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Sarah Hill
Sarah brings ROI clients nearly a decade of experience in organizational planning and change management environments, both in global corporations and smaller fast-paced start-ups. After many years in executive-level support positions, she understands the challenges company leaders face, and can offer insights as a coach and key collaborator for executive managers. Most recently, she has served as chief of staff and executive coach to Hewlett Packard’s Vice President of Global Social Investment.
Sarah specializes in helping executives navigate through times of transition and change, and is adept at conflict management. She has provided key support during the integration of staff following acquisitions and mergers, the development and implementation of new policies and procedures, as well as training, staff development and event planning.
From helping executives articulate their strategic vision to executing it successfully day-to-day, Sarah focuses on ensuring the growth and sustainability of organizations over the long term. Some of her specific experience includes:
- leading negotiation efforts to standardize intra-organization best practices to secure competitive pricing from shared vendors
- creating a five-year strategic business plan for the events arm of a private company to drive growth and increase profitability
- directing events and in-house management responsibilities for both public and private events averaging 500-700 attendees
- coordinating regional and quarterly executive road shows to address employee concerns and questions.
- developing adaptable training programs
- creating a detailed user’s guide and staff training for new systems
- collaboratively upgrading content of conference training programs and collateral
- co-presenting training program at a sustainability conference for more than 200 attendees in San Francisco
- overseeing deployment and utilization of more than 50 consultants working on concurrent projects
- managing the entire life-cycle of major conference programs, from RFPs to post-conference support
- creating and maintaining operational and financial reports
Prior to her recent work at HP, Sarah has worked for Broadlane, a leading technology-oriented healthcare services company, and for Predictive Systems, a networking specialization firm assisting Fortune 500 companies. Before joining ROI, she worked as an independent change management consultant.
Sarah received her bachelor’s degree in Modern Literary Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz.