About CultureVate
CultureVate was set up in 2015 by its founder and lead consultant Sarah Milburn after having spent over 20 years working with industry leaders and teams to maximise their performance and potential.
Since then, the company has gone from strength to strength based on it’s ability and desire to understand the needs of clients and work collaboratively to deliver high quality, thought provoking and impactful learning experiences.
With a proven track record of success our virtual and face to face solutions come tailor made to fit the needs of your organisation and range from one-to-one executive coaching with senior leaders through to creative programs for teams looking to enhance their performance.
If you’re looking to develop leaders who have the right skills, mindsets and behaviours to succeed now and in the emerging future we’d love to hear from you.
Sarah has been coaching and developing leaders and teams in various sectors for over 20 years. Starting her career as an HR generalist she has partnered with numerous business leaders to achieve their organisational and individual goals.
An accomplished facilitator and coach experienced at delivering both virtually and face to face, Sarah uses her experience to design and deliver impactful development programmes which apply research-based theory, brought to life with practical real-life examples to resonate with her audience and facilitate learning.
John has been involved in the leadership and development sector for over 15 years coaching, developing and leading high performing teams.
He uses his coaching, marketing and project management expertise to bring solutions to life and make them practical in the real world. And, as an Insights Practitioner he can can often be found creating learning moments for individuals and teams as they realise the power that self-awareness and awareness of others can bring.
"I have been working with Sarah for over 20 years and her passion for developing and coaching employees at all levels is second to none. Sarah has coached a number of our senior employees in Philips UK and runs our early career development and senior leadership programmes.
The feedback from our programmes is exceptional with employees often describing it as transformational with regards to the impact on their personal life, career and leadership journey. Sarah’s coaching abilities can be directly related to the improvements in key senior leadership skills leading to further promotions and high engagement of employees in the organisation."
"Sarah is fantastic high level facilitator and coach.
She has worked with us on our transformational leadership programme “Leading Leaders,” and supported the organisation with team development and coaching at a senior level and we have reaped the benefits of both her style and approach, the knowledge and experience she brings and the impact of her coaching with many of our senior leaders requesting more coaching time with Sarah.
She is supportive, flexible in her approach and an external partner who always supports us to maximise impact through our interventions.”
"I’ve collaborated with Sarah in both her corporate and independent consultant roles and experienced first-had her talent for interrogating and translating needs into impactful interventions which get to the heart of the issue at an individual, team and organisational level.
Sarah is highly credible as a leadership and learning professional, she is able to build rapport effortlessly and her style is challenging and supportive in equal measure, enabling deep personal reflection and resolution in those she works with throughout the organisation. "
"Sarah is simply the best leadership coach I have worked with – a master facilitator, challenger and coach – she expertly supports leaders to bring out the best in themselves, and those around them! There are many colleagues within my organization, including myself, who have been successfully promoted or moved to a new role, due to the transformational learning and development Sarah brings."
" John is incredibly knowledgeable in his field of expertise, and is forward thinking & collaborative in his approach, effectively tailoring sessions to the audience. He is a highly talented facilitator - engaging, insightful and has an incredible knack of being able to cut to the heart of underlying issues.
John injects heaps of energy and humour into the sessions, so everyone has fun along the way. I can’t recommend him highly enough!"