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A photo of Sarah Haler, VA, in a park, smiling.

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About

#VirtualAdminAngel

Hi! My name is Sarah Haler and I run Halo Virtual Assistance as an independent, remote Administrator (Virtual Assistant) from my home office in Chadwell Heath, Greater London.

I thrive on routines and organisation and get overly excited by things like inbox zero, GTD (getting things done), and the multiple inbox option in Gmail! I am passionate about creating efficient processes, maximising productivity, and helping to relieve some of the stress that comes from overwhelming workloads.

As a Virtual Assistant, I offer remote admin support to churches and charities, allowing ministers, managers, and CEOs time to focus on tasks that contribute to the growth of their ministry or charity (or even to take some well-deserved time off).

My background


I have worked in offices in a variety of industries, starting with my temping days at The Environment Agency, and including diverse roles such as sales and marketing for an upmarket Italian furniture brand, a PA role with a leading Italian beer company, and various administrative roles with churches and charities. These have given me a wealth of experience and allowed me to learn how to use many tools and resources, it was becoming a parent that really made me hone my time management and organisational skills! I am also a keen advocate of lifelong learning and like to embrace new and more effective ways of working. This attitude and a willingness to share my knowledge and help others earned me the reputation of a go-to person amongst my colleagues.

More about me

 

  • I volunteered with Coaching through COVID and Beyond from April 2021 until February 2024 and found it very rewarding. Read more about why I volunteer here.

  • I am passionate about environmental issues and reduce, reuse, and recycle as much as I can. I am currently pursuing ways to reduce plastic use in my home. In my business, I adopt green working practices and reduce business waste as much as I can.

  • I love learning languages - I speak fluent Italian, good (but rusty) French, a smattering of German, and am currently learning Spanish.

  • I spend too much time playing word games and am interested in semantics and the etymology of words.

  • I love to travel when I get the opportunity and especially adore Italy after spending a year studying in Bologna.


What do others say about me?

 

See my testimonials below.

Where can you find me?


On LinkedIn
My hashtag: #VirtualAdminAngel


Or simply email me at sarah@halo.london

I look forward to hearing from you!

sunny and can-do

I had the pleasure of working with Sarah on Coaching through COVID and Beyond, a pioneering pro bono coaching initiative which I and my co-founders set up as a rapid response in March 2020 to COVID, with the purpose of providing coaching to healthcare workers suffering from the impact of COVID – whether mental, physical, emotional or other. It was both innovative and adaptive, responding to the plethora of new situations and needs that arose on an ad hoc basis: part of the philosophy of Coaching through COVID and Beyond was to respond quickly rather than perfectly, and that took significant energy, flexibility and resourcefulness on a daily basis, as we were inventing new systems as we went along, while maintaining business as usual and expanding exponentially. All of our work and team work was conducted remotely. Sarah led the administrative and record-keeping arm of Coaching through COVID and Beyond, and in that role she was unrelentingly efficient, cheerful, enthusiastic, engaged, committed, observant with an eye for detail, and able to think broadly about the situations that arose. She brought great energy, reliability and goodwill, sometimes under significant pressure. Somehow she seemed always on top of what needed doing, and equally, she was able to say when she wasn’t on top of it (which was the case for all of us, at one time or another). Importantly, too, she ran very effective relationships with other team members, including new joiners, and always joined the dots and communicated well. She was always sunny and can-do, which was important in the new territory we kept finding ourselves in. Sarah was a very valued member of the team, and I really enjoyed and appreciated working with her.

Lindsay Wittenberg

Executive Coach, Lindsay Wittenberg Ltd

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