Sarah collaborates with individuals, groups and organizations to achieve:1) purposeful meeting design and facilitation for meetings and convening of most any kind. Her first-hand experiences inform deep expertise to the planning and delivery of engaged, action-oriented workplace meetings (staff, executive teams, cross-functional projects), training sessions, town hall meetings, community engagement forums, leadership retreats and more.2) continuous improvement. Sarah's experience with different sectors, challenges and group compositions is lengthy. She is LEAN trained with multiple certifications and applies this approach to improving group effectiveness and tangible outcomes. She is particularly for her "re-set" approach. For example, increasing nonprofit board effectiveness; problem-solving work group toxicity. 3) acceleration of aspirations and goals through coaching. Sarah has coached literal hundreds of people on matters of career and/or leadership acceleration in non-profit sectors. She credits her prior clinical training, in combination with certification as an "executive" coach in 2016, as reasons why her clients establish achievable goals and move beyond those to stretch farther, as they build capacity to do so. 4) revitalization and improvement of employee training programs. While Sarah has helped many organizations establish/deepen training, re-calibrate a leadership program, or "fix" training that has fallen short of expectations. With 30+ yrs in training/development, she knows the essential questions, artifacts and people that engage solutions.Sarah intentionally crafted her own career path broadly as an employee in community nonprofit agencies, health care, K-12, manufacturing companies with union workforces and higher education. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Vanderbilt University's Peabody College (education, psychology & sociology) and an MSW from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor (group and complex organizational systems).

Lead facilitator for Plant Operations' strategic alignment of its training programs to strategy and related task-competency profiles for 1100+ employees (professionals, administrative and bargained-for members). Designed and facilitated two, 5-year strategic plans using Balanced Scorecard approach. As training director, responsible for relevant design and expedient delivery of three, local certificate programs required of supervisors, managers and field professionals. Researched, designed, developed and staffed the nationally award-winning University of Michigan Facilities Professional Certificate Program. Chief consultant to cross-functional committees for annual planning, team development and effectiveness. Founding co-sponsor for in-house Lean facilitation & training and sponsor of the Women in Plant network.

Assisted hundreds of university faculty, graduate students and community professionals in career problem solving, advancement strategies and career decision making. Designed and delivered seminars and workshops for center outreach, for university departments on request, annual conferences and American Council on Education (ACE- Michigan - Women's Network). Developed U-M Advanced Leadership Series for U-M staff women encompassing health system, athletics, and academic campus.

Train-the-trainer curriculum design and delivery for K-12 student assistance programs supported by federal and state grants or offered publicly to school systems and education professionals in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. Primary area of focus included group facilitator skills training for school guidance counselors, teachers and social service providers to school-aged youth. Taught elements of strategic planning process to school administrators and school boards.

Representing Ford Motor Company alongside a UAW counterpart, the joint UAW-Ford initiative focused on front line problems solving, quality teams skills development and training, continuing education of supervisors with emphasis on quality tools, and ongoing organizational communication services delivered plant-wide. Sole designer for the training of a second shift workforce comprised of over 800 hourly and salaried new hires. From March 1986 to September 1987, represented the University of Michigan in the role of a Life/Education Advisor to hourly UAW-members to promote and broker lifelong learning.