Sara
Minkara

Sara has spent a lifetime noticing what others overlook.

And she works with leaders to do the same: question assumptions, uncover hidden perspectives, and see more clearly what could be possible.

BRING SARA TO YOUR ORGANIZATION

70+ COUNTRIES

Experience spanning diplomacy, policy, leadership, and systems change.

U.S. SPECIAL ADVISOR

Former U.S. Special Advisor on International Disability Rights.

G7 DELEGATION LEAD

Led a U.S. delegation bringing disability into one of the world’s most consequential international forums.

C-SUITE EXPERIENCE

Works with senior leaders and executive teams navigating trust, transformation, decision-making, and organizational complexity.

WAYS TO WORK WITH SARA

Different challenges require different solutions.

In the Dark®

Change what happens in the room.

What happens when you remove the cues leaders unconsciously rely on? In the Dark is Sara’s signature immersive, blindfolded methodology designed to interrupt familiar dynamics and reveal what truly matters.

Explore In the Dark

Disability Strategy & Transformation

Change what happens in the system.

Disability isn’t a side conversation. It’s a lens into how organizations design, decide, innovate, manage risk, and create value.

Explore Disability Strategy

Executive and Strategic Advisory

Change how you show up.

The most consequential leadership moments rarely come with a playbook. Sara works privately with senior leaders navigating complexity, transition, high-stakes decisions, difficult conversations, and moments when how they lead matters as much as what they decide.

Explore Strategic Advisory

Speaking

Change the conversation.

Sara brings the perspective of a former U.S. diplomat, strategist, blind leader, and creator of In the Dark to audiences confronting some of today’s hardest questions about leadership, trust, AI, human potential, disability, and systemic change.

Explore Speaking

Meet Sara

Sara has led a U.S. Delegation to the G7 meetings, put disability policy on the agenda for foreign ministries and the U.S. Department of State, and used her In the Dark methodology to help C-Suite teams accelerate decision making through trust-building and authentic dialogue.

Through her independent advisory practice, she guides public- and private-sector leaders on embedding disability within strategy, risk, operations, and emerging domains.

She has also developed and is teaching the first-ever course on Disability and Diplomacy at Georgetown University, advancing a new academic and policy frontier and equipping future diplomats with the tools to advance disability in foreign policy.

Now, she wants to do it for you .

01 In the Dark Methodology A human-centered approach to trust, dialogue, and meaningful inclusion. ↗ 02 Speaking Engagements Bring a powerful perspective on leadership, disability, and global impact. ↗ 03 Sara Minkara Advisory Strategic guidance for organizations ready to create lasting change. ↗

WHEN TO BRING SARA IN

When the usual approach isn't enough.

When trust needs to be built, or rebuilt.
When leaders need greater clarity in a moment that matters.
When a consequential conversation isn’t moving forward.
When a leadership team is stuck in familiar dynamics.

Sara works with leaders and organizations at moments when seeing what others overlook can change what happens next.

Trusted by leaders at

U.S. Department of State
Harvard Kennedy School
MIT
Airbnb
Adobe
CBRE
Genpact
NOAA
Fortune
The Motley Fool

“It was a thoughtful and inspiring session. It felt safe, even when the questions were uncomfortable and disrupted our norms.”

CBRE

“Sara’s workshops are truly a transformative experience. Participating in Sara’s workshops has forever changed how I get to know others and facilitate meetings between groups who don’t know each other.”

Summit

“Sara is an incredible and captivating storyteller who provided the space for others to show up as themselves while learning from other experiences.”

Lead For America

What People Say

“The work that [Sara did] to create new and different cross-cutting connections for us in our foreign policy strengthens and elevates our foreign policy.”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken

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Curious Constructs is Sara’s weekly Substack exploring the assumptions, systems, and conversations shaping what we value, how we lead, and how we interact with one another.

For people who believe curiosity isn’t simply a personality trait.
It’s a way of seeing more.

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Change starts with a conversation.

Whether you’re rebuilding trust, bringing a leadership team together, preparing for a consequential moment, navigating transformation, or rethinking how your organization creates value, sometimes the first step is asking a different question and hearing a new perspective.

Sara Minkara