Hi, I'm Sara. I've spent 19 years helping leaders handle the complicated parts of managing people, and I've come to believe most of what we call "people problems" are actually system problems wearing human costumes.

My career has taken me through global companies and high-growth tech: Target, Cisco, AppDynamics, and DataRobot. I've partnered with executives and managers on performance management, employee relations, leadership development, and organizational change. I've led complex investigations, coached leaders through the kind of conversations they were dreading for months, supported large-scale reorganizations, and built the manager training programs that quietly hold a company together as it scales.

The throughline across all of it: when people problems pile up, it's almost never because the people are bad. It's because the system around them is unclear. Expectations weren't set. Feedback wasn't given. Hard conversations got pushed for so long that they turned into terminations that didn't need to happen. My work is about putting clarity and structure back into those moments, so leaders can make confident decisions, support their teams, and keep the business moving.

Over the past year I built that work into 40 AI agents across five Plays. Four of them, Performance, Coaching, Investigation, and Restructuring, give HR teams and fractional HR partners a senior partner in the room for their hardest cases. The fifth, The Small Business Play, is for the owner with 2 to 50 people who is the HR department, in any state, because most businesses will never have someone like me down the hall. The agents follow the exact steps I have taught managers for 19 years, and they run inside your own AI app. I still take the cases that need a person.

I live in Overland Park, Kansas. I'm a big believer in directness, warmth, and saying the thing out loud. If you're trying to build a company where people can do their best work, I'd love to talk