Sarah Howard

Work

I am passionate about understanding what creates collaborative and productive teams and the intersection of individuals and their connection to purpose. I have a background in psychology and am a trained leadership development coach where I continue to learn about human development and essentially how to create lasting behavior change.

I have experience across many sales roles where I learned how important it is to add value to the customer in every interaction and how the internal culture of an organization shapes the external brand. Most recently I supported workplace culture and leadership development consulting companies where I observed the typical cultural problems companies face. We worked to train the skills necessary to create innovative, resilient cultures built to withstand the future of work.

Through my experience, I have developed a holistic point of view around how to properly motivate, engage, and retain talent which starts with a sense of trust and belonging. I bring this perspective to Turning Basin Labs, a cooperative staffing agency that is worker owned and ran with a focus on improving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. As the community catalyst, my goal is to build a community and culture that is supportive and prosperous through hosting monthly events and engaging an online community. Each event will focus on how to improve DEI throughout the recruitment journey and connect workers and employers helping to build diverse teams and supporting diverse talent in their roles. I hope you will join us to create a fair chance for all!

I am available for consulting projects around engagement and/or enablement on teams as well as part-time training and coaching roles. Check out my services here!

Testimonials

I experience Sarah as highly-motivated, focused, accountable, and someone who is ready, willing, and capable of learning more when she needs to. When Sarah first joined our team, I was impressed with how quickly she integrated into our work culture. Her fresh ideas and positive attitude ignited the team's work ethic.

Sarah is a curious, passionate and loyal spirit. Always eager to learn and expand her horizons, she has a tremendous amount of energy and dedication. She has a broad understanding of multiple domains and is able to make connections between them, often in novel and innovative ways. She is eager to grasp new concepts, and through deepening her understanding, make them her own. Courageous and willing to be vulnerable, she shows up with authenticity and genuine interest in others. In ownership of her creations, she is an asset to any team.

Sarah is an extremely talented salesperson. She hustles as though closing deals is going out of style and does so by building strong relationships with clients and asking the right questions. She learns quickly and develops passion for whatever she is selling but has a particularly special place in her heart for solar, technology, and climate solutions. If you're looking for a top performer for your team, you've found her.

Sarah and I worked together for a year in the residential solar industry. Sarah was an excellent communicator, both internally and with our clients. She was always someone that was willing to step in and go above and beyond her duties on the consultant team to make sure all of her clients were being taken care of. Sarah did a great job with downstream communication with our other departments and simplified complex financing and construction circumstances to help our homeowners understand and keep them engaged throughout the process.

Sarah is a tenacious worker, a brilliant communicator and, above all else, a genuine friend who radiates contagious positivity. While I've never worked with Sarah in a professional setting, I've seen enough teams fly or fail to know just how valuable - and far too often overlooked - company culture is. I can confidently say that adding Sarah to any organization, team or project will instantly catapult its culture and productivity to the next level. Sarah brings out the best in people, it's as simple as that.

Sarah is a very dedicated, hardworking individual who has always been both pleasant and efficient whenever I interacted with her. Any questions I ever had she was either able to answer or immediately would research and get me the best answer ASAP. She would make an excellent addition to any team.

I previously worked with Sarah Howard at Sungevity and I would highly recommend her in two ways: As an employer, you want her as an employee because she is a great ambassador for your brand. Second, you want her as your representative if she is offering you a product. I'll explain each point as follows: She always came to work with a can-do attitude. She always challenged what "couldn't" be done by relentless effort and ingenuity to make the impossible possible. She was always putting her customers first when I worked with her at Sungevity. There were many times, as an operations specialist, I had to tell her no or that what she was trying to do wouldn't work. Rather than quit, she engaged in conversation to try and come to a solution that benefited the client/customer. I highly recommend Sarah for her professionalism and passion she can bring to her job every day.

Achievements

Education

Coaching
Emotional Intelligence
Leadership
Conflict Resolution
Community Design
Training
Sales Strategy & Enablement
Salesforce CRM Admin
Microsoft Office
Fundraising – Project Nepal

Learned communication skills necessary for collaboration
Conjured the courage to be vulnerable
Confronted impostures syndrome
Learned to set boundaries
Ran culture at my 300 person Burning Man camp
Achieved #3 top solar consultant out of 65 reps

Syracuse University The College of Arts and Sciences B.A.
Cum Laude in Psychology
Study Abroad | London | Spring 2011
New Ventures West Integral Coach Certification ACTP ICF

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Personal

I am someone that cares deeply about what I am involved with and the people I am connected to. I am always laughing, having fun, learning and growing. Self-care is very important to me- I love to cook for myself and others, go to see live music (and play music) and I have many embodiment practices- skiing, cycling/MTB, kundalini yoga, pilates, backpacking, climbing, walking my dog Banjo, gardening. I love to read and I am currently geeking out on neurology and archetypes.