Speaker Profile

Sara Blenkhorn

Chief Sustainability Officer

Leverage Lab

As the Chief Sustainability Officer at Leverage Lab, Sara helps companies to identify and make impact towards social and environmental sustainability. She is a talented facilitator who brings an authentic and transparent approach to creating change towards a sustainable future. With a Master’s Degree in strategic leadership towards sustainability, strong values and years of experimentation, Sara brings to her clients many different disciplines and schools of thought including Social Innovation, Social Innovation Labs, Systems Thinking, Network Theory, Human-Centered Design, Open-Source, Lean Startups, Collective Impact, Theory U, Adult Development Theory, just to name a few. Her passion for engaging people paired with her love for travel has gifted her with a vast network and an uncanny ability to know who to connect to and when; finding ways of working across silos and building collaborations that are in service to a wider agenda. Over the last five years Sara has had the pleasure of working with RADIUS SFU, Sitka, H&M, Lululemon, Intact Insurance, Intuit, Salt Spring Coffee, Novex, Frogbox, UBC, Fairware, Save On Meats, Mills Basic, UNBC, Hatfield Engineering, Recycling Alternative, Surf Rider Foundation, Social Innovation Generation (SIG), Tall Grass, The City of Vancouver, Metro Vancouver, The Vancouver Economic Commission and Hootsuite.

Sara Blenkhorn's Sessions