
Welcome! Our purpose is to support leaders and companies to create climates and cultures that deliver sustainable results. We’re specialists in coaching and team facilitation with deep business experience at senior level.
leadership starts with ONE leader
transformation starts with ONE choice
growth starts with ONE insight
WHAT WE OFFER
the one to one space
the one to one space
the team space
the team space
the strategy space
the strategy space
... collaboration starts with ONE connection ...
OUR APPROACH

within, around, between
Whether working 1:1 or with a group, we work with three different lenses. We look at what’s within, your motivations, values, the experiences that have shaped you, your style and personality. We look at what’s around you, your business priorities and challenges, the history, culture and dynamics in your working environment and the opportunities and risks. Finally we consider what’s going on in the relationships between you and others, what needs to change and how to address relationship and trust issues.

accessing your rich personal resources
Our clients all have strong intellectual and analytical ability. Our total intelligence approach allows you to access a different type of intelligence that comes from your body. Working with us, you learn not only how your mindset affects how you act, but also how your emotions, gut feel and physiology influence how effective you are as leader. Our approach enables you to manage your personal energy so that you use brain and body to full capacity.

creativity with results
Working with us is multi-dimensional. We use creative techniques to access deeper intuitive knowledge. We like to get you moving so that you can think creatively and differently. We use a variety of tools, some more conventional, others more unexpected. In all cases we maintain a strong focus on the agreed objectives and outcomes so that the results are tangible and actionable.
... a ripple starts with ONE pebble ...
OUR MANIFESTO
... a journey starts with ONE step ...
THE TEAM
it starts with one is owned and run by Sarah Henbrey who began her independent career in 2012 with the formation of Sarah Henbrey Coaching & Consulting. Since then, she’s formed transformational collaborations with a number of like-minded partner coaches and facilitators. This led her to the formation of it starts with one in 2017 with the intention to do client work both solo and in partnership with other high-quality independent coaches and facilitators. Anne (profiled with Sarah below) is one of our key collaborators. All collaborators we work with are not only brilliant at what they do, they’ve also had successful corporate careers and (best of all) are kind, creative and generous people.
Sarah Henbrey

Sarah is an insightful and intuitive coach and facilitator, able to get to the heart of the matter quickly. Her supportive and positively challenging approach enables her clients to identify the right changes to make and then to take practical action towards transformation. In her work she draws on the fields of neuroscience, behavioural economics, somatics and psychology. She uses a range of techniques, often with a creative and experiential flavour. Sarah’s multinational corporate career included Director-level roles at Sony and Three mobile in the fields of HR, Talent Management, Leadership Development and Culture Change. She holds a Diploma in Advanced Executive Coaching from the AoEC, a Practitioner Certificate in Systemic Coaching & Facilitation and an MA in European Management from Cranfield.
Anne Wolff

As an accountant and banker in her previous career, including at Price Waterhouse Coopers and Bank of America, Anne is well-versed in the economic pressures leaders face today. She is acutely aware of the need for high quality decision-making and influence and supports her clients to deliver better business outcomes by considering both the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of doing business. Having lived and worked in 3 continents, Anne has experienced first-hand the challenges of cross-cultural team collaboration and now specialises in supporting leaders and teams to work in a multi-cultural context. She has a crisp, clear and light-touch style, quickly building strong relationships and acting as a catalyst for change. Anne holds an MSc in Coaching & Behavioural Change from Henley Business School, a degree in Economics from Cambridge and a Fundamentals Certificate in Systemic Coaching & Facilitation.
... change starts with ONE action ...
OUR CLIENTS
Here’s a selection of our amazing clients past and present…
Abel & Cole The Premier League Royal Greenland Sharp British Property Federation Sony HSBC Virgin Media L’Occitane en Provence Three Vodafone Oxford University Innovation V-Inspired Royal Statistical Society Moog Inc
and a few of the lovely things they say about us…
... innovation starts with ONE idea ...
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