FoundHer Fire for you.
Not done yet – just done doing it WITHOUT A PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM?
Something feels to have shifted? You’re not imagining it.
You’ve cracked on for years. Built things, led things, fixed things. Held up the sky for organisations, teams, families – everyone, in fact, except yourself.
You’ve been capable, reliable, trusted. But now the roles don’t seem to fit. Maybe the culture you’ve been fixing needs to fix itself. Or maybe you’ve already walked away. Maybe you felt the knuckle in your back. Maybe you’re still in the building, still delivering, still holding it together with one hand while trying to find a shovel to dig your way out with the other.
You need to move, you’re not sure how.
You’re ready. You just need the right room.
Wondering if FoundHer Fire is for you? If you want to shift from stuck to moving, from running on empty to performing at your best, want tools that work in the real world and not just for five minutes in a workshop, and want more energy, clarity, confidence and courage, FoundHer Fire is for you.
WHAT THE FOUNDHER FIRE
SELF-LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME IS
It’s not a course, there’s no end date, no certificate. It’s not a one size fits all programme. And it’s not another thing on the to-do list. It’s a sustained self-leadership development membership, meeting you in the reality of your life.
The scaffold is helical by design: it doesn’t pretend life’s a straight line. Each week and month builds on the last through live calls and events, all recorded so you can plug and play if you’re in a personal time zone. Each quarter deepens what’s come before with a 1:2:1 coaching call. Progress compounds rather than plateaus. The cracking on – on purpose – you do in here holds under pressure in the world, not just in the room where you did it.
Give yourself permission.
No need to ask if you’re allowed. No more eroding self-trust.
Busy-ness makes autopilot necessary. Surviving on it over time means we forget permission is our right to act differently, through conscious choice.
Shifting even 1% from autopilot to informed and chosen makes all the difference.
Everything changes. You get to crack on – on purpose.
A membership with FoundHer Fire is your foundation permission
With FHF, you own the permissions:
- The permission to use our proven self-leadership frameworks
- The permission to crack on with self-generated intention
- The permission to validate your internal compass, to reclaim agency and authority
Is FoundHer Fire for you?
That hangover’s real
Whether you chose it or it chose you, leaving work, closing a self-made company, a organisation or a way of life has a cost that doesn’t show up immediately. Exit packages, however they look, might be in the bank but along with it comes the bruising. Confidence can be knocked sideways by poor management. A HR process can leave a bitter taste. Identity long tied to a role or company can make you feel you’ve lost yourself, not just a job. There’s a toll on your nervous system long after the lanyard was handed back or the paperwork filed.
Investing a portion of an exit agreement or redundancy package in FoundHer Fire membership isn’t a spend. It’s a recalibration. FoundHer Fire can also form part of an outplacement support package – practical, people-first and built for what actually comes next, not just what looks good on a leaving card.
For the women in the middle of the plot twist
A founder scaling up. A senior leader wondering how much longer she can hold this pace. A woman whose identity just shifted overnight – through redundancy, an empty nest, a business exit or a quiet internal reckoning that’s been building for years.
The circumstances are different. The territory is the same: uncertainty, recalibration and the sense that something has to change, even when you’re not quite sure what, or how, or whether you’re allowed to want more than this. FoundHer Fire exists for the in-between. Not when you’ve got it all figured out. Right now, in the middle of it. Because transition isn’t a problem to solve. It’s a moment to meet with the right scaffolding, the right people and a plan that’s actually built for your world.
For the women who’ve been fixing everything except themselves
Some women arrive in FoundHer Fire through long, slow reckoning. Decades of solving everyone else’s problems. Organisations, teams, clients, families, the occasional dusting off you give your ambitions. They arrive with brains full of ideas that butt against a chocka diary of everyone else’s priorities or the strange loneliness of looking successful while becoming a shadow bathed in applause.
Your leadership is needed – in your life, in your ambitions, but how? FoundHer Fire is where you finally show up for you. Not for everyone else. Not when there’s time. Now.
Still in it – but looking for the fire exit
Maybe you haven’t left yet. You’re still showing up, performing, being the version of you the role requires, which all takes energy. It makes the leap feel higher, wider. You need the net before you jump. You need to access confidence – the real kind, not the performed kind – in order to move.
FoundHer Fire doesn’t ask you to leap before you’re ready. It gives you baby steps with backbone: the toolkit, the thinking time, the peer intelligence and the coaching to build your Clarity Compass before you move. When you do go, you go on purpose. Not in reaction. Not in panic. On purpose.
FoundHer Fire’s built for your real world as it is right now
There’s no assumption you’ve got hours of headspace and no competing priorities. You start with your world – your real one, with all its complexity and load. Whether you’re navigating the early-stage hustle of a start-up, the growing pains of scale-up, or the sustained pressure of leading at the top, FoundHer Fire meets you where you are and makes it count.
Sarah Knight acts as a North Star as you find your Clarity Compass and develop your self-directed vector of travel. You’ll build consciously on what’s come before, creating the kind of sustained behavioural change that holds under pressure, not just in the room where it was learned, but on a wet Wednesday afternoon when everything’s coming at you at once.
That’s the difference between a programme and a scaffolding system. One ends. The other becomes part of how you operate.
The four pillars
that you develop in FoundHer Fire
The four pillars aren’t abstract concepts. They’re lived, practised qualities that change how you lead, decide and sustain yourself from here.
CLARITY & STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT
A Clarity Compass, giving direction, purpose and the ability to make decisions that are considered.
CONFIDENCE & EXECUTIVE PRESENCE
The real kind, rebuilt from the inside out and held under the kind of pressure that usually dismantles it.
COURAGE & LEADERSHIP VISIBILITY
Voice, visibility and the bold action that embodies self worth – not performing it.
ENERGY MASTERY & SUSTAINABLE HIGH PERFORMANCE
Sustainable high performance that includes rest, boundaries and joy as practice, not as reward.
These are human skills. The emotional intelligence, the growth mindset, the leadership capacity that’s been there all along – layered, refined and finally given the scaffolding to crack on.
They’re the difference between a woman who’s running on empty and quietly considering her options, and one who’s leading with full force and intention.
They’re also the difference between a leader who stays and one who doesn’t.
What being inside FoundHer Fire actually looks like
WELCOME: EXECUTIVE ONBOARDING & AUDIT
A one-to-one onboarding session with Sarah Knight – founder, advanced coach, NLP Practitioner and Emergenetics Associate – so the programme meets a realistic model of the world from day one.
THE MONTHLY RHYTHM: PEER ADVISORY
Calls that combine coaching, accountability and real-time support, peer advisory labs: fast, collective thinking from cognitively diverse women at similar life stages.
Every live call is recorded to work with your schedule.
EVERY QUARTER: 1:2:1 COACHING ENGAGEMENT
A dedicated 1:2:1 coaching session. This isn’t a check-in but full depth coaching engagement built into the structure, facilitating a quality of thinking that shouldn’t be a luxury but the point.
The monthly rhythm
Ignite clarity, confidence, courage, energy and forge infrastructure.
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1 Jun 26 – 1 Jun 26
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Sarah Knight – the woman behind FoundHer Fire
Advanced Coach | NLP Practitioner | Emergenetics Associate
Sarah Knight has spent thirty years working for and with global organisations – including McLaren, Santander, Boots, JCB, Hello Fresh and the FA. Twenty-four of those years as a business owner. She’s been a Communications Director, a Workplace Consultant, a People Director and a Business Mentor. She’s lectured in leadership and resilience, led teams through serious complexity and coached individuals through the kind of crossroads that don’t come with a manual. She built FoundHer Fire because the space that could hold the ambition, the complexity and the hard-won wisdom of this particular life stage simply didn’t exist. So she created it. Her frameworks are trusted by the UK’s leading businesses because they’re grounded in both research and reality, and inside FoundHer Fire, she’s in the room with you. In the live calls. In the one-to-ones. In the thinking that happens in between. Sarah’s mantra? Crack on, on purpose.
“I didn’t fully know what a scaffolding system was. Now it’s a part of my daily life. A group of women who ‘get me’. Support that’s there for all aspects of life: work, family, identity. Nearly a year on from meeting Sarah, I know I wouldn’t be where I am without her unwavering support and genuinely wonderful 360 scaffolding system.”
Clare Campion · Pregnancy & Baby Loss Workplace Consultant
Let’s start the conversation
FoundHer Fire works with a small number of forward-thinking organisations each year who are ready to invest in the women they work with.
To explore what a corporate partnership might look like, ask for our pitch deck.
The foundry’s lit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this a networking community or an individual coaching programme?
FoundHer Fire moves far beyond the typical definitions of a networking community or a basic coaching programme. It is a highly curated self-leadership scaffolding system and peer advisory network. While the ecosystem includes structured strategic frameworks and close proximity to Sarah Knight’s expertise, it fundamentally operates as your personal board of advisors – combining high-value professional and personal development with a cognitively diverse community of peers navigating these shared challenges with deep, lived-in wisdom.
What types of professional women are typically FoundHer Fire members?
FoundHer Fire is curated for senior, experienced women – including C-suite leaders, those navigating the critical C-suite minus 1 layer, start-up and scale-up founders, owner-operators, and dynamic team leaders and managers operating within high-pressure spheres. These are women who have outgrown traditional networking groups and are looking for a confidential, high-calibre space where sophisticated commercial ambition meets deep behavioural strategy.
I’m navigating a massive career transition. Is this space right for me?
Yes! FoundHer Fire is intentionally engineered to support critical career transitions – whether you are stepping into a complex enterprise role, pivoting from corporate leadership to entrepreneurship, or restructuring your professional horizon. The scaffolding system provides the exact strategic and psychological architecture needed to anchor your identity, protect your energy, and make your next macro-move with complete clarity.
How does FoundHer Fire help prevent burnout?
We do not address burnout with surface-level advice. Instead, we treat it as a structural challenge that requires energy mastery and sustainable high-performance frameworks. FoundHer Fire gives you the strategic tools to dismantle the habits of over-functioning that high-pressure corporate environments tend to reward. By teaching you to manage intense cognitive load and protect your baseline, we ensure your leadership longevity never comes at the cost of your wellbeing.
What is the COST to join FoundHer Fire, and how does onboarding work?
The investment is £111 + VAT per calendar month, with a minimum initial commitment of three months – after which you are welcome to remain within the ecosystem for as long as it serves your professional growth. To anchor your journey, every new member receives a dedicated 1:1 onboarding call with a member of our advisory board. This initial session allows us to map out your proprietary scaffolding system, closely examining your unique model of the world across life, load, business, and leadership.