Sarah Pickthall

Sarah has always been interested in the spaces that unite and divide us all and one of her life highlights it to be co-chair of the Board for Access All Areas alongside Charlene Salter

Her extensive facilitation, training, production and coaching portfolio is dedicated to ensuring a broad range of voices and opinions are represented and included in the creative, cultural, media and health sectors in the UK and beyond. A dancer and children’s television writer and puppeteer for 10 years with the Media Merchants for CITV, Sarah joined Arts Council England in 2004 and became the first Chair of its Disabled Workers Group.

She has enjoyed an extensive career as a digital dance producer working locally and internationally but now focuses on bespoke coaching and leadership projects in arts, culture, heritage, broadcasting and health

Sarah founded Sync Leadership in 2008, alongside Jo Verrent of Unlimited, working with its mix of leadership theory and coaching practices, Sync has run its programmes in the UK, Australia, Canada, South Korea, Singapore, Jordan and Palestine and in Spring 2025, in Malaysia.

In 2023, she delivered Amplify, a leadership and coaching programme for Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent leaders at ITV.

She also heads up the Inclusive Cultures Programme for Clore Leadership.