Professional Overview

Career

Connecting people, ideas, and growth

The short version

How I work

I'm a connector who gets things done with warmth and rigor — the person people rely on when ambiguity needs someone to ask the question that unlocks insights. I started in newsrooms, learning to find the story inside the noise, then moved into finance at Fidelity, where that instinct became strategy, data, and enterprise decision-making.

Today, I sit at the intersection of both. I build the structure that moves ambiguous, high-stakes work forward, and I tell the story that gets leadership aligned.

Skills

The shape of the work

Program leadership

Building the operating structure that turns ambiguous, high-stakes work into something a team can actually run.

Story-driven analysis

Pulling the through-line out of messy data so decisions rest on a clear narrative, not just numbers.

Relationship building

Trust-first collaboration that gets teammates aligned and stakeholders leaning in.

Structural thinking

Designing the governance, cadence, and hand-offs a cross-functional program needs to move.

Accomplishments

A short list of greatest hits

  • Product launch
    Launched Fidelity's inaugural subscription trading program.

    Led the analytics strategy end to end, from customer behavior insight to launch decision, and drove 200% user engagement growth in the first three months.

  • Business impact
    Built a client attrition model that changed how the business intervened.

    Scored risk across 750+ client relationships so sales teams could act before renewal conversations turned into RFPs, contributing to $33M in incremental market share.

  • Executive leadership
    Served as Associate Chief of Staff to an L2 executive.

    Built the governance structures and operating rhythms that gave an ambiguous, cross-functional mandate a working system.

  • Community building
    Pioneered PBS's virtual local community model.

    Onboarded volunteer leaders across 20+ markets and designed the peer programming that kept them engaged with each other, not just with headquarters.

  • Founder
    Founded Friendship 101.

    A presentation and workshop addressing adult friendship, built independently from concept through launch.

Testimonial

People who'd vouch

“Sarah is a true professional and joy to be around. She is strategy-minded, has a positive attitude, and exceptional work ethic. Her ability to see the through-line and connect quickly with teammates makes her an asset to any organization.”

Jen Griffiths · VP, Fidelity

The longer version

Find me on LinkedIn

For the chronological record and the endorsements.