A truly exceptional professional

We had the great privilege of having Sara speak at the ELEVATE National Convention of the French Association of Professional Speakers in Paris.

Sara captivated the audience through both her expertise on The Language EffectTM, tailored to each audience, and her gentle presence on stage. Everything about her delivery was calm and composed, yet underpinned by a strong and unwavering conviction.

A truly exceptional professional.
Thank you, Sara, for this outstanding presentation.

– Jean-Philippe Ackermann

President of the French Professional Speakers Association (AFCP)

Some speakers use images. Sara Gilbert embodies them

I was fascinated by her ability to transform every visual into an experience. Her metaphors strike a chord, her examples resonate long after the presentation ends, and her energy immediately draws the audience in. You don’t simply watch a presentation; you travel through a world where every image becomes a living idea.

Her eloquence, pacing, and stage presence are remarkable. But beyond the performance itself, what I appreciated most was the woman behind the speaker: authentic, down-to-earth, approachable, and warm. She embodies what she teaches, making her message even more credible and inspiring.

This is the kind of encounter that leaves a lasting impression. The kind that invites us to reflect, to take action, and to look differently at the images that surround us. Her message is powerful and valuable for any leader or executive seeking to engage their teams through meaningful communication and the strength of conviction.

How do we move from words to action?
For organizations looking for a speaker who is inspiring, impactful, and deeply human, I wholeheartedly recommend Sara. 

– Marie-Do Quilici

Humorous keynote speaker. Silver Label recipient from the French Association of Professional Speakers. European Improvisation Champion. Psychosociologist. Actress. Author.

For any executive, manager, or team seeking to go beyond traditional communication training

Sara Gilbert has the rare ability to help you hear your own words differently, and to transform that awareness into an immediate lever for performance.

Her Language EffectTM is both a simple and powerful approach: the language we use every day reveals our beliefs, our automatic patterns, and our areas of uncertainty. Not to make us feel guilty, but to provide us with the tools to think, communicate, and act with greater precision and coherence.

At ELEVATE 2026 in Paris, Sara crossed the Atlantic to share this conviction. The audience received her message with that particular sense of recognition we experience when someone puts words to something we have intuitively sensed for a long time.

For any executive, manager, or team seeking to go beyond traditional communication training and explore something more fundamental, namely the mechanisms that truly govern our decisions and behaviours under pressure, Sara is a first-class speaker. Rigorous, authentic, and remarkably generous in her teaching style, she equips people with practical tools that continue to make an impact long after the conference has ended.

A member of the Forbes Coaches Council, the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, CAPS, and the NSA, her credentials speak for themselves. Yet it is her presence on stage that ultimately wins people over.

I recommend her wholeheartedly.

– Alexis Desjeux

Communication Advisor & Speaker

With her, you don’t just listen; you leave with a renewed perspective and insights that stay with you for days

I was deeply moved by the person behind the coach. After meeting her in Paris, I had the opportunity to attend her keynote in Mexico, as well as several of her workshops. Each time, the magic happens.

Sara has an exceptional talent for taking ideas that seem complex and making them simple and clear. She helps us see things differently, simply by changing the words we use. With her, you don’t just listen; you leave with a renewed perspective and insights that stay with you for days.

She has the rare gift of helping us realize just how much our words shape our reality. She makes complex business and psychological concepts accessible and, above all, immediately applicable in everyday life.

I recommend her without hesitation. With Sara, anything is possible!

– Marie-Eve Lavoie

Co-founder of SNABB & Growth Strategist

She WILL change the way you think for the better!

She lives her beliefs that anything is possible and makes you feel like you can achieve whatever you want.

Sara’s approach is science-backed and very applicable. She knows what works and shares the tools and techniques to help you be successful. She also presents her messages clearly and with the exact energy needed for that specific audience.

Her level of customization creates deep relevance and audience members see themselves in her message.

Most of all, Sara is incredible compelling and memorable. She is a guaranteed highlight at events!

Hire her. You won’t regret it!

– Kimberly Lyall

Keynote Speaker. Solutionary Leadership Strategist. Facilitator. Author.

She has an exceptional ability to create value for her audience

In a context where time is precious, attending a conference that delivers genuine value is rare. That is exactly the impression Sara Gilbert left on me.

I can confidently say that she has an exceptional ability to communicate with clarity, make complex ideas accessible, and instantly create value for her audience. Her content is rich, her thinking is profound, and, above all, the conversations she sparks afterward demonstrate just how deeply her message continues to resonate over time.

Sara has the rare ability to combine intellectual rigor, humanity, and tangible impact. Each presentation offers a perspective that brings clarity, recenters thinking, and opens new possibilities.

I recommend her without hesitation, both for the quality of her conferences and for the depth of the reflections she inspires.

– Véronic Laliberté

Area Vice-President, Corporate Financing & Senior Accounts – FCC Eastern Canada

She will enable your audiences to have more impact

I highly recommend Sara for her presentations on understanding how people learn and grow through the work she has done in psycho-linguistics and neuro-science.
She is an exciting, rigorous presenter and strategist and helps you understand what is important. She will enable your audiences to have more impact.

– Shelle Rose Charvet

Bestselling author and the international expert on Influencing Language

A wonderful speaker and an exceptional teacher

I have learned so much from Sara about how to be a more effective and engaging speaker, most recently when she spoke at a convention in Halifax.

Sara has a brilliant way of breaking down storytelling, metaphors and analogies so they’re not just tools, but really engaging techniques. One insight that really stayed with me was how stories engage the brain in a way that allows deeper messages to land without resistance. This is something I’ve started applying in my own workshops, with a noticeable difference in audience engagement.

She combines deep expertise with warmth, clarity and a calm authority that makes you want to listen and learn. Sara doesn’t just teach speaking skills; she helps you communicate in a way that feels more human, more memorable and more impactful. She is also fun and full of energy!

A wonderful speaker and an exceptional teacher.

– Chantal Cornelius

Marketing Consultant, Founder of Apple Tree Marketing

Speaker. Author.

Practical and applicable insights

Sara delivered an outstanding presentation. Her mastery of utilizing psycholinguistics to distinguish oneself provided our members with practical insights they can promptly apply to excel within their respective industries.

WOW!!! Sara WAS AWESOME!

Sara provided relevant information and, most importantly, thoughtful and strategic insights that will be useful for establishing a strategy. She adapted to the audience, professional, approachable, committed, efficient, and attentive to the room’s needs. It was a very focused audience, and it was evident that people were strongly considering what Sara was presenting to them.

A dynamic and caring approach for our members!

At the end of 2022, we contacted Ms. Gilbert to explore the possibility of collaborating on our new continuing education platform. Our platform was already packed with scientific conferences related to the veterinary profession, but we wanted to add a more management-oriented component. From the outset, we found Ms. Gilbert’s approach to be dynamic and supportive of our members. Her energetic personality and training in communication and leadership seemed perfectly suited to this first mandate. We look forward to continuing to work with her in the future, to the benefit of our members.

– Marie-Christyne Brosseau

General Manager, Association des médecins vétérinaires du Québec en pratique de petits animaux (AMVQ)

Sara delivers so much valuable insight in a short period of time

Her ideas are instantly helpful for executives, entrepreneurs, marketers and sales people – anyone who needs to lead or influence others.  And she makes the learning experience fun and joyful.

Sara’s workshops are an engaging mix of intellect and discovery.

– Roger Grant

participant at CAPS annual convention
Naming & Branding Strategist | Marketing Consultant | Professional Speaker

Sara is a great presenter with excellent presentation skills

Sara Gilbert presented to SAP Montreal for the Montreal Women’s business Group, an open invitation to all employees. The presentation was on “Putting yourself first” it was well received by our employees.

Sara is a great presenter with excellent presentation skills, which provided us with good strategies for time management, empowerment and setting priorities.

We specifically like her Two Minute Rule, and what is the Two-minute Rule? Well you will have to ask Sara Gilbert.

I highly recommend her as a business coach, or workshop facilitator. Thank you, Sara, once again!

– Dominique Pirolo

SAP Talent Career Strategist-Coach Certified

Well-structured training, relevant support materials

I really liked this training: well-structured, relevant support materials, well-adapted tools to support my role, among others a proposal for a simple and clear coaching approach.

The training gave me benchmarks, and reminded me of others: the interpersonal relationship is the guiding thread of the coaching process; establish a good relationship first; understand the profile of the entrepreneur I am accompanying (understand his vision of the world and work with it…), identify the ultimate motivator, guide him, get him out of his comfort zone, help him maintain the focus, reference as needed … And so on.

In short, I learned! Thank you for your approach and your professionalism. I would also like to congratulate you on your dynamic animation. Thank you for everything!

Finding solutions to problems can be simpler than we think

Sara, thank you for making “simple” the things we tend to overthink and therefore make “complicated”. The industry sometimes gets the best of us but you present in a way that the foundational roots to all problems can be simpler than we think.

It is far from easy but your passion, comprehension and sense of self, helped my group get in touch with core strategies in order to redefining planning and building.

– Matthew Leblanc

Regional Director, IG

Encourages participants to dare with humility and to take action

Sara is passionate for what she does and a great speaker, as she was able to pass on her experience and passion during the corporate webinar. The presentation was impactful for me and my team and very enriching.

She was able to provide interesting tips that will bring added value in our daily life. In addition to capturing our attention, Sara Gilbert not only pushed our resources to question themselves, but also encouraged them to dare with all humility and to take action.

– Léa Saadé

VPR Asset Management, Financière des professionnels – Gestion privée

Puts things back into perspective and provides a clear process

Sara’s presentation on effective communication was excellent. We often underestimate what spoken words really mean and tend to understand them the way we see fit. Sara’s conference puts things back into perspective and provides a clear process on how to understand, adapt and respond to different types of clients. Thanks Sara and looking forward to working with you again!

– Frederic Bendahan

Senior Manager – Investment – Product development

Well-structured training, relevant support materials, and loved by all personnel

I had the opportunity of engaging Ms. Gilbert to present to my retail Investment Advisors in Montreal on several topics over several years in relation to “growing your business”. She was a great presenter with excellent presentation skills, which provided us with good strategies for time management, empowerment, “how-to” actionable items, and setting priorities.

Sara’s high energy class on Wealth management was extremely beneficial, informative, and brought advisors to action. As you know, it is not easy to keep staff engaged for a couple of hours, let alone for a whole day! How about several days? Sara’s approach was dynamic, energetic, engaging, informative, and fun. She kept staff interested throughout the whole time.

I really liked this training as it was well-structured, and included relevant support materials. It also had well-adapted tools to support my role as Senior VP as Sales Manager, among others, a proposal for a simple and clear coaching approach. The training gave me benchmarks and reminded me of why we do what we do.

Her guiding strength relies on the interpersonal relationships she builds while going through the process of the coaching; establish a good relationship first; understand the profile of the entrepreneur “I am accompanying (understand their vision of the world and work with it…)”, identify the ultimate motivator, to guide them and get them out of their comfort zone. Then help them maintain focus. And so on!

In short, my staff learned and were brought to action! Thank you for your approach and your professionalism. I would also like to congratulate you on your dynamic animation. Thank you for everything!

I highly recommend her as a business coach or workshop facilitator. Thank you, Sara, once again!

– Riccardo Magini

Senior Vice-President, Laurentian Bank Securities

Inspiring and practical!

Thank you, Sara, for your impact, your contagious energy, and your valuable (and delicious) advice! Our group of advisors loved your presentation.

– Karine Gagnon

General Manager, Transat Distribution Canada Inc.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND HER!

I hired Sara to deliver a conference at an annual event.

She met my expectations by delivering the content with flair.

Dynamic, experienced, and adaptable are the words that come to mind following her performance.

Most importantly, the audience loved it!

I highly recommend her.

– Manuel Constant

Synergologist

Conferences and Training