Sarah Babb

Sarah Babb is a Professional Associate of the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS). Sarah specialises in leadership development and organisational change in complexity and futures thinking. She designs learning and change programmes, facilitates and coaches executives and senior leadership teams.

Over twenty years Sarah has led many exciting impactful change programmes from scenarios projects, to national skills programmes, to culture change, to the human side of digital transformation. Her passion is to help leaders step up and forge positive futures for our continent. Sarah works each day across organisations and leadership from multiple sectors and across countries.

Sarah has published case studies on organisation development and change, a white paper on leader identity development, and chapters, articles and webinars on leadership, on learning and development, and on coaching.

Qualifications

• BA (Industrial Psychology & Industrial Sociology) University of Witwatersrand
• PDM (HR, with distinction) University of Witwatersrand
• MBA (cum laude) GIBS University of Pretoria
• PhD (Leadership Identity Development, submit 2021) GIBS University of Pretoria

Coaching Qualifications and Accreditations

• Certified Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
• Consciousness Coaching Master
• Certificate programmes in complexity (Cynefin and Waysfinder)
• Theory U change processes
• Transformative Scenarios
• Lego-Serious play
• Gestalt
• Tavistock leading in systems
• TMSDI Team effectiveness
• Discovery Insights
• Change management
• Design thinking
• Executive coaching

Core Discipline

• Leadership

Work Experience

• Executive manager (Laminar Leadership )
• Professional Associate (Gordon Institute of Business Science )