Team

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Since she can recall, Sara has loved a good challenge (running marathons, public speaking, opera music performance) which might explain her fascination and zeal for taking on some of the gnarliest and behemoth-like business change initiatives around.  She is known to be pragmatic, results-oriented and down-to-earth (maybe it’s her Midwestern roots).  Sara is recognized for her work in transforming business culture and building differentiated brand experiences in global 500 companies.  You will find she’s in her element when she’s interacting with people whether it’s sitting with a client one on one coaching them on a sticky situation or delivering a keynote speech to 1,000 people.

Prior to founding Roberts Golden, Sara held senior consulting positions within companies including Sprint, Andersen Consulting and Ketchum. A few years back, she co-authored the best-selling book, "Light Their Fire: Using lnternal Marketing to Ignite Employee Performance and Wow Your Customers" and is a frequent keynote speaker at industry leading events on the topics of culture change, employee engagement and enterprise social networking.  She is a member of the Enterprise 2.0 Advisory Board and consults and presents workshops on collaboration in the workplace.  Sara received her M.S. in Instructional Technology from the University of Nebraska and she continues her executive education at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.  She is grateful to have so many clients and team members that she calls friends.

Senior Vice President & Principal Consultant

Lisa is a change agent who is committed to working differently and fearlessly to help organizations solve complex business problems. She is an architect and designer of the new workplace, leveraging the newest technology, ideas, and innovation to connect and evoke sustainable behavior.

Lisa’s special powers are her ravenous energy and remarkable authenticity. She stretches across generations, skillfully coaching the C-suite on social media and emerging trends as well as rallying millennials to drive collaboration and engagement.

Prior to Roberts Golden, Lisa was the Assistant Vice President of Contemporary Work Practices at The Hartford. Initiatives included implementing social media/collaboration tools, expanding flexible work/remote work arrangements, promoting cross-generational social media/technology learning through the Reverse Mentor Program and leading the Employee Resource Groups to attract and cultivate diverse talent.

With over 20 years of business experience, Lisa is a seasoned professional who has had diverse experiences, including COO of a niche software company, directing a physician hospital organization, and leading sales and marketing in health care and biotech environments.

Lisa holds a Bachelors of Arts from Wellesley College in molecular biology. Lisa models the way for work/life balance, as she is also the proud mother of very active 14 year-old twin boys. She has a passion for sports, cooking, and entertaining.

Principal Consultant & Practice Leader

Jenny has been compared to a mind reader for her insightfulness, Mr. Spock for her rationality, and described as having “a way” with people by her clients (they really said these things, you can’t make this stuff up). You could say that her work as a Consultant has been greatly influenced by her work as a Life Coach and Yoga Teacher. You might find Jenny working out issues for Fortune 50 organizations to local school districts while on her yoga mat, but don’t let her sweet demeanor deceive you, her ability to face tough situations and be professional, shows up in one to one sessions and in the executive boardroom. Jenny has several years of corporate experience, her last being with Lowe’s where she managed the Leadership Development & Coaching Programs, the Succession Management Program, and New Leader On-boarding. Her breadth of consulting experience includes enterprise wide system implementations, change management, and the execution of talent management strategy. Jenny holds her BBA from Ohio University, a Master’s in Org. Development from Bowling Green, and an Integral Coach Certification through New Ventures West.

Principal Consultant

Julie brings to our team a vast array of experience from her 15+ years spent helping companies successfully transform their business. From start-ups to Fortune 50 companies, from oil refineries to nursing homes to investment banks, and from mergers and spin-offs to technology implementations, her experience working across a variety of industries and with all levels in organizations enables her to provide significant insight and value to her clients. Although she is not able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, she is masterful at managing large, complex change programs, at aligning leaders and employees with business strategy and at developing creative ways of helping companies and their employees through major transformations, from the break room to the boardroom. Prior to Roberts Golden, Julie was a Managing Consultant at Towers Perrin (now Towers Watson) and also held in-house consulting positions at California State Automobile Association, Kaiser Permanente and Pitney Bowes. She received her MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Principal Consultant

Having been a French major in college, Pam looks at learning both organizational and tech-speak as adopting another new language.  Her skills are continually being honed thanks to her two pre-teen and teenage children who infinitely teach her new forms of language as well as the need for creative approaches to motivational and communications challenges.  With a career of helping launch new products and making the complex more simple and digestible, Pam brings a creative marketing bent to each new situation. Always trying to eke out a 25^th hour in each day, she thrives on multi-tasking and high energy situations.

Most recently, Pam served as the Executive Vice President of Marketing at Teleperformance, the world’s largest call center outsourcer.  Previously, she held the role of the VP of Marketing for LiveOps, a pioneer in providing virtual work, as well as for Metreo, Inc., a leading supplier of pricing software, which was acquired by Symphony Technology Group and for Arcot Systems, Inc., a provider of authentication security solutions. Pam was a Partner at Regis McKenna, Inc/The McKenna Group for ten years. While there, she led the teams responsible for defining e-business for IBM, creating the first online travel solutions for United, USAirways, British Airways and Galileo, launching several successful start-ups and taking companies such as Rightpoint and Eloquent through successful acquisitions. Prior to McKenna, she was the Vice President at Prognostics, a leading market research/consulting firm that was acquired by NFO. Pam holds a B.A. degree in French magna cum laude from Harvard and a MBA from Harvard Business School as well as having attended the University of Paris–Sorbonne.