Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.Mary Anne Radmacher
Sarah is an experienced talent management leader with a track record of successes in helping organizations solve complex recruitment and retention challenges through integrated strategies for talent acquisition, performance management, rewards, and retention. She is an advocate of future-focused leadership strategy, succession planning, executive coaching, talent pipeline building, and data-driven decision making. Sarah has a passion for teaching HR and leadership best practices.
Expertise
Drawing on over 20 years of experience in sales, recruitment, HR, and talent management within large for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Throughout her career, she has demonstrated the ability to transform ideas into specific, goal-driven results in response to employees’ and clients’ greatest needs.
Sarah helps clients create successful workplace cultures by focusing on talent management, professional development, building strong team relationships, and sourcing talent regionally and nationally to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace. Through her leadership, organizations she has worked with have earned accreditations from CARF and the Joint Commission, certification from WELCOA, and listing among the Best Places to Work.
Former and current colleagues describe Sarah as action oriented, entrepreneurial, and adaptable. She is committed to servant leadership, developing and coaching employees to achieve high performance, and establishing a unified strategy to carry an organization’s vision forward. Her wide-ranging experience in finance, manufacturing, sales and marketing, IT/software, health care, insurance, legal services, nonprofits, engineering, materials management, project management, and HR gives her a diverse professional perspective.
Key Accomplishments
- Drove recruiting activity to boost employers’ reputations as leaders in their industries
- Achieved annual savings for one client of almost $300,000 through internal management and retention of pool and contingent staff
- Developed and managed the implementation of key metrics to measure the ROI from specific professional recruiting initiatives
Education
Sarah holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, and a Certificate in Human Resources from UW-Milwaukee. She is also a graduate of Marquette University’s Future Milwaukee leadership program.
Professional and Community Activities
Sarah is involved in numerous professional and charitable organizations in the greater metro area. She is also a regular blood donor. In her time away from MRA, she enjoys spending time with her young adult children and walking her boxer, Laila.