Sara Sadek

Writer

Advisor

Community Builder

Sara (she/her) is a writer and strategic advisor focused on this central question: how does reconnecting to ourselves, each other, and our planet pave the pathway to our collective liberation?

Sara writes weekly at Folkweaver, where she examines that central question of reconnection through narrative nonfiction essays, and is working on a Young Adult Fantasy as well as several nonfiction book proposals. You can find her work published in Motherly Magazine, Mutha Magazine, and HTH Unboxed.

Sara is the founder of Attuned Advising, a boutique strategic advising consultancy, where she supports cross-industry founders and leaders through coaching and thought partnership from a relational leadership framework. Sara loves supporting visionary leaders and teams looking to create thriving organizations that center care.

Sara served as Senior Advisor to Fenway Strategies—the premier speechwriting company founded by Obama’s former speechwriters—on all things social justice. Prior to leading her own consultancy, Sara helped scale nonprofits like Girls Who Code and Teach For All in their early days. In her community building, Sara’s co-founded a cooperative forest school, led various parenting communities, and serves on the Pedagogy Committee at Brightworks School. Sara started her career as a Teach For America corps member, teaching 5th grade in West Harlem, and still loves geeking out on middle grade and young adult stories.

She is first and foremost an insatiable learner, forever connecting dots across disciplines to weave together the world she wants to live in. When she’s not deep in a work flow, Sara might be voraciously reading, making sand angels or driftwood forts on the Norcal beaches with her kiddos, building countercultural community spaces, or learning all the tools she can to design, create, make, and express in many forms.

She is an Egyptian-American immigrant living in the unceded Ohlone land known as San Francisco with her partner, two kids, and their ridiculously cute dog.

Sara’s writing is a vehicle to radically reimagine connection as our primary pathway to collective thriving. She writes weekly narrative nonfiction essays on her Substack, Folkweaver. She’s working on a Young Adult fantasy manuscript and several nonfiction book proposals, and is currently seeking an aligned agent to partner with. You can find Sara’s essays published in Motherly Magazine and Mutha Magazine.

When she’s not working on her own projects, Sara strategically advises founders,leaders and teams on telling their stories. She supports folks in thinking through how to best position their work in the world from a lens of liberation and care.

Writing

Strategic Advising

Sara coaches and thought partners with visionary founders and leaders to support them in creating healthy, thriving teams through her consultancy Attuned Advising. She offers:

  • Relational executive & leadership coaching

  • Co-founder and leadership team coaching

  • Strategic advising

  • Storytelling & positioning

Sara’s spent the last decade supporting cross-industry founders and executives in tech, politics, education and nonprofit spaces. Her superpower is her deeply human, relational, and care-centered approach, which she brings to everything she touches. She served as Senior Advisor to Fenway Strategies for four years, a speechwriting company started by Obama’s former speechwriters.

Sara practices an multi-modal, embodied, relational coaching framework that supports leaders and their team members thrive together.

As a BIPOC neuroqueer first-generation immigrant steeped in care-centered consulting, Sara actively practices working with folks through a neuroaffirming, nonjudgemental, inclusive, care-centered lens.

Community Building

Facilitating and supporting communities that radically reimagine our relationship with young people, each other, and the earth is at the heart of Sara’s praxis and the way she gives back to her communities.

Sara has over a decade of experience in this work. She’s co-founded a cooperative forest preschool, facilitated mothers’ circles, postpartum parenting in COVID circles, moon gathering circles, and parenting circles in various forms to support parents in doing the inner work that helps them radically reshape their relationships with their children.

She currently facilitates inner child meditation circles in collaboration with Emily Smith, which you can learn more about here.

She supports community builders through 1:1 coaching and strategic advising.

Sara unapologetically and unequivocally stands up for and speaks out in solidarity with Black liberation, LGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive justice rights, indigenous justice, Palestinian justice, sovereignty & freedom, immigrant rights, disability justice, and more broadly, with every historically oppressed people in our collective quest for co-liberation.