№ 01Founder · full bioMuddy Lotus

SarahWalker

A strategist, executive advisor, and psychologically intelligent facilitator.
A spiritually literate guide for pressure, grief, leadership, and self-trust.

PracticeAotearoa New Zealand · worldwide
LanguagesBoardroom · human room · contemplative
Years inTwenty-plus, and counting
practicein bloom →

Most spirituality lacks groundedness. Most executive coaching lacks soul. Most trauma work lacks humour and dimensionality. Most wellbeing brands avoid darkness. Sarah does not.

Founder's line · Muddy Lotus
The bio in four movements

Four rooms
One practitioner

Strategy · governance · high stakes
IBoardroom

Twenty years in rooms where the stakes were never theoretical

Sarah has worked with corporate and government clients, Chairs, Boards, CEOs, executives, senior teams, and organisations for more than 20 years, often in complex environments where performance, culture, governance, and trust all matter. She is at home in a strategy session, a crisis response, and the long, quiet conversation after the room has cleared.

Bespoke · human-scaled · honest
IIHuman room

Warmth, integrity, humour, and a very large heart

She is known for connecting quickly with people from all walks of life. Her work is bespoke by nature: carefully shaped around the person, team, or organisation in front of her. The polish is real; so is the laugh in the next breath.

Spiritual · embodied · clear-eyed
IIISoul work

She has heard the universe since she was little

Sometimes guides, loved ones, and quiet signs join the conversation. Muddy Lotus is the home for that side of the practice, brought together with neuroscience, Buddhism, positive psychology, wellbeing, coaching, and first-hand understanding of anxiety, grief, stress, pressure, and rebuilding.

Plain-spoken · earned · ready
IVBloom

Wellbeing and spirituality should feel accessible and real

Not pristine. Not performative. Muddy Lotus has been a long time in the making, carefully developing until, like the lotus itself, it waited for the right moment to bloom. The mud is the point. The bloom is the proof.

The weave

Not a stack of certifications. A working ecology. Sarah moves between modalities the way a good practitioner moves through a room: reading the season, the person, and what the moment asks.

wellbeingpositive psychologyexecutive coachingspiritual workneuroscienceBuddhismstrengthsfacilitationmemoirtrauma-informedhigh-performancegovernanceintuitionritualhumourboundaries
Credentials & threads

Earned slowly Held lightly

20+ yrsExecutive & board workCorporate · government · high stakes
PostgradPositive psychologyPostgraduate diploma · wellbeing
AccreditedGallup StrengthsStrengths-based coaching
LLB (Hons)Law & governanceStrategy · risk · structure
LifelongSpiritual practiceBuddhism · contemplative · intuitive
OngoingNeuroscience & nervous systemTrauma-informed practice
Working with Sarah

Bring the real question
Sarah will bring the whole self

Spiritual sessions, coaching, executive rooms, workshops, and editorial projects begin with a conversation. No funnel. Just enough context, a clear next step, and a willingness to do the actual work.