Sara L. Orem, Ph. D.

Sara L.Orem, Ph.D. has twenty years of management experience and fifteen years management consulting in and to major financial services companies in the U. S., Britain and Australia. While most of her career has been spent in banks, insurance companies and brokerage firms, she has a strong affiliation for, and has had multiple consulting relationships with major non-profits. In both her corporate and non-profit work Sara has consulted to a full-spectrum of organizational roles from operations managers to boards of directors. This work has spanned strategic planning, diversity management, team collaboration, and small group learning. Her corporate roles focused on leadership development.

Her consulting work has focused most recently on team and individual coaching for deep engagement and committed performance. She is qualified to interpret, has presented workshops, and published papers about the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. She is also co-author of the daily meditation book, Living Simply (1994, Health Communications). Sara completed her doctoral work in the inter-disciplinary program in Human and Organization Systems at Fielding Graduate University.

In addition to coaching, Sara teaches masters and doctoral business courses as adjunct faculty for Capella University in Minneapolis. She has presented her research at the national conferences of the American Society of Training and Development (2007), International Coach Federation (2004, 2005, 2006), the Transformational Learning Conference (2003), and the Organization Development Network (2003). She presented with Kathryn Cramer at the Executive Coaching Council of the Conference Board in January 2008.

Her current focus is on the development and use of positive methods including Appreciative Inquiry and Asset-Based Thinking in coaching and group processes. She, is lead author of Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change, published in early 2007 by Jossey-Bass. Appreciative Coaching describes in detail the method Sara has developed for her coaching practice.