SARAH CORNALLY

Asia-Pacific

Sarah Cornally has over 35 years consulting experience, working at executive and board levels in the areas of leadership strategy and development; organisational change and issue resolution; effective system and group dynamics; and executive coaching and mentoring. She leads whole system leadership transformation projects.

Experience

Graduating from the University of Sydney’s Cumberland College of Health Sciences as an Occupational Therapist, Sarah developed a refined expertise in treating severely injured workers and returning them to gainful employment. She honed her strategic leadership and influence skills through the employment relations associated with this work. She worked extensively with people from different cultures and countries, bridging various cross-cultural issues. Sarah was sought out by C-suite executives to provide consulting services in leadership and issue resolution because of her reputation in resolving complex and challenging issues.

Since then she has advised leaders in both global and top 100 Australian companies and many government organisations, including AMP, CBA, the Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet, Coca Cola Amatil, KPMG, Macquarie Bank, Microsoft, Natixis, NAB, QBE, Suncorp, TOMRA Foods, UTS and VF Corporation.

Her personal leadership experience has included the position of the National President of the National Speakers Association of Australia (which has over 700 members) & positions on various not-for-profit boards including the Chairman of depressioNet.

Sarah’s work focuses on enabling leaders to collectively create successful businesses and organisations, in which people thrive whilst achieving the organization’s purpose. She has a special interest in developing a greater capacity in leaders to respond insightfully and effectively to uncertainty and complexity by exploring adaptive solutions.

Sarah served as an Executive Associate for Leadership Circle until 2025.During this time she introduced the Collective Leadership Assessment and LCP360 to clients in the Australian market in 2006. From 2008-2022 she led Certifications in the Asia-Pacific region for the transformational leadership technology from Leadership Circle and developed the Faculty to deliver the Certification in the region.

For over 10 years she was an accredited facilitator on the AICD faculty including the Board Ready program and the advanced diploma, ‘Mastering the Boardroom’.

Qualifications

Sarah’s academic qualifications include studies in behavioural, biological and engineering sciences as well as in organisational behaviour and industrial relations. She earned a Masters degree in Safety Science from the University of New South Wales. Sarah graduated with Harvard University’s The Art & Practice of Leadership Development. She has completed Master level training internationally in organisational systems dynamics. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.