Sascha Proudlove
Executive Coach
Sascha combines more than 16 years of experience in financial services with executive coaching, she brings a strong understanding of the commercial and personal demands of leadership in high-performance environments and helps leaders create meaningful change and enhance self-awareness to reach their full potential in today’s complex global environment.
Country: United States
Sector experience: Financial services
Background & Experience
Before becoming a coach, Sascha built her career in financial services, working closely with senior executives and leadership teams in global organisations. Having held senior roles at Blackstone and Marsh, she has first-hand experience of the pace, complexity and expectations that shape careers in financial and professional services. Her commercial background enables her to quickly understand organisational context, stakeholder dynamics and the pressures that come with leading in demanding environments. This experience is particularly valuable for clients managing significant career transitions while maintaining performance and credibility.
Who Sascha Works With
Sascha works with senior leaders, high-potential professionals and individuals navigating significant career and life transitions. She is particularly effective with leaders stepping into broader roles, returning from parental leave or managing periods of change that require them to rethink how they lead, prioritise and define success. Alongside her wider executive coaching practice, she has a particular interest in supporting women as they navigate leadership and career progression.
Coaching Style
Clients describe Sascha as warm, thoughtful and intellectually rigorous. She creates a reflective space where leaders can challenge assumptions, explore different perspectives and make decisions with greater confidence and clarity. Her coaching is grounded in practical organisational experience and balances honest challenge with empathy, helping clients strengthen their judgement while remaining authentic to their own leadership style.
Clients
Sascha has worked with senior leaders across the financial, legal and professional services, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, hospitality, the military and the not-for-profit sector. Representative clients include AllianceBernstein, BlackRock, FINRA, JP Morgan, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Schroders, Deutsche Bank, A&O Shearman, Bird & Bird, Paul Hastings, Willis Towers Watson, Winston & Strawn, Novartis, Reckitt, Wyndham Hotel Group, the U.S. Air Force and the League of Women Voters.
Qualifications & Credentials
Sascha holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Dartmouth College. She is a graduate of the Meyler Campbell Business Coach Programme and is certified in a range of psychometric assessments, including Hogan Inventories™, DISC® and MBTI. She also regularly uses interview-based 360 feedback within her coaching engagements.
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