Sarah Knight
Peak Performance and Resilience Coach
Sarah Knight is an award-winning human skills trainer, leadership coach and workplace culture consultant who works with experienced women in business and female founders to lead from the inside out. She’s the creator of The Inner Edge™ Principle and founder of FoundHer Fire — an exclusive coaching-powered collective for women ready to reclaim their energy, confidence and purpose.
Biography
As well as a resilience and performance coach, Sarah Knight is a trainer, facilitator and workplace culture consultant with over two decades of experience. Her career is been dedicated to enabling individuals and organisations to develop successful mind-sets and embed positive behaviours for change.
Sarah began her professional journey in PR and marketing, founding her own consultancy while navigating the challenges of pregnancy and new motherhood. It was a crash course in balancing work and life! These personal and professional experiences shaped her approach, combining lived-in wisdom with evidence-based strategies to cultivate resilience, growth, and a pragmatic, "crack on" attitude.
Sarah’s signature strength lies in making complex performance psychology relatable and easy to understand. Her philosophy is that investing in mind-set behaviours and habits is the cornerstone of achieving professional success and life satisfaction.
Sarah hosts It’s Got Pockets, a podcast for women in business who want straight-talking conversations, not filtered soundbites. She talks leadership, energy, mindset, and all the stuff no one tells you when you’re “successful” but secretly exhausted.
Sarah has also co-founded The Plot Twist awards because myself and my co-founder were frankly bored and very irritated of seeing the same old success stories. The Plot Twist Awards are the real celebrations; the stories where the best stories start in the middle, where the women who are navigating the life load, the emotional load, the overwhelm and the second guessing are nailing it whilst holding the sky up too.
Sarah trains, coaches facilitates and speaks — always with the same mission:
To help people lead themselves better, so they can lead everything else with more impact, more energy, and a hell of a lot more joy. With over 20 years’ experience, Sarah brings bold insights, straight-talking strategies and a powerful mix of science and storytelling to every room she walks into
Featured in Forbes and widely sought after on the conference circuit, Sarah continues to champion human-centred workplace cultures. Her commitment to bridging the skills gap and fostering resilience ensures her impact extends far beyond the room.
Speaking
Moderating
Broadcast
Topics
Sarah Knight covers a dynamic mix of performance psychology, workplace culture, and resilience, helping individuals and organisations develop the mindsets and behaviours needed to thrive. She equips audiences with practical strategies to build mental strength, overcome burnout, and embed habits that drive lasting success. A champion of human-centred workplaces, she addresses how to spot and dismantle toxic cultures, bridge skills gaps, and foster inclusivity at every level. Known for making complex ideas relatable, Sarah blends evidence-based insights with lived experience to inspire action and create meaningful, sustainable change.
What do you get when you book Sarah to speak?
Sarah is most commonly asked to keynote but she is happy to chair panels or interview other speakers on stage, while she is at the event. Sarah is an experienced speaker with an audience of her own who is happy to work with you to help you promote your event.
This can include:
Pre-event video
Co-operation in pre-event PR and media interviews
Contributed articles for event blogs or programmes
Promotion on social media
Feedback
“If you're looking for a lively and engaging speaker to work with you and your team, then look no further than Sarah. Sarah ran a super online event for the PRCA with PR leaders across the north of England, exploring how we manage the stress levels of the people in our care as well as importantly, our own stress levels. She is a natural and eloquent communicator, who puts the audience at ease and manages to encourage them to participate in the sessions (which is an especially hard task when online!). Sarah has extensive knowledge of nurturing staff, developing skills, exploring their wellbeing, and evolving cultures with organisations - which I'd say are vitally important areas for any business to focus on in 2021.”
Lisa Wood - NW Manager PRCA
