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.
Experience spanning diplomacy, policy, leadership, and systems change.
Former U.S. Special Advisor on International Disability Rights.
Led a U.S. delegation bringing disability into one of the world’s most consequential international forums.
Works with senior leaders and executive teams navigating trust, transformation, decision-making, and organizational complexity.
Different challenges require different solutions.
IN THE DARK®
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.
SARA MINKARA ADVISORY
Disability isn’t a side conversation. It’s a lens into how organizations design, decide, innovate, manage risk, and create value.
COACHING
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.
SPEAKING
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.
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.
Now, she wants to do it for you .
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.”
“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.”
“Sara is an incredible and captivating storyteller who provided the space for others to show up as themselves while learning from other experiences.”
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
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.
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.
