Beaming beacon of positivity and unparalleled source of motivational energy. Saara's professional aspiration is to transform client's lives utilizing approaches that are fun, engaging, and exciting. Under her tutelage and guidance clients learn to make sustainable long-term changes, without resorting to ineffective fitness fads, destructive diets, or other trendy nonsense. Her academic background and personal passions are firmly rooted in performance psychology and health promotion, and she strives to push people to be their best selves.

In college, Saara received an athletic scholarship for diving and studied kinesiology (human movement), health promotion, and psychology. Deciding that sport and exercise was totally her thing, she moved to Finland to pursue a Master`s degree in Sport and Exercise Psychology. While studying, she was also diving for the Finnish National team and training for the 2008 Olympics where she was the first overall alternate for the Beijing games. Saara has coached and trained divers of all levels from beginner to international in three different countries. Having worked with many Olympic level coaches and athletes, she knows what works and what doesn't. Saara leverages her unique combination of academic excellence, athletic prowess, and extensive experience when training and coaching clients. There's a masterful method to her madness: she received her PhD in Sports and Exercise Psychology (if you are interested in some of her research work click here), Saara was also an appointee for the Colorado Governors council of Active and Healthy Lifestyles and sat on the communications committee as the Denver representative for 2 terms and was part of helping to make Colorado one of the healthiest states in the nation.

She’s been a coach for 26 and her current passion is corporate performance training using sports based science adapted to the workplace. In addition to unlocking potential for ADHDers in the workplace. She’s in her 7th year of her corporate moveatworkchallenge.com program which helps hundreds of humans daily and helps them feel happier and healthier at work.

In her free time she enjoys traveling, gardening, home reno, working out, crafting, and exploring all that Colorado has to offer with her husband and boxers.

The fancy pants stuff that makes Saara qualified to work with you: 

• Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and Health Promotion

• Master of Science in Sport and Exercise Psychology

• PhD in Sports and Exercise Psychology

• Appointed member for 2 terms on the Colorado Governors Council for Active and Healthy Lifestyles

• Some of the courses Dr. Saara has taken as part of her degrees :

  ·     Developing Effective Learners

  ·     Crises, Chronicity & Social Networks

  ·     Foundations of Coaching

  ·     Motivation

  ·     Integrated Research Communication

  ·     Life Course, Motivation & Health

  ·     Psychology of Coaching

  ·     Public Speaking

  ·     Stress and Coping

  ·     Project and Conference Skills

  ·     Psychological & Social Aspects of Human Movement

  ·     Sport Psychology

  ·     Adult Fitness

  ·     Advanced Knowledge of Sport & Exercise Psychology

  ·     Bio-mechanics of Human Movement

  ·     Current Issues in Sport & Exercise Psychology

  ·     Developmental Exercise Psychology

  ·     Emergency Management of Injury and Illness

  ·     Emotions in Sports

  ·     Foundations of Health Promotion

  ·     Health Appraisal & Exercise Testing

  ·     Lifespan Motor Development

  ·     Methods of Training and Conditioning

  ·     Physiology of Exercise

  ·     Prevention of Athletic Injury & Illness

  ·     Principals of Nutrition