Sacha Koffman has spent nearly three decades helping executives and teams achieve sustainable high performance through people. A former CEO, corporate executive and global consultant, he helps leaders create environments where people thrive and performance endures. Drawing on elite sport and embracing AI, he believes humanity, high care and accountability are enduring performance advantages.
What Are My Strengths
Sacha combines deep commercial experience, genuine human connection and constructive challenge to help leaders and teams perform at their best.
His strengths include building trust and psychological safety, developing self-awareness, navigating complex leadership challenges and strengthening team alignment and accountability.
His observational, real-world approach turns everyday leadership moments into opportunities for reflection, behavioural change and sustained performance improvement.
What Is My Experience
Sacha brings nearly three decades of experience developing leaders across all levels, from graduates and emerging talent to executive teams and CEOs.
His career spans global consulting, senior corporate leadership roles and founding and leading businesses.
He has designed and delivered leadership development, executive coaching and team performance initiatives for organisations including PwC, ANZ and the University of Melbourne, combining commercial insight, behavioural development and practical, workplace-based learning.
Capabilities:
Executive and leadership coaching
Team performance, trust and psychological safety
Leadership development workshops and facilitation
Individual and group/peer coaching
Targeted performance coaching and leadership sprints
Behavioural observation, feedback and reflection
Frontline, emerging and middle-management development
Executive team alignment and effectiveness
Leading through organisational change and complexity
Performance culture and organisational effectiveness
Leadership identification and Succession
Client Impact
Measurable client impact is always Sacha’s primary goal. He believes leadership development should deliver more than positive participant feedback or increased self-awareness. The real measure of success is meaningful behavioural change that improves individual, team and organisational performance — consistently and sustainably.
University of Melbourne | Executive Leadership, Culture and Performance
Partnered with the COO and executive leadership team to strengthen organisational culture, leadership effectiveness and performance across a workforce of approximately 14,000 people. The engagement extended from the executive team to approximately 500 leaders, focusing on leadership behaviours, trust, accountability and creating the conditions for collective performance.
Impact: Established a scalable approach to leadership development, strengthened alignment around desired leadership behaviours and contributed to an expanded engagement generating approximately $1.1 million in additional revenue.
ANZ | Accelerating High-Potential Leadership
As Global Talent Lead, Sacha led leadership and talent development initiatives, including the accelerated development of more than 200 high-potential leaders. His work focused on building leadership capability, preparing future leaders for greater responsibility and connecting development to organisational priorities.
Impact: Accelerated leadership readiness and strengthened the organisation's internal leadership pipeline.
Zoomo | Leadership and Talent During Rapid Growth
As Interim Global Head of Talent, Sacha partnered with the executive team during a period of rapid international growth, supporting an expansion of the engineering workforce from approximately 360 to 520 employees in eight months. His work included strengthening the employee value proposition, talent practices and executive team operating rhythms.
Impact: Supported rapid organisational scaling while improving the leadership and talent infrastructure needed to sustain growth.
PwC | Early-Career Leadership and Talent Development
As Senior Manager, Learning and Career Development, Sacha redesigned graduate development and leadership initiatives, including the firm's Summit program, connecting early-career learning with the behaviours, relationships and capabilities required for long-term professional success.
Impact: Strengthened early-career development and contributed to a period of exceptional internal Partner promotions.
Client Feedback and Testimonials
Sacha's approach is characterised by genuine care, commercial understanding, constructive challenge and the ability to build trust quickly with leaders at all levels. His work is designed to help clients feel both supported and appropriately challenged, with practical insights they can apply immediately in their everyday leadership moments.
Accreditations and Credentials
Academic Qualifications
Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) – University of East London (deferred)
Bachelor of Commerce (Honours), Finance, Economics and Econometrics – Monash University
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology – Monash University
Professional Accreditations
Certified Master Coach – Behavioural Coaching Institute
Dare to Lead Accredited Facilitator
HBDI Accredited Facilitator
Assessment and Development Tools
Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI)
Hogan 360
360-degree leadership feedback and behavioural assessment instruments
Specialist Facilitation DevelopmentThe Colin James Method – Communication, Presentation and Facilitation
Professional Experience
Nearly three decades in executive leadership, organisational performance, coaching and leadership development
Three lenses; almost 30 years; Former Founder and CEO, senior corporate executive and global management consultant