Sara Walshe brings a uniquely powerful perspective to leadership coaching as a former prosecutor who spent 18 years investigating fraud and corruption before transforming her career to help high-achieving professionals access their most underutilized resource: intuition.

During her legal career, Sara conducted complex investigations at various inspectors general offices before moving to the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, where she prosecuted financial fraud and public corruption. Her career-defining achievement came when she led a year-long investigation uncovering a "shadow utility company" that resulted in 37 indictments and complete prosecution success. While this work showcased her analytical prowess and commitment to justice, it also revealed to her the limitations of purely rational approaches to complex challenges.

Parallel to her legal career, Sara immersed herself in Eastern philosophy and mindfulness practices, accumulating over 600 hours of yoga training. This dual path created a unique understanding of how intuition and analytical thinking can work together rather than in opposition. After experiencing burnout during the pandemic and taking a sabbatical to reconnect with herself, Sara discovered coaching as a pathway to integrate these seemingly disparate worlds.

Today, as an intuitive leadership coach, Sara works primarily with high-achieving professional women who excel in analytical fields but feel disconnected from their deeper wisdom and true purpose. Her practice, Upswell Coaching, helps clients distinguish between what she terms "experienced intuition" (pattern recognition based on expertise) and "inner intuition" (deeper knowing that transcends logical reasoning).

What makes Sara's approach distinctive is her framework connecting neuroscience with intuitive development. She teaches clients to recognize how the autonomic nervous system influences decision-making, showing how the sympathetic "fight-flight-freeze" response amplifies fear-based reasoning while quieting the intuitive voice. Through targeted mindfulness practices that activate the parasympathetic nervous system, she helps clients access their intuition reliably and intentionally.

Her coaching methodology involves both one-on-one sessions and group programs like monthly The Intuition Lab, where participants learn practical techniques to develop intuitive leadership skills. Sara focuses on helping clients understand their intuition's unique characteristics—where it resides in their body, what sensations accompany it, and how to distinguish it from fear-based thinking.

The outcomes of her work are transformative: clients report greater confidence in decision-making, enhanced leadership presence, improved stakeholder relationships, and alignment between their professional paths and personal values. Many discover innovative solutions to longstanding challenges and develop a more authentic leadership style that doesn't require conforming to traditional professional models.

Sara's diverse background gives her unique credibility when working with professionals in evidence-driven fields, as she understands firsthand the vulnerability of acknowledging intuition in environments that prioritize data and logic. Through her coaching practice, workshops, and speaking engagements, she's transforming how professional women approach leadership, negotiation, and self-trust in ways that traditional leadership development often overlooks.