Sarah Ciavarri, M.Div., BCC, PCC, CRA, CDTLF, is president of Level Up Leadership, LLC, a coaching, leadership consulting, and curriculum design firm.
Sarah works with senior leaders and mid-level managers across healthcare and community-based organizations to maximize their impact. In addition to facilitating Dr. Brené Brown’s curricula, Sarah has dedicated her career of over 25 years to helping leaders and teams flourish. Sarah is the author of Finding our Way to the TRUTH: Seven Lies Leaders Believe and How to Let Them Go. Currently, she serves as the Curriculum Design Director and Executive Coach for the Jordan Project, a $1.25 million grant awarded to Grand View University, Des Moines, IA.
As a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation, with over 1400 executive coaching hours, Sarah brings clarity and compassion so leaders begin to change unproductive behaviors and beliefs that limit their impact. She is an award winning sought after keynote speaker on resilience, burnout, and compassion fatigue prevention.
Sarah finished her corporate career as Vice President of Spiritual Life for a large senior healthcare organization based in Minneapolis, MN. Sarah adds rigor to her coaching skills by earning certifications including DISC, Motivators, and EQ2 Assessment Certification, Train the Trainer Certification, 1600 hours of Clinical Pastoral Education, and Board Chaplain Certification. She earned a Master of Divinity from Luther Seminary, where she was a Presidential Scholar.
National Speakers Association-MN Chapter Spring Gala, 2024. Receiving the Speaker Academy Award, nominated by fellow academy members.
Fall 2012: Daring Greatly Training with Brené
Sarah is a Certified Facilitator of all of Dr. Brené Brown’s curricula: Dare to Lead, Daring Greatly, Bold, and The Gifts of Imperfection. Sarah has facilitated over 200 workshops on Dr. Brown’s research and has supported thousands of leaders to dream and live big. Sarah is among those who have been facilitating Brené’s research since the beginning. Sarah has the unique honor of being among just a handful of facilitators dual certified in Dare to Lead and Daring Greatly. In addition to this honor, Sarah was asked by the Daring Way senior leadership to step into greater responsibility eight years ago within Brené’s organization as a Case Consultant supervising candidates through integrating Brené’s research into their context.
FUN FACTS: Sarah sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a nationally televised Twins game. (The recording is at the bottom of this page.) And the Twins won.
Sarah lives on a small farm with her family, a herd of sheep, and three horses that are the best therapy money can buy.
Sarah and her spouse designed and built their home. She can use a plumb bob, wire a house, and - best news of all - the house is still standing!
Sarah put herself through grad school by singing and dancing. . . and cleaning houses.
Target Field, Minneapolis, MN
