Co-founder & CEO, a)plan coaching
Sara Ellis Conant is a coaching-industry pioneer with over 20 years experience. She started coaching in 2000 after being trained by her father, Dave Ellis, one of the founders of the coaching industry. Ellis Conant is co-founder and CEO of a)plan coaching, an optimized, scalable, and tech-enabled virtual coaching service for changemakers. She and her team of a)plan coaches assist individuals and teams to make lasting improvements in the areas of productivity, innovation, diversity & belonging, talent retention, wellbeing, and more.
Previously, Ellis Conant was at Deloitte Consulting where she managed the launch of Deloitte’s sustainability and corporate responsibility practice from inception to $150 million. She is co-founder of Young Women Social Entrepreneurs and also served on the board of RSF Social Finance for 10 years. She has a master’s of business administration and a bachelor’s in sociology from Stanford University and divides her time between the Bay Area and Maine with her husband and their four children.