SARA MINKARA
Speaking
Engagements
Engagements
Your Team’s Next Breakthrough Moment Starts Here
Sara’s dynamic speaking engagements are focused within five key areas, stemming from expertise gained throughout her career and personal life: Authentic leadership, Transformational change, Reimagining the Future of Work, Diplomatic Lessons, and Incorporating Disability Perspectives. She can address each topic in a variety of formats, from keynote speeches to immersive workshops to team-based coaching sessions. Every session Sara leads is customized to your organization’s goals and needs – allowing for a truly unique experience and result unlike any other offering in the market.
AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP AS A GROWTH STRATEGY:
Your audience will leave with:
Proven strategies for exercising leadership through curiosity, vulnerability, and authentic connections
A concrete sense of the connection between authentic leadership, establishing a culture of openness and trust, and the subsequent free flowing of ideas and innovation.
Practical strategies and playbooks for carrying authentic leadership forward in their daily lives.
HOW WE HELPED CHANGED THE STATE DEPARTMENT:
Your audience will leave with:
A clear lens to distinguish between quick fixes and the hard work of adaptive solutions – and the courage to ask the hard questions about whether a proposed solution is actually addressing the problem or just treating symptoms.
Concrete strategies for leading adaptive work – how you can work across large, bureaucratic organizations to make space for difficult conversations, create expectations for shared responsibility, and build capacity for taking the real hard work forward.
Lessons from the inside – based on real work at the U.S. State Department, this session offers tested insights on shifting institutional culture, navigating resistance.
REIMAGINING THE FUTURE OF WORK AND TECHNOLOGY:
Your audience will leave with:
A compelling vision of how the disability perspective fuels innovation and drives the future of AI, technology, and the workforce at every stage—from design and implementation to evaluation and beyond.
A clear understanding of the concrete economic and societal gains realized when all stakeholders are embedded into every facet of technology and workforce development.
Actionable insights on how prioritizing the disability lens in reskilling and upskilling initiatives leads to stronger, more resilient, and future-ready organizations and societies.
A strategic perspective on building inclusive technologies and policies that inherently enhance outcomes for all, ensuring no perspective is overlooked.
LESSONS FROM A DIPLOMAT:
Your audience will leave with:
Practical tools and strategies to build unlikely coalitions, bridge divides and establish common ground to advocate for issues and solutions that aren’t on the radar of your key stakeholders.
Powerful stories from Sara’s lived experience and diplomatic career, including how she got global leaders to prioritize disability inclusion at forums where it had never been discussed before.
An understanding of the value of disability policy and its implications for everyone — not just the world’s largest minority.
Actionable insights on allyship, advocacy, and why the inclusion of people with disabilities strengthens outcomes for everyone.
Your audience will leave with:
Actionable frameworks for integrating disability perspectives into policymaking, program design, and international negotiations, ensuring more resilient, innovative, and human-centered solutions across sectors.
Real-world insights from Sara’s groundbreaking work in disability mainstreaming, including how she elevated disability rights in high-level global dialogues on trade, climate, security, and technology – even when it wasn’t on the agenda.
A reimagined understanding of disability policy — not as a niche issue, but as a value-driver that strengthens governance, expands market access, and unlocks new dimensions of innovation.
Tangible ways to be an effective ally and why including disabled voices in all conversations strengthens outcomes for everyone.
Some of the organizations who have benefited from In the Dark and Sara’s speaking engagements:
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