Meet the founder
When Sarah was a young girl, she fell in love with her grandmother Liza's stories of teaching in Egypt. The first time she ever embraced her inner educator was as a 10-year old on the beach, where she'd gather her younger friends and draw letters and numbers in the sand, trying to recreate the magic of learning she felt from her own grandmother. Today, Sarah ElRaheb-Dagher is an educator, leadership coach and pedagogy specialist who has taught thousands of individuals globally the power of purpose-driven, heart-led leadership.
With a Master's degree in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education, Sarah focuses on education as a tool for personal, political and organizational change. She has spent the last decade teaching, training and designing courses alongside her mentor and dear friend Dr. Marshall Ganz through Harvard Kennedy School, including helming an adaptation of Public Narrative for Executive Education, and designing an Organizing course for Stanford University based on Ganz's pedagogy. She has led over 200 courses, projects and workshops working with mayors, community leaders, executives, TED Talk speakers, international women politicians, and many more from organizations and institutions such as the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, Nike, Vital Voices, LEGO, and MIT.
Sarah co-founded UforChange, a Toronto-based arts education nonprofit. During her tenure, the organization received the prestigious Queen's Diamond Jubilee award. Sarah's focus was on developing innovative arts programming and creating pathways to post-secondary education for young people aged 16-29. Her efforts resulted in a significant increase in post-secondary enrollment, elevating it from 17% to an impressive 73% among the students involved with UforChange. She is the founder of Ellb Education, which is the holder of her life's work and a tribute to her grandmother. When she is not working, Sarah is a loving mother and partner, a writer, and a lipstick aficionado.
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At Ellb we’re inspired by the heart
The word “ellb”, or “qalb” in Arabic means heart. Our approach to teaching and learning is inspired by the heart, as emotions are key actors in driving action and change. With a heart-led approach to leadership and teaching, clients and collaborators emerge from these learning experiences more connected as a community, with a deeper sense of mission, and with concrete action steps for the future. “Ellb” is also a nod to Sarah’s family name, ElRaheb, with the second two letters, LB, being the initials of her beloved grandmother Liza, who is the inspiration behind her work.
Services
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Leadership Training & Workshops
Leadership training and workshops such as those listed below can be tailored and customized for specific contexts, whether staff retreats, conferences, educational programs, or more. Currently, we offer workshops in:
Leadership Coaching
How to motivate leadership through asking questions and building the internal capacity of those you are working with
Public Narrative
Stories of self, us, and now for the purposes of social and political change, based on Marshall Ganz’s curriculum. Empathetic leadership in situations of loss, difference, power, and change. Narrative analysis of power inequality.
Organizing
Workshops that focus on leadership practices of coaching, narrative, relationship building, team structure, strategy and action.
Teaching Trainings
How to teach leadership content with best teaching practices such as creating learning objectives, facilitation skills and tactics, asking effective questions, debriefing learning, and teaching from takeaways.
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Curriculum Development
We work closely with your team to develop curricula that are specific to your goals. Whether it’s adapting existing curricula or designing and building new and innovative content, we collaborate to imagine and execute experiential learning for participants and students.
Examples of past curricular development work include designing an 8-week issues-based curriculum for Nike’s Legacy program for community leaders, adapting Marshall Ganz’s Harvard course in organizing for Stanford University, adapting the Public Narrative course at Harvard Kennedy School for Executive Education’s online program, and designing standalone learning modules on leadership coaching for New California Arts Fund.
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Executive Coaching
Sarah or another senior coach can work 1:1 with executives and leaders for:
Story Coaching
Supporting and coaching the development of a public narrative that helps to express a leader’s calling, connection to community and call to action.
Leadership Coaching
Working with executives and leaders to identify roadblocks in their own leadership practice, gain motivation and skills, and improve balance and performance.
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Facilitation
Our team can work with you to increase productivity, efficiency, harmony and team function during important meetings, leadership retreats, board meetings and team-building sessions by providing boutique facilitation services.
If you are interested in booking an initial consultation to discuss any of these services in further detail, please reach us through the contact form, and expect a response within 24 hours.
Clients & Collaborators
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Well-told stories help turn moments of great crises into moments of new beginnings.
— Marshall Ganz