Sayre Darling is an experienced and credentialed coach and consultant on issues of change, transition and growth. She helps organizations remove internal barriers, find answers from the inside – not force fix from the outside – and helps people who are facing change overcome fear, inertia and break through the “internal chatter” that keeps you safe (and stuck).
Experience
She is a proven advisor to senior executives on highly complex and sensitive issues. Her expertise includes crisis issues and rapid change, industry reform, cultural changes, effective use of communications during times of change, increasing management credibility, building stakeholder relationships, business development – in both for-profit and non-profit sectors and hands-on crisis communications and media relations.
ExpertiseSayre’s expertise includes a thorough understanding of business issues in non-profit and for-profit organizations, specifically leadership communications, the development and implementation of strategic communications, cultural change and organizational development issues, community relations, marketing communications and public relations, employee communications and providing communications counsel to senior executives on highly complex and sensitive issues.
Credentials
• Sayre is a certified life coach by The Hudson Institute in Santa Barbara, Calif.,
• (www.hudsoninstitute.com);
• She currently holds an ACC accreditation from the International Coaching
• Federation;
• She received her M.B.C. (Masters in Business Communication), from the
• University of St. Thomas, in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota; and,
• She received her Bachelors of Arts in Journalism from the University of
• Nebraska-Lincoln.
Giving Back
Sayre has been a life-long volunteer. She is currently a member of the International Coaching Federation and the Minnesota Coaches Association and the Greater Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce.
She has been a long-time member of the International Association of Business Communicators, holding several leadership positions including the Treasurer, President-Elect, President of the Minnesota; and the Volunteer Chair and cofounder of IABC LA Angels project for the Los Angeles Chapter, and member of the Planning Task Force for the IABC 2004 International Conference.
She has also held leadership positions with the Minnesota Independent School Forum, the Minnesota Health Strategy and Communications Network, the Minnesota Council of Health Care Marketing and Public Relations.
She has been a frequent speaker and presenter at local and regional forums on topics such as change and renewal, leveraging change, communicating with influence, jump-starting your creativity, career burnout, public affairs crises, and employee communications.
Sayre finds balance in her life by reading, entertaining, playing in her garden, swimming and horse back riding. And she also pursues creative endeavors in the arts.
