Sarah Elliott, PCC, CPA

Sarah believes the world needs more conscious, evolved leaders – leaders who lead with their minds and their hearts. Through leadership coaching, group learning, and consulting with organizations to create coaching cultures, she helps leaders access the Dimension of Possible: the place where fear no longer drives us, and love reigns.

Sarah is an author, speaker, and instructor on coaching and leadership development and an advocate for women in the CPA profession.

Prior to founding Intend2Lead, Sarah consistently balanced client service, firm management, and industry leadership throughout her career as a practicing CPA. She spent ten years at PwC, where she performed a two-year rotation in their National Office. She was also the national audit partner-in-charge of a high-growth, regional CPA firm and served on its executive and human resources committees. Her responsibilities included oversight of training and development, firm strategy, personnel management, technical accounting and auditing leadership, firm policy and methodology, and quality control.

In 2017, Sarah founded the Ellivate Alliance to connect people, ideas, and resources in a way that creates powerful new opportunities to elevate women entrepreneurs. The Ellivate Alliance provides women business owners the inspiration, practical know-how, and like-minded community to accelerate their growth.

Sarah actively serves her profession and local community, including membership in the CPA Consultants Alliance, several AICPA task forces, and a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consortium for leaders in accounting.

For several years, Sarah has been recognized by CPA Practice Advisor and AICPA as one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Accounting and by Practice Ignition as one of the Top 50 Women in Accounting. She also received the AWSCPA President’s Award and was recognized as a Rising Star by the TSCPA in 2017.

Sarah holds a Graduate Certificate in Executive and Professional Coaching from the University of Texas at Dallas and is a credentialed coach through the International Coach Federation. She earned a BBA in Accounting from Texas A&M University and is a licensed CPA in Texas.