Sarah Templey
Sarah is a versatile project manager specialising in both IT-enabled and non-IT-led business change. She has a passion for applying psychology as a foundation for understanding how people interact, teams perform and business can transform. She finds it compelling because simple actions can have pronounced effects on complex situations. She believes this helps her to deliver strategic business change, lead and coach project teams.
She has worked in the industry for over 28 years, mainly in the engineering & construction sector, where she has held a variety of different roles. She has an engineering degree and a masters degree in psychology, as well as being a member of several professional bodies and a registered PRINCE2 Agile practitioner.
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Talks I've Given
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Lightning Talk: Bringing Playfulness into Mentoring: A Case Study
Featuring Sarah Templey
Often mentoring is seen as a for formal development relationship. Taking the view that people discover more when playing, this is a case study of creativity in a mentoring relationship that delivered a step change in the mentee’s thinking.
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Social Intelligence Helps, and Hinders, Teamwork … What You Can Do About It?
Featuring Sarah Templey
A look at team dynamics from an evolutionary psychology perspective and how social intelligence makes a difference to how people behave and collaborate. People have behaviours with psychological roots, which evolved many generations ago to keep them safe from predators. Today, when working in...
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Track Lead: Insights From Teams in Nature: Why Do Most Wolves Live in Packs?
Featuring Sarah Templey
Taking inspiration from cognitive and behavioural ecology, there are upsides, and a few downsides, to what wolves gain from living and working as a pack. What insights can be drawn from this and taken into our teams?
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