Coaching Services
Fanta Sarah, LLC
What is coaching?
Coaching is a partnership that helps you develop a plan to reach your personal, academic, and/or career goals. You can work with a coach when you would like support in managing your workload, developing new skills, navigating challenges, communicating more effectively, changing habits, resolving conflict, and more!
What can it help with?
Changing habits & shifting your mindset
Creating and carrying out a plan for your academic and/or career journey
Managing relationships (communication strategies, conflict resolution, etc.)
Time management and productivity
Any personal and/or professional goal!
What is the commitment?
You can book one session to deal with something specific.
You can schedule weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly sessions between 1-6 months to move towards a larger goal. At least 6 sessions are recommended.
You can stop anytime!
Coaching Offerings:
Individual Development Coaching
This is a partnership between the client and the coach in which I facilitate a process of development toward a goal. We will create and carry out a plan to help you embody your vision of success.
DEI Leadership Coaching
I help leaders passionate about DEI set and achieve equitable and inclusive DEI learning, process, and project goals. You will be supported in developing and implementing DEI initiatives while also building your inclusive leadership skills.
Group Coaching
Intergroup dialogue, restorative practices, and peer mentoring are integrated with coaching practices to offer social support in the coaching process.
Who do I work with?
All are welcome to book a session! However, I specialize in working with:
Individuals underrepresented in their field seeking support in achieving their personal, educational, and career goals.
Individuals seeking support setting and achieving their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals.
Groups seeking a community of support in carrying out their goals.
"If you embark on this coaching journey, I can help you set a clear goal, create an actionable plan, and carry it through to completion."
-Fanta (Coach)
Values: L I G H T
Love | Insight | Growth | Health | Thankfulness
Motto: See Light | Be Light | Spread Light
We all have light within us. Once we are able to recognize that light, we can embody it, grow it, and share it.
Evidence-based coaching practices are used to ensure that all clients are adequately supported in their development.
Nerys Benfield, MD, MPH
"Fanta has been a transformative presence. Ms. Sissoko is truly passionate about institutional transformation and has been a wonderful partner in the work to make our healthcare, research, and educational environments more inclusive and equitable with a focus on anti-racism."
Stephanie Degraft, RN
"Fanta shared her light with me and now I'm passing it on to others."
Chelsea Pegues
"Fanta is organized, friendly, supportive, and eloquent in all of her correspondence. She is such a pleasure to communicate with. In a graceful manner, she has provided me with new perspective on how to approach certain tasks. I sincerely appreciate her upbeat attitude.
Coach Biography
Fanta is passionate about using coaching and consulting to advance learning & development related to DEI and racial equity. Her mission is two-fold; to help people achieve their growth goals and to help organizations become more equitable and inclusive. She coaches individuals and groups of diverse students or employees in advancing in achieving their vision of success. She also coaches leaders in pushing their DEI goals and initiatives forward.
Her company, Fanta Sarah, helps people effect positive change within themselves, their organizations, and society.
Fanta has developed a career portfolio that includes work in diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, teaching, program management, recruiting, and community engagement. Fanta aims to foster equitable work and educational experiences for students and employees with a focus on individuals from historically marginalized backgrounds. Some of Ms. Sissoko’s contributions to this aim include developing and implementing programming, cross-functional project management, facilitating dialogue, communications, and supporting leaders in organizational change management. Fanta designs programs and workshops that help those underrepresented in their field build community and achieve their goals. She has worked in K-12 education, higher education, tech recruiting, and academic medicine.
Coaching Credentials
M.S. - Executive Coaching and Organizational Consulting - New York University (NYU) - In progress
International Coaching Federation (ICF) PCC accreditation - In progress
Education
B.A. - Sociology with a minor in International Studies and a certificate in Community Development - Siena College
Certificate - Diversity and Inclusion - Cornell University
Certificate - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - NYU
Certificate - Foundational Restorative Justice - University of San Diego.
Certificate - Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion for Organizational Excellence - Stanford University
Helping you & your organization spread light through coaching and consulting.
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Fanta Sarah, LLC