Zara’s passion is to help individuals and organisations develop the insight and clarity they need to support sustainable growth, value and happiness.
Clients describe Zara as highly empathetic, professional and pragmatic. Her commercial experience and results-oriented mindset, combined with her passion for equity, diversity, and inclusion, provide leaders and businesses with a deeper understanding of their influence and impact.
Zara works with senior leaders and has a passion for supporting emerging, underrepresented and diverse talent. She seeks to provide leaders with a deeper understanding of their influence and impact in fostering the conditions and culture needed for all talent to thrive. Zara helps identify hidden spots and develop strategies for how to avoid potential pitfalls, drive performance and create awareness and connection that ultimately incentivise action. One of her defining approaches is to work with leaders as key levers of change with a view to creating the systemic conditions for success.
Zara comes from a 20-year background in Financial Services where she has operated and led in global commercial roles as well as specialised in Strategic Talent, Diversity & Inclusion, and Organisational Effectiveness. She has since coached and consulted across both the public and private sectors, supporting organisations in developing more inclusive and equitable cultures through discovery, strategy, education, and coaching. Her areas of expertise include Inclusive Leadership, Inclusive Cultures, Change Agility, Performance Enablement, Mentoring, Sponsorship, Mental Health & Wellbeing and neurodiversity.
Zara is passionate about breaking down barriers to access and creating conditions where everyone has the opportunity to be at their best and create extraordinary value for both business and society.