Sarah-Marie Hopf, PCC is a leadership coach and facilitator who works with leaders navigating transition, complexity and periods of significant personal or professional change. Her work helps people access deeper inner resources so they can lead and relate with greater presence, clarity and trust.
Sarah-Marie’s approach is developmental, trauma-sensitive and grounded in more than 20 years of contemplative practice. She works with the whole person, helping clients recognize habitual ways of relating to themselves, others and uncertainty and develop more integrated ways of responding. Her practice draws particularly from Integral Coaching, Aletheia Unfoldment, mindfulness and contemplative development.
Alongside her coaching practice, Sarah-Marie brings substantial experience in leadership assessment and organizational learning. For more than six years, she worked as a 360° feedback and leadership assessment specialist with Learning as Leadership, conducting more than 1,280 feedback interviews for 125+ executive clients across Fortune 500 companies, startups and nonprofit organizations. That work gave her deep exposure to the strengths, counterproductive patterns, business challenges and organizational dynamics surrounding senior leaders.
Earlier in her career, Sarah-Marie worked at the intersection of institutional change, social innovation, research and human-centered design. At Ashoka U, she helped lead and redesign a global institutional-transformation process supporting colleges and universities across eight countries. Her broader work has included leadership development, entrepreneurship, systems change, research, facilitation and human-centered design across universities, mission-driven organizations and global companies.
Sarah-Marie is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), a Certified Integral Coach® through New Ventures West and a Certified Aletheia Coach. She is also a certified mindfulness meditation teacher through the training program led by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach and holds professional-level mindfulness-teacher certification. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College.
A German-American, Sarah-Marie is based in Asheville, North Carolina. Her work reflects a longstanding commitment to creating conditions for deeper presence, authentic connection and meaningful contribution.
What Sets Sarah-Marie Apart
Deep developmental practice integrating coaching, mindfulness and contemplative development
Particular strength with leaders navigating transition, complexity and meaningful thresholds
More than six years of executive 360° assessment experience, including 1,280+ feedback interviews for 125+ executive clients
Experience spanning leadership development, institutional change, social innovation and human-centered design
Former Ashoka U institutional-change practitioner with global higher-education experience
ICF PCC, Certified Integral Coach and Certified Aletheia Coach
More than 20 years of contemplative practice and extensive mindfulness training
Strong fit with mission-driven, reflective and values-led leaders and organizations