Sarah Graves
Invite Change
Sarah Graves passionately and practically pursues the development of leaders through intentional, organic growth. She emboldens leaders to create an environment where management is expansive, willing to move with agility beyond comfort zones, and to champion the individual and collective genius within the organization. With teams in transition she inspires connection, realignment and forward progress within the awkward movements of the changing landscape. Her belief is that coaching is as essential an element for an organization as the product or service the company produces. “An employee who grows personally, grows professionally” and coaching seeds growth.
HER STORY
Working her way through college in the restaurant business, food and wine became her lifelong major. Sarah recruited, trained and coached teams opening restaurants in Portland, Laguna Beach to San Francisco, working with top chefs and designers such as Wolfgang Puck and Pat Kuleto.
She moved to her passion for wine in 1991, launching new wines and wineries for over a decade as Regional Manager at Kendall-Jackson. She was on the leadership team that took the brand direct in the state of California, a bold and innovative move. She was the Northern California sales manager and eventually returned to her roots in the Northwest in 2000. During her 13 years with the Jackson Family, she was a recruiter and trainer for merchandisers to VPs to increase sales, wine knowledge and competitive acumen. She delivered two workshops for work life balance called “Don’t Wait to Exhale” and “The Art of Listening”. She was gifted the knowledge of the importance of brand integrity by masters of the industry.
As VP of On-Premise Wine Sales at Young’s Market Company Oregon her team created and implemented incremental revenue year over year with programs such as Pinot Passion, Champagne Campaign, Banquet & Catering Initiative, Leave No Stone Unturned. Her experience in recruitment, training, preparation, strategy, has demonstrated consistently excellent results, top talent retention and job satisfaction. She celebrated and cultivated women employees and key accounts via “Women Who Love Wine” events, pairing women entrepreneurs, winery owners or winemakers and a health component whether a naturopath or nutritionist, launched an internal Toastmaster group and consistent 1:1 coaching.
Sarah studied motivation and human potential throughout her tenure eventually following her heart into becoming a fulltime professional coach. Since 2015, she has worked with executives, entrepreneurs, designers, millennial leaders, housewives, the underserved and the voiceless to live from wholeness to experience and create the life they desire and be a positive influence in the world.
She is currently the Chief Relationships Officer at inviteCHANGE, LLC, an organization that partners with individuals and enterprises across the globe for learning and development, professional coaching and coach-centered culture consulting so that they can engage boldly and be the cause of positive change in the world.
Sarah Graves
SARAH GRAVES, PCC
Chief Relationship Officer + Generative Wholeness Practitioner
W. invite CHANGE
E. sarah.graves@invitechange.com
P. 877-228-2622 Ext. 203
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN SARAH’S WORLD:
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May 2020 Where in the World is inviteCHANGE? Global webinars from iC Professional Coaches during International Coaching Week
July 20, 2020 Women in Wine: Fermenting Change in Oregon
SAVE THE DATE: September 9-11, 2020 inviteCHANGE conference Miami Beach, Fountainbleau: Thought Leaders from Around the World Actively Engaging with the Challenges of the Day
