Sarah Young

Written By Marti Martin

Founder & CEO

Sarah Young is the founder and CEO of Zing Collaborative and the author of Expansive Impact: An Invitation to Lead in Everyday Moments. She is passionate about empowering leaders to show up fully, effectively, and with high levels of self-awareness in all dimensions of work and life. Sarah specializes in supporting senior leaders navigating high-growth environments or leading through change and transition. She believes that effective leadership begins with self-awareness and is grateful to support leaders in deepening their self-awareness, operating in a way that releases ego and assumptions, and allows them to stay grounded and steady, even in the most challenging situations.

Sarah founded Zing Collaborative in 2013 after spending nearly a decade in the corporate world leading people, projects, and teams. She realized that, while essential to the overall success of an organization, managers and leaders are often lacking the tools, support, and coaching that they need to feel fully successful, confident, and equipped in their roles. 

Sarah’s approach to coaching is loving, fierce, and action oriented. It combines traditional coaching techniques with thought partnership, strategic advisory (where desired), and tools and best practices based in leadership development, personal development, mindfulness, and well-being. She is passionate about creating welcoming spaces, exploring small but impactful ways to lead in everyday moments, and uncovering what connects us as opposed to what divides us. 

Sarah Young - Founder - Zing Collaborative

Specialties and Interest Areas

  • CEO Coaching 

  • Founder/Co-Founder Coaching 

  • Executive Coaching for C-Suite Teams 

  • Systems Coaching for teams and partnerships

  • Creating alignment within executive and leadership teams (and identifying areas of misalignment or potential misalignment) 

  • Leadership development for managers and leaders across all levels of the organization 

  • Leading across all dimensions of work and life 

  • Values-based leadership 

  • Creating win/win/win solutions 

  • Conscious leadership as a catalyst to more conscious business and a more conscious world 

  • Leading in relationship to reality —clearing out assumptions, stories, and gremlins that get in the way of our most effective leadership 

  • Setting up relationships, meetings, and conversations for success 

  • Staying grounded and steady even in high-stress situations

  • Parenthood and motherhood as a joyful leadership journey, and releasing common narratives about parenthood and motherhood

Trainings and Certifications

  • Member of 1% for the Planet since 2018

  • PCC (International Coach Federation)

  • CPCC (Co-Active Training Institute)

  • A certified, practicing coach and leadership development partner since 2013

  • Trained in Systems Theory and Relationship Coaching (CRR Global)

  • A Certified ScrumMaster (Scrum Alliance)

  • Participated in CTI’s Year-Long Leadership Experience

  • Named one of Madison WI’s “favorite executive and life coaches” multiple years in a row by BRAVA Magazine

  • Two-Time Ironman Finisher

  • 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification (Alignment Yoga)

Daily Delights

  • Sunshine 

  • Coffee 

  • Morning walks 

  • Family meals 

  • Warm weather 

  • Nature and lush green landscapes 

  • Finding and creating beauty in small everyday moments 

  • Hosting and gathering with friends and loved ones 

  • Listening to a podcast while working around the house 

  • Daily voice memos and text exchanges with girlfriends 

  • Giggles and jingles with my favorite small human

  • Daily gratitude for the place I call home

Peak Experiences

  • The home birth of my daughter

  • Soaking in turquoise waters and lavender skies in Greece 

  • Beautiful sunny days spent with family and friends

 
Marti Martin https://www.bridgeandbloom.com/
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