Sarah Suatoni, MA, LPC

Managing Partner

Sarah Suatoni is a certified Executive Coach, Leadership Facilitator and Licensed Professional Counselor with an extensive background in helping people grow and change by accessing their own personal resources. Sarah combines her expertise in systems thinking, dialogue and communication, mindfulness, and embodied awareness to contribute to the field of leadership development as a coach, group facilitator, and speaker. She works with the creative lens of an artist, the discipline and rigor of a dancer, the compassion and curiosity of a therapist, and the evidence based training of an executive coach. Sarah digs deep and holds clients accountable to their goals and purpose with unwavering kindness and humor. Her special power is bringing the cutting edge work of embodied awareness  into action, bringing embodied calm into chaos and confusion that arises when people confront big challenges. Twenty years of counseling executives and professionals taught Sarah that talent, intelligence, and technical expertise are not enough. She partners with leaders to develop emotional and social intelligence, mindful presence, and interpersonal skills along with a clear sense of purpose and values.

 
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Areas of Expertise

  • Mindful Leadership

  • Neuroscience / Psychologically Based Coaching

  • Embodied Coaching

  • Team Coaching, Culture Building

  • Partnership Dynamics

  • Conscious Communication and Emotional Mastery

  • Stress Management, Wellness, Self-Care

  • Communication, Collaboration, Culture Building

  • Executive Presence

  • Life/Work Balance

  • Couples Coaching

  • Working Mother’s and Woman at Work

Client List, Industries & Companies

  • Pfizer

  • Goldman Sachs

  • Google

  • Microsoft

  • Morgan Stanley

  • Womankind

  • Credit Suisse

  • Elizabet Arden

  • International Finance Corporation (World Bank)

  • Anaheim Union High School District

  • Bound Brook New Jersey School District

  • Yale New Haven Health

Career Highlights

  • Executive Coach and Leadership Development - Private practice and The MindKind Institute: 2016 to Present

  • Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, Summer Principals Academy, Teachers College: 2020 to present

  • Private Practice, Licensed Professional Counselor: 1999 to Present

  • Certified Hellerwork Practitioner (Bodywork and Mind/Body Education): 1991-Present

  • Trainer for Hellerwork International Trainings: 2000-2005

  • Co-Director of Gather Central LLC: Supporting Professional Woman through Dialogue: 2003-2007

  • Co-Director of the Tween Tribe LLC: providing social and emotional education to girls: 2004-2009

  • Co-Director of the White Street Center for Movement and Bodywork: 1990-2002

  • Professional Dancer and Choreographer: 1988-1998

Education Highlights

  • Executive Coach Certification Program: Columbia University, 2019

  • Neuroscience and Psychology, 2014

  • Mindfulness and Counseling, 2015

  • Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Training: Yale University, 2016

  • MA Counseling Psychology: Pacifica Graduate Institute, 1999

  • Certified Hellerwork Mind/Body Therapy, 1991

  • BFA The Juilliard School (Dance), 1988

  • Ongoing Studies in Iyengar Yoga: NY and India, 1995 to present

  • Jungian Psychology, Non Violent Communication, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, the Neuroscience of Stress, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, Family Systems

Recent Conferences and Workshops

  • United Way of New York City: Mindful Leadership and Emotional Intelligence During COVID, 2020

  • Womankind, NY NY: Mindful Leadership during times of Transition, 2020

  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP: Mindful Leadership for NonProfit Leaders, 2020

  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP: Mindful Partnership and Healthy Relationships in times of Crisis, 2020

  • Leadership Team Coaching BoundBrook NJ School, Ongoing

  • Leadership Team Coaching on Conscious Business and Communication, AUHSD Ongoing

  • Team Coaching for Conscious Parenting: AUHSD, Oct-Dec 2019

  • Mindful Leadership Workshop Series: Womankind, May-Dec 2019

  • Mindful leadership Skills Workshop: Elizabeth Arden Annual Leadership Conference, Mar 2019

  • Leadership Retreat: AUHSD (Anaheim Union High School District), June 2019

  • Mindful Leadership Mission: Bound Brook NJ School, Sept 2019 (Interactive Online Leadership Program)

  • Mindful Leadership Retreat: IFC (International Finance Corporation) VPU, Washington DC, Sep 2019

  • Mindful Leadership Presentation: IFC VPU GLobal Leadership Conference, Nov, 2019

  • Mindful Leadership and Communication Workshop: IFC Budget Dept, Nov 2019