About Sally

A glimpse into my story

I’m Sally Jean Fox, an author, seasoned coach, educator, artist, and transformational creativity consultant.

My friends call me wise, practical, intuitive, deep, inspiring, and one-of-a-kind creative. Which includes making big messes in the studio…Because now they also call me artist.

And the journey towards a fulfilling, exciting, creative life is what I’d like to share with you. 

If you’re like my other clients, you want a life that honors the spark living within you.—and you’re ready to design it artfully and creatively.  Maybe you’re ready to soar into new possibilities and create in ways you never thought possible.

Or maybe you’re ready to share your story—on paper, in performance, to describe your practice, or have fun with your friends.  

I’ve carried many titles, including professor, department chair, leadership coach, organizational consultant, professional speaker, manager and more. Today, I like to keep it simple: writer, speaker, artist, and coach to my wonderful creative clients.

Since I was a mere tyke, I’ve wanted to know people.

My grandmother loved to tell the story of finding me at five years old standing at a busy street corner several blocks from my home. She wondered WHAT I was doing.  

“Well,” I replied with a big smile, “You’ve just got to know people.”

I’m still that kid who wants to know people, whether I’m teaching, writing a book, blogging, or working around the world (France, Ecuador, Burkina Faso, Japan…for starters). 

Whenever I hear someone’s story, I naturally care about them.

Vital Facts:

Once convinced the Ecuadorian Air Force to fly her to the Galapagos Islands (I was teaching there at the time.)

Met her dream (and only) husband while working for different campuses of Antioch University.

Violated every good-sense gardening rule and created fourteen plus garden beds on her property her first two gardening years.

Loves Zumba, gardening, meaning-making, family, and her wonderful horse and dogs.

The more official bio

Sally Jean Fox, Ph.D. is a writer, performer, artist, and mentor who supports others to shape the stories they want to live and design artful and creative lives. She brings her clients a unique blend of intuition, insight, and practical strategies. 

An engaging and dynamic speaker, Sally shares in a way that feeds the spark in others.

She has helped hundreds of clients find their authentic voices, share their stories, and design their lives.

For over ten years, her Engaging Presence blog has inspired those wanting to live creative and meaningful lives in times of change. Her Vital Presence podcasts includes conversations with creatives who are showing what it is to live vitally—especially in the second half of life.

Sally has been an organizational consultant, university professor, department chair, manager, and leadership development coach. She holds a doctorate from the Fielding Graduate University and an M.B.A. from Yale.

Inspiring others to shape and share their stories.

 

Her early career was in international development where she worked in fourteen countries in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

Sally lives on an island near Seattle where she loves to spend time in her art studio, in the garden, or riding her Connemara mare, Mariah.

A Few Facts

Principal: Sally Fox
Age: Older than she looks!
Education: A lot:

  • Ph.D. Fielding Graduate University. (focus: leadership development)
  • MBA Yale
  • MA. University of Michigan, Sociology
  • B.A. Oberlin College
On a beautiful island a ferry ride from Seattle
She began consulting in 1984, providing business development and strategy support for small businesses. Her focused changed to leadership as she discovered that without collaboration and synergy, business development can’t happen. And now she’s bringing in the power of presence and story into her coaching and facilitation.
Faculty Director of a Master’s program in Management for Antioch University Seattle. Product development manager for an early internet service provider. Photojournalist in Ecuador. Manure picker at the Yale stables
Service providers who want a genuine connection with their clients Executive directors, nurses, managers, engineers, scientists, doctors, computer whizzes, project managers, etc.
Connecting deeply with clients.
Bought her first horse at 42. Loves riding and caring for her inimitable-where’s-my-carrot Connemara mare “Mariah” (aka Miss Personality!)
Cuenca, Ecuador; Oagadougou, Burkina Faso; Tokyo, Japan; Cartagena, Columbia; Berlin, Germany.
Improv, her latest clowning class, meditating, writing and …performing stories!

Her husband Steve