Team

President & Chief Executive Officer

Since she can recall, Sara has loved a good challenge (running marathons, public speaking, abstaining from a daily chocolate croissant) 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).  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 presenting 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 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.

VP of Consulting Services / Atlanta Office Director

Tyler’s passion for change and leadership was inspired by his time as an officer in the U.S. Army helping to turn Bosnia-Herzegovina from a warring country to a peaceful, democratic nation in ten months – he knows what it takes to make change happen in the real world under the most demanding circumstances. Prior to joining Roberts Golden Consulting, Tyler worked at Stromberg Consulting, the change management consultancy of Ketchum Public Relations, where he led their North American consulting practice. He also co-founded and launched an antiques business and spent several years at Deloitte Consulting with a focus on leading change and communications for global mergers and acquisitions. One of Tyler's key passions and areas of expertise is helping Fortune 500 companies to build capability and adoption for enterprise social networking tools.  He frequently speaks and blogs on the topic. Tyler received his MBA from Vanderbilt University and graduated cum laude with a BA in History from Wake Forest University.

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.

Senior Consultant

Maya is a genuine people person and a veritable talent magnet (and not just on the dance floor). With over ten years' experience in learning and development, change management, organizational development and team dynamics, she is a human resource master (not to mention a party planner to rival Martha Stewart). Maya holds a BA in Anthropology from UCLA and a Masters in Social Work from Boston University. She has lived and worked abroad and is fascinated by people and cultures. Her approach is unique and innovative with healthy measures of fun and “get ‘er done.” Clients covet her keen ability to connect the dots and get results quickly. She has done a variety of projects from conducting needs assessments and gap analyses to designing long-term learning and development strategies and providing human resource expertise on core business process change. She has worked with Gap Inc., Gap Outlet, Old Navy, Jamba Juice, Safeway, McKesson, Deloitte, The Medical Foundation and more. When she's not working, she spends her time actively reveling in the Bay Area, sometimes chasing the mobile cupcake truck and Baby Jacob.

Senior Consultant

Not only has Jon’s ability to guide change across functions and geographies made him very popular with his clients, it’s helped him learn to say hello in over 7 languages. From mission development and organization design to business process improvement and change implementation, Jon excels at helping his clients improve their organization effectiveness to achieve business results.    A critical contributor to the Roberts Golden team, Jon has served in both external consulting (Watson Wyatt, Accenture) and internal (Levi Strauss & Company) leadership roles and most recently has consulted to Chevron Corporation and Safeway. Jon received a B.A. in social psychology from Cornell University and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Senior Consultant

Anke’s unique blend of analytical thinking and a down-to-earth/bottom-line approach has “wow!-ed” many of her clients (as well as her kids and husband, proven by a well- organized family life). She has added value to her clients across industries through either designing the content of change initiatives – such as reorganizations, process redesigns, and other business transformations – or through managing and facilitating the ”people aspects” of such change processes. As a former HR executive at Bertelsmann and a senior management consultant at Towers Perrin she helped internal and external clients on three continents optimize their strategic HR programs as well as assess and manage the impact of change events. Anke received an M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business, and an M.A. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University Darmstadt, Germany. She is fluent in English and German and conversant in Spanish.