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.
WHEN TO BRING SARA IN
When the usual approach isn’t enough.
Trust
When trust needs to be built, or rebuilt.
Transformation
When people need to question the assumptions that got them here.
Clarity
When leaders need greater clarity in a moment that matters.
Movement
When a consequential conversation is not moving forward.
Dynamics
When a leadership team is stuck in familiar dynamics.
Possibility
When an organization senses there is more possibility in their people.
WAYS TO WORK WITH SARA
Different challenges require different solutions.
In the Dark®
Change what happens in the room. A facilitated methodology that removes familiar visual and status cues to transform how people listen, communicate, and engage.
Sara Minkara Advisory
Change what happens in the system. Embed disability into strategy, governance, capital allocation, and decision-making.
Leadership Advisory & Coaching
Change how you show up. A private, strategic thinking partnership for consequential decisions, relationships, rooms, and systems.
Speaking
Change the conversation. Customized keynotes and sessions that move audiences from insight to action.
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COUNTRIES
G7
U.S. DELEGATION LEAD
U.S. SPECIAL ADVISOR
AMBASSADOR-LEVEL DIPLOMATIC LEADERSHIP
C-SUITE
EXPERIENCE ADVISING SENIOR LEADERS
WHY SARA MINKARA
A different way of seeing. A deeper way of leading.
Sara Minkara is a former Ambassador-level U.S. diplomat, global strategist, board director, and trusted advisor to Fortune 500 executives, corporate boards, and senior government leaders navigating geopolitical complexity, growth, and change.
Her expertise spans geopolitical risk, global market strategy, artificial intelligence and technology governance, workforce and human capital strategy, stakeholder engagement, and disability inclusion. Appointed by President Biden as U.S. Special Advisor on International Disability Rights, Sara led U.S. foreign policy on disability across more than 70 countries and developed the Disability Foreign Policy Playbook.
She has built coalitions across ASEAN, APEC, NATO, the Munich Security Conference, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and led the U.S. Delegation to the inaugural G7 Inclusion and Disability Ministerial Meeting.
TRUSTED IN ROOMS WHERE THE STAKES ARE HIGH
“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
Question everything.
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