I'm Sarah Schwab. I design leadership development that changes behaviour, and I build the learning technology that scales it, for organisations and the world's business schools. Every few weeks I share what I'm learning from the room.
Calm, practical, experiential. I translate behavioural science and real leadership experience into something you can use the next day. These are the themes in my writing, my talks and my coaching.
My podcast, featuring young people on their move from education into the world of work.
A field lab where Gen X and Gen Z colleagues challenge workplace norms and test better ways of working.
An AI coach that helps early-career professionals build confidence, self-management and communication.
I develop leaders, coach executives, and build learning that changes how people actually behave. Different worlds, one thread runs through all of them: people, and how they grow.
I have sat in the operator's chair myself. A general manager's role, multi-million-dollar P&Ls, organisations of several hundred people. So when I talk about pressure, I am not describing it from the outside.
I work in the messy part, where volatility, ego, history and ambition all collide, and where most leaders are caught in a paradox: deliver today, and rebuild for tomorrow. My work helps them hold both at once.
My approach is experiential. Leaders practise in realistic, high-stakes settings, get honest feedback, and rehearse new behaviours until they hold up in the room that matters.
I have worked across Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and the US, from C-suite dialogues in Muscat to front-line training in Frankfurt. I am based in Switzerland and work in person and online worldwide.
Designing and delivering leadership and executive-development programmes, from front-line managers to the C-suite, blending experiential learning, assessment and coaching.
Through The Experience Accelerator, digital and AI coaching tools, including Coach Kate, that scale development and power executive and online MBA programmes.
Keynotes, hosting as MC, high-performance team coaching and hands-on workshops, from a packed hall to a boardroom.
Through The Experience Accelerator, I also power executive and online MBA programmes at Eller College of Management (University of Arizona), the University of Oklahoma, and the Kuwait Institute of Banking Studies.
Short, practical notes on leadership, learning technology and the future of work, from the rooms I'm actually in.
I'm gathering real views on how multigenerational workforces actually work, Gen X, Gen Z and everyone in between. Your take helps shape the research.