Leadership for a Thinking Environment

Dr. Hart earned her PH.D. from Northwestern University and then taught at Queens College in New York City before joining Pfizer Inc.  During her 20 years at Pfizer, she was responsible for a wide range of HR activities, including building and managing the learning and development function for the research division in the US, helping to develop strategy for process redesign, and launching the change with the organization.  She also was the head of HR at Pfizer's research center in the UK.  Subsequently, Sara served as the Executive Director of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, Palo Alto, CA.

Sara is the founder and President of Hartcom, a consulting company, which specializes in building effective groups, developing supervisory and leadership excellence, enhancing presentation skills, and maximizing employee effectiveness.  In some of her work, Sara focuses on the importance of developing a Thinking Environment(tm) in which each of us can do our most creative and brilliant thinking.  Sara also is actively engaged in her Sign of Enough(tm) campaign, which asks all of us to consider the question "How will I know when I have enough?"

Dr. Hart is a certified coach from the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, HeartMath, Inc., and from the world renowned Time to Think, Inc.  She is an experienced consultant to organizations and professional speaker.