Sally Starbuck Stamp is a Board certified coach and consultant who works with individuals, teams and organizations primarily in the areas of leadership development, communication effectiveness, culture transformation, and life/work balance. Her experience includes work for a variety of health care and technical organizations as both an internal change agent and external coach and advisor.

Sally utilizes a strengths-based approach to work and life that allows individuals, teams and organizations to optimize their positivity and potential. Her work is characterized by collaboration and co-creation with her clients. She is committed to developing client relationships that encourage personal growth and development in an environment of safety and trust.

Sally incorporates the Extraordinary Groups research into her work with teams to help make the teaming experience more positive and more productive. Her individual coaching clients typically develop coaching skills that enhance their leadership development. In all of her work, Sally utilizes her coaching and counseling skills of active listening and provocative questioning to stimulate thought and action for clients.

Sally holds a Masters in Counseling from Arizona State University and undergraduate degrees in Sociology and Psychology from Denison University and Nursing from Kent State University. She is a frequent presenter at conferences and has been a regular contributor to Veterinary Team Brief where she co-authored a year-long series on Positivity in the Workplace.

She co-created a game to teach table manners and authored The Proper Pig’s Guide to Mealtime Manners (Kowal, L.A. and Stamp, Sally Starbuck, Five Star Publications, 1996). Sally also served as lead researcher and editorial advisor for Getting Your Shift Together: Making Sense of Organizational Culture and Change (Pellet, Lizz, and Bouchard, P.J., CCI Press, 2000).