Sarah Bennett
Founder and Principal
Sarah has been consulting since 2017, providing organizational growth and organizational development support for dozens mission-based clients based across the country, with a focus on recruiting and hiring projects. In her time as a consultant, Sarah is especially proud to have partnered with clients to help fill 120 open positions on their teams in addition to training dozens of nonprofit staff through her one-on-one coaching and Rooted Edge's management trainings series! Sarah has also led projects with clients focused on designing onboarding programs; launching new initiatives; career coaching for organizations; and more. Sarah also serves as Rooted Edge Consulting's career coach for individuals, a new service which was launched in January 2024.
Prior to becoming a consultant, Sarah was the Hiring and Training Director at Corporate Accountability International, where she oversaw all hiring, designed the organization's onboarding program, designed and ran a training program for managers, supported the design and facilitation of internal trainings across all departments, and also refined and coordinated the organization's performance review process. At U.S. PIRG, Sarah managed teams of organizers for years, working in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington State, Colorado, and Washington, D.C. on environmental, consumer protections, and democracy campaigns. She also served as the National Recruitment Director for U.S. PIRG for 5 years.
Sarah has Transformational DEI Certificate from the Boston Chamber of Commerce and Diversity @Workplace Consulting Group and a B.A, in Environmental Studies from Trinity College , CT. She lives outside of Boston with her husband, their energetic and awesome 11 year old son, and their pets, Dusty, Plum, and Taco.