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Sarah Scala is a senior talent management leader and executive coach with 20+ years of experience providing organization development, change management, and leadership development solutions for diverse global and local industries. She is a collaborative consultant, coach, and educator supporting the performance transformation of executives, leaders, and teams. Sarah is a methodical, results-driven leader recognized for helping clients reach their highest potential, increase revenue, reduce turnover, increase inclusion, elevate business profitability, build competencies, and improve performance.

Sarah is a sought-after speaker and facilitator supporting unique needs and issues within the LGBTQ+ community. Expert in maximizing performance through optimism, resilience, and grit, and building emotional intelligence for individuals and organizations. She speaks virtually and at in-person events, and has spoken globally, nationally, and at smaller venues.

Current position (4)

President and CEO

Sarah A. Scala Consulting

Senior Organization Development Consultant

Hypertherm

Manager: Kohler ExperientialLearning Center

Kohler Company

Senior Consultant: Learning and Development

Kohler Credit Union

Degrees (2)

Organization Development

Alverno College

2008 to 2010

Business

Green Mountain College

1998 to 2002

Presentations

Presentations (9)

POSITIVE ROI: EFFECTIVE MENTORING FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

This workshop explores mentoring as a cost-effective method to strengthen skills and develop future leaders. You'll learn examples of mentoring successes with a strong ROI.

Learn to:

- Use components necessary to support and design both formal and informal mentor programs that are successful.

- Use mentoring to provide a strong return on investment for businesses and organizations.

- Find a mentor that is appropriate for their development.

WHAT’S GOING ON UP THERE? UNDERSTANDING COACHING AND THE BRAIN TO BUILD BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

This workshop dives into neuroscience and what happens in the brain with different approaches to coaching. Workshop participants will gain tools and tips to bring change to individuals and teams.

Learn to:

- Build skills and methods that support a balance of both compassion and compliance approaches to drive successful, sustained change in behavior with data from fMRI studies.

- Use the different levels of listening and the effectiveness of each level.

- Use the Intentional Change Theory (ICT) as a psychological model for sustained behavior change.

BUILDING ENGAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE WITH OPTIMISM, RESILIENCE, AND GRIT

This interactive workshop focuses on leadership and people development, exploring ways to strengthen and teach others optimism, grit, and resilience to overcome challenges and change.

Learn to:

- Strengthen resilience and optimism for managing and overcoming challenges in the workplace.

- Use ways to build grit in self and the teams you lead.

- Strengthen self-awareness.

BUILDING PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY AT WORK

Participants get tips, guidance, and experiential practice on how to create psychological safety, to support organizational innovation, creativity, and an environment where employees are comfortable taking risks and trying new things.

Learn to:

• Feel safe speaking up about legitimate concerns in the workplace

• Effectively resolve most disagreements

• Respectfully intervene when witnessing inappropriate behavior

• Feel included and valued in the workplace

• Create a psychologically safe workplace culture

LQBTQ+ Psychological Safety at Work

A psychologically safe work environment promotes openness and the sharing of new ideas to solve problems and overcome challenges, especially for LGBTQ+ employees. This workshop offers tips, guidance, and experiential practice to support organizational innovation and creativity. When it does not feel safe at work, employees are less comfortable with taking risks and trying new things due to a fear of failure. New learning and success come from mistakes and risk-taking. Psychological safety is not a perk but is essential to high-performance today with great levels of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). Psychological safety is required for organizations to evolve and requires high cultural humility.

Emotional Intelligence for your Work Life (LGBTQ+ , DEI, or GENERAL)

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is defined as “a set of emotional and social skills that influence the way we perceive and express ourselves, develop and maintain social relationships, cope with challenges, and use emotional information in an effective and meaningful way.” Participants will learn to recognize and understand emotions in others and themselves, and will use this awareness to manage behavior and build positive relationships.

Sustaining LGBTQ+ Performance with Optimism, Resilience, and Grit

This interactive workshop focuses on keeping one’s self strong through optimism, resilience, and grit. Through group and partner discussions, we will explore ways to strengthen or teach others optimism, resilience, and grit. You will learn how to strengthen and develop Optimism. We will also explore ways to build Resilience as a competency to overcome change and challenges. The workshop will end with ways to strengthen GRIT as a competency that differentiates exceptional performers from good performers, which impacts business results.

The Business Cost of Getting Diversity and Inclusion Wrong

Recent research by Accenture found that 98% of leaders think employees feel their company is inclusive. In other words, leaders think employees can bring their whole, authentic selves to work. But only 80% of employees actually report feeling included in their workplaces. This gap of about 20 percentage points is called the “perception gap. ”Closing the “perception gap,” or making more employees feel included, could save employers millions and boost US company profits by a whopping $1.05 trillion. This interactive workshop will share financial and cultural costs to businesses when they lack an inclusive environment for diverse employees, in general, as well as LGBTQ+ specifically.

Developing Your Organization to Support LGBTQ+ Inclusion Using the World Café Model (in person only)

World Café is a facilitation process that rapidly gathers the collective experience and knowledge of participants. The workshop will open with a creative exercise. Participants will then work in small discussion groups concentrating on topics such as: inclusion, managing change, building executive effectiveness, executing for results, building self awareness, and thinking and acting globally. The workshop will close with small groups sharing their ideas with the large group. Topics can be selected based on your choice.

Past talks (4)

Sustaining LGBTQ+ Success with Optimism, Resilience, and Grit

Out & Equal Global Workforce Summit

Virtual

October 6, 2021

Positive ROI: Effective Mentor Program Design for Workforce Development

Organization Development Network - 2021 Global Conference

Virtual

June 16, 2021

Mentoring: Formal, Informal, and Impactful

Maine HR Convention

Rockport, ME