Signature Keynotes
Built from 25 years of strategic practice.
Each keynote starts with a framework Sara developed inside real organizations — then gets tailored to your audience and your moment. Sara doesn’t give the same talk twice.
The Intelligence Gap™Better Intelligence. Better Decisions.
Leaders ask questions to get responses. Not all responses are intelligence. It’s not about being smarter — it’s a design problem, and it’s easier than you think.
Pivot Center™Leadership in the Age of Acceleration.
What does a spinning gyroscope have to do with surviving the most turbulent business climate in decades? This session reframes the instinct to pivot so you can lead with clarity.
The Influence Audit™Spend Your Influence Where It Counts.
Influence is an asset. But every leader operates with finite time and capital — and sometimes spends influence in the wrong places. It’s not just inefficient. It’s exhausting. Redirect influence with intention and protect it like the asset it is.
The Future of AI Is Human
Why the most valuable leadership skills of the next decade aren’t technical — they’re creative, innovative, and deeply human.
TED Talk — 2M+ views
“My Story of Love and Loss as a Transracial Adoptee”
One of Sara’s most personal talks — and a demonstration of the storytelling, vulnerability, and narrative precision she brings to every stage. The talk has reached over two million viewers worldwide and shows how Sara commands an audience and moves them to think differently.
How Sara Shows Up
Designed around your room — not pulled off a shelf.
From a 30-minute opening keynote to a half-day strategic facilitation, Sara matches the format to the audience, the moment, and the outcome you’re after.
Keynote
30 to 60 minutes designed to set a tone, anchor a theme, or open and close an event with momentum.
Fireside or Interview
Curated conversation with a moderator or executive partner — ideal for board-level audiences and intimate forums where dialogue matters more than monologue.
Panel Moderation
Sara also moderates — bringing strategic synthesis, sharp questions, and audience engagement to multi-speaker formats.
Workshop or Half-Day
Frameworks delivered with hands-on application. Leadership teams leave with something they built together, not just something they heard.
Where Sara has been most recently.
TED (2M+ views) · Harvard Business School · NPR · Jeonju, South Korea · Silicon Slopes · University of Utah · Westminster University · DisruptHR
Get your audience the talk they actually need.
Tell us about your event — the audience, the stakes, the outcome you’re after. We’ll design the play together.
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