Hey, I’m Sarah.

I help mission-driven organizations navigate change and clarify strategy while keeping real people and real impact at the center.

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What I Do

Strategy & Alignment

Get clear on where you’re headed and how to get there, together.

  • Visioning & strategic planning

  • Theory of change

  • Systems strategy

  • Strategy-to-action roadmaps

Change Leadership

Guidance for navigating the heart work, systems, and practices that make change stick.

  • Leadership advising

  • Navigating change

  • Skill building for shared power, collaboration, and facilitative leadership

Co-Design &
Collaborative Process

Inclusive processes that build ownership and move work forward.

  • Process facilitation

  • Community engagement

  • Cross-sector collaboration

How I Work

In It with You

I roll up my sleeves and work alongside you. We’ll chart a clear path while building the capacity to make change stick.

Here for the Outcome

Your time is precious. Let’s focus our work on collaboration that moves you toward clear decisions and forward movement. The goal is always clarity you can use.

People at the Center

I bring structured thinking and thoughtful facilitation, but I also bring our humanity into the room. Well-timed wit, real talk, (and, obviously, good snacks) make the hard work fun.

Work in Action

  • reflecting on team strengths

    Building a Culture of Co-Design

    Embedding equity, shared leadership, and collaboration in systems and culture at IFF.

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  • Neighborhoods work together as a system to promote thriving.

    Neighborhood as Systems

    Building a community toolkit with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to anchor systems change in neighborhood leadership.

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  • Using Design to Make Jobs Better

    Launching a program with The National Fund for Workforce Solutions to co-design better jobs with frontline workers

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  • Realigning Healthcare with Community Priorities

    Equipping Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and community-based organizations to reimagine research as a tool to align health systems with community priorities.

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  • "Sarah’s ability to digest the complexities of our organizational goals, work, and culture and distill them into cogent frameworks and change management strategies has been beyond impressive. While organizational change is long-term work, Sarah’s contributions have laid the groundwork for our organizational development for years to come.

    — Client Partner

  • Sarah is an exceptionally strategic thinker who can make sense of complex, messy information and turn it into clear direction. She listens with intention, communicates with clarity, and makes collaboration both seamless and energizing. I've worked with her for over seven years and it’s been a true joy.

    – Colleague and Project Partner

  • "You bring such a thoughtful lens and positive energy to your thought partnership, approach to the work, and commitment to bringing equitable spaces and learning to communities."

    —Former client

  • "Wonderful facilitation. The frameworks, resources, and tools directly apply to our work and can be applied tomorrow."

    —Training Workshop participant

  • "This was an opportunity to practice and model distributed leadership, co-creation and collaboration, and equity in practice in service to navigating tensions and building strategy."

    —Former Client, Action Planning Workshop

  • "I'm grateful for the intentional design, spaciousness, facilitation, and opportunity to hear from those who are in the field. This was a space where we could be candid and consistently acknowledge legacies of harm that we have to address.”

    — Design Lab participant

Get in Touch!

Curious to learn more or got a project in mind? Drop me a line and we’ll figure out the way forward, together.

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