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Sarah K. Kiernan
Sarah K. Kiernan

People strategy that moves your business forward:

âž¡ Leadership Development

Develop emerging talent into exceptional managers, directors and VPs. Strengthen existing leaders and build practical leadership expectations and habits that improve performance across the organization.

âž¡ Culture + Performance

Translate mission and values into leadership behaviors, accountability, performance expectations and an employee experience that drives results.

âž¡ Executive and Critical Talent

Leadership assessment and recruiting for the people who can move the business forward.

âž¡ People Infrastructure

Practical systems, policies and rhythms that support growth without unnecessary bureaucracy.

âž¡ Transformation + Change

Leadership through restructures, rapid growth, difficult decisions and major business transitions.

âž¡ Organizational Design & Scale

Structure, layers, roles and accountability built for the next stage of growth.

I am especially passionate about the layer where culture becomes real:

managers and directors. 

I help high-potential talent become confident, accountable leaders who can build teams, give feedback, make decisions, and carry the business forward.

I am most useful at an inflection point:

âž¡ Growth is accelerating
âž¡ The organization has outgrown its structure
âž¡ Leadership needs to level up

or the business needs senior People expertise without another full-time executive

My career has been spent inside high-touch brands
where the employee experience and customer experience are inseparable.

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Led through COVID and rapid growth, while building a talent base and the systems required for scale.

Grew:

55 âž¡ 100 studios
400 âž¡ 1400 employees

Supported a defining expansion period with focus on developing and supporting talent at scale.

Grew:

14 âž¡ 97 studios

Managed:

350 instructors

Led People strategy including talent, leadership development, and organizational redesign through a major restructure. Operated the largest OTF franchise group in the network.

Operated:

125 locations
1600 employees
13 states

I know what it feels like when growth gets messy, the org chart stops working, hiring has to accelerate, leaders need more support, or the company has to make hard decisions without losing trust. I bring pattern recognition, judgment and action.

Ways to work together:

  • Ongoing executive People leadership for businesses that need senior capability without a full-time CPO or executive. A people leader who thinks like an operator.

  • Experienced, steady coverage when a CPO, CHRO, Head of People or other senior People leader is on parental, medical or other extended leave - or while the business searches for its next permanent leader. I step in quickly, maintain momentum and give the team and executive leadership continuity.

  • Targeted development for emerging and existing managers and directors, including coaching, manager capability, performance conversations, accountability and building a stronger leadership bench.

  • A trusted thought partner to founders, CEOs and leadership teams on organization, talent, leadership and change.

  • Focused support for restructures, organizational redesign, People-function buildouts, leadership assessment or rapid scaling. Aligning company policies and procedures to company values and mission.

Every engagement is built around the business problem, not a predetermined HR package.

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Sarah K. Kiernan
Fractional CPO & Executive Advisor

sarah@sarahkkiernan.com
Linkedin.com/in/sarahkkiernan