Sarah Knight
Peak Performance and Resilience Coach
Award-winning resilience coach and behaviour specialist Sarah Knight revolutionises how leaders and teams achieve excellence. Honest, funny, and packed with lived experience, Sarah’s keynotes combine science-backed strategies and engaging storytelling to rewire mind-sets, eliminate burnout and create lasting change. She’s not just a speaker—she’s a mentality maverick who’ll leave your audience inspired, empowered and ready to take action.
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.
A fierce advocate for inclusivity in leadership, Sarah has pioneered numerous Women in Leadership programmes, empowering women to lead confidently and challenge biases in the workplace. She is also the founder of the 'Ministry of Midlife', a platform designed to support women navigating midlife transitions with humour, candour, and practical frameworks.
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.
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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. Her work in Women in Leadership and her ‘Ministry of Midlife’ platform empower women to navigate leadership roles and life transitions with confidence, humour, and clarity. 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
