Testimonials

Working with Sara has given me the solid ground I’ve needed in my career [that] I have always craved. She is an exceptional sounding board, a wise and empathetic coach, and just a frankly effective partner who is wise, experienced, and kind. I’ve referred her to many and hope many more can benefit from her support and guidance. 

Mona K., Social Entrepreneurship Instructor

Undoubtedly, one of Sara's greatest superpowers is helping people to identify their strengths and build upon those foundations. The depth of Sara's wisdom and knowledge is fueled by her extensive experience in a variety of roles, across multiple sectors. This experience, coupled with her genuine desire to help people grow, makes her an incredible coach and mentor. I always walk away from our conversations with a few pages of notes and a lot of motivation.

Lindsey M., Product Manager

I sought out Sara after I moved from a law firm role to a senior in-house role with management responsibilities. After a couple years in the new role, I wanted to strengthen my executive and management skills and needed help thinking about my job and career path more strategically. Sara has offered insights and ideas that are directly relevant to my in-house legal role. She has helped me navigate conflict and has offered the accountability that I needed to set some medium-term goals and see them through. 

Jill S., Attorney

Sara helped me unpack my work experience and identify what's important to me in my work at this stage of my life. Sara's coaching guided me toward just what I was after: a position that utilized my skills in a new space in a new way, with great opportunity for growth, with people I genuinely enjoy working with. 

Dawn P, Editorial Director

Sara picked me up at a low point in my job search, when I felt I had tried everything and had simply missed my window to transition to the next stage of my career. She understood my professional and personal challenges well, and so was able to give me insight into how to triage my strategy. When you know as an academic matter that there's always more you could do, it's easy to talk yourself out of doing any of it because you believe the payoff is limited. Sara was great at not only at helping me focus on my strengths, but also at identifying where I shouldn't expend more energy - for example, because my discomfort with the exercise would have sapped my confidence. Her coaching helped me to excel in interviews, even without realizing it, because I was prepared with a deep knowledge of what I have to offer and how to present myself authentically. What I expected to be a six-month job search ended in three weeks with an offer from my dream job. I admit I was skeptical when Sara first told me that my situation was not hopeless, but I'm glad I trusted her process.

Jenny K., Attorney

Sara was crucial in empowering and supporting me to take initiative in identifying my strengths and interests in order to develop my own professional development and career journey. She possesses a winning combination of solid technical and legal skills, business sense, problem solving and coaching expertise. As a young first-gen LGBTQ+ Latinx professional, I learned a great deal from Sara about how to navigate intersectional career challenges, information barriers, and how to build networks within my organization at different intervals in my professional journey. I always walk away from our conversations feeling empowered, motivated and ready to to convert my learnings into action. Sara is an amazing mentor and any individual or organization would benefit greatly from working with, learning from and her solution-oriented thoughtful contributions.

Lesley Q., Project Coordinator

Anyone who gets the chance to work with Sara is better off for it. I worked with Sara as her direct report at an education non-profit, Quill.

During that time Sara was instrumental in cultivating a strong company culture. She initiated company retreats, all-hands meetings, values, growth pathways, hiring framework, and an extensive benefits package. For all of these initiatives, she worked with the team by gathering feedback to make sure our company culture reflected the overall organization.

In our one-on-one meetings, you could tell Sara truly cared about me and the other co-workers she managed. She helped me to develop and maintain a career growth pathway that I use to this day. Sara helped me become a kinder and more communicative person to my team.

Tom C., Lead Product Designer

I wholeheartedly recommend working with Sara. She wore many hats during her time as the COO at Quill.org, due to its nature as a small start-up, and excelled equally at all of them, from product strategy and process building to individual career coaching and mentorship. She displayed a great deal of flexibility, resilience, and emotional intelligence during her time there, with a strong focus on ensuring both the happiness and continued growth of the members of the team, but one of her most standout qualities is her ability to balance both the short and longterm needs of the company.

While attending to her myriad day to day responsibilities, she also managed to put in place processes and frameworks that will allow the company to thrive long after her departure. Having a background in so many different areas, from being a practicing attorney to a project manager to a COO, affords her an invaluable perspective on the many different needs of individuals and organizations, and she is able to synthesize those needs and come up with strategies that address both the parts and the whole. She changed our company permanently for the better, and I'm confident that she will do the same for organizations and people that are lucky enough to work with her in the future.

Emilia F., Software Engineer

Sara taught me how to navigate our organization and offered an attentive ear whenever I needed to voice my concerns. Sara is as warm and emotionally intelligent as she is strategic and thorough. She is able to examine the larger needs of an organization or company and communicate them to members a varying levels of authority and decision-making power. When one works with Sara he/she/they is/are always informed of both proposed and confirmed organizational changes in a manner that is suitable to his/her/their communication style. Sara is an asset to any organization or company that she advises, and connects strongly with personnel who need guidance.

Maximillian D., Curriculum Developer