for us with our DNA and our parents intellectual aspirations. 

In any case by the time I had the capacity to know what I wanted, I had truly bought into the patriarchy. I was brought up on The Sweeney, Starsky and Hutch and the Six Million Dollar Man and it was this  action man (not Barbie) that the pre-pubescent me asked for as a Chanukah present. 

I felt the allure of his telescopic eye and peel back arm skin (so that I could admire his bionic arm). 

Interestingly, the Bionic Woman didn’t have the same draw for me - she was like the Six Million Dollar Man’s poor spin off - a 2nd thought.  Merely a nod to the girl viewers. 

I seemed to know, even at this age, that men ran the show and I had few public female role models (Thatcher certainly was not one for me).

Of course I had my Mum. A dentist and later an orthodontist, she was someone who never stopped learning and developing, later gaining a PhD in forensic Egyptology. Moreover my Dad, who had fathered two daughters told us ‘we could do it Duffy Moon’ (an allusion to a Disney show from the same era.)

Career and ambition were instilled as vital components but so was family.  When my career started to motor and my pregnancies (like buses) came all at once (well almost), I (like all working mums) had to work out how to try and have it all. 

The bad news is that I discovered it’s impossible. When I prioritised work I felt like I was short changing my boys - and when I prioritised the boys I struggled with severe FOMO.

Yesterday, I finally got to see Barbie The Movie.

My 18 year old son had told me it was extraordinary and it was. 

I laughed out loud and wept. 

No spoilers but the scenes with Rhea Perlman (Ruth) were wonderful and America Ferrera’s (Gloria) monologue was mesmerising. 

Throughout the film I thought about the senior female executives that I’ve coached over the last 20 or so years - many of them I met on business school Women Leadership Programmes. 

They brought to the coaching the acute balancing acts they have to perform, and the impossibility of balancing the equation that Gloria all too eloquently refers to in her speech. 

It’s worth reading her speech in full,  but I want to end this with two quotes - the first is from the end of THAT monologue where Gloria says:

‘I'm just so tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie herself into knots so that people will like us. And if all of that is also true for a doll just representing women, then I don't even know.’

And here is my final thought, Madeline Albright famously said

‘there is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.’

The film reminded me of the importance of collaboration over competition - the joy of ‘planned choreography’ when ‘sisters are doing it for themselves’ through amplification and mutual support. So this is a rallying cry for the sentiment of the film. An encouragement not to get back into the box but to continue working out who we want to be, to follow our dream and support one another in the process. 


 

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