Hi, I’m Sarah Siwak!
I am a coach and consultant. I started Blobworks because I love helping people feel energized about work. ✨
I am a former technology founder and executive. 🗺️ I’ve lived and studied in New England and Russia, and worked in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and Tokyo.
I am based in Chicago. 🏺 In my free time, I practice pottery and game design.
Why work with me?
In my career, I’ve studied the many ways we approach work. I’ve managed through a variety of different professional events: hypergrowth and mass layoffs, company launches and closures, restructures, fundraises, and intense public news cycles. I launched and grew a logistics company during lockdown. And I’ve done a variety of forms of work, from gig and part-time positions, to venture-backed entrepreneurship.
From these firsthand experiences, I can help you:
Lead during extreme events with integrity and sensitivity
Find joy and build resilience and connection in uncertain and transitional times
Stay healthy while driving high performance
Change habits, to recover from burnout and break from workaholism and perfectionism
Make major career changes, from promotions to changing industries
How does it work?
In coaching, you are the expert in you. My practice supports your change and growth through:
Providing a nonjudgmental, reliable place to talk and explore your challenges and goals
Helping you form your own definitions of concepts like leadership, work, career
Making sustainable day-to-day change through small, practical experiments
Receiving feedback through a paired creative problem solving process
Research-based, trauma-informed inquiry to help you contextualize experiences
For your wellbeing, throughout our work together, I am open about when, where, and how other forms of support might be beneficial for you, and when a question or goal is beyond my scope.
Let’s work together.
We’d love to see how we can help you. Schedule a call to get started, or send us a question to see if we’re a fit.