SPEAKER / AUTHOR / MINDSHIFT EXPERT

SARAH Deane

CEO and Founder of MEvolution, Inc.

 

ABOUT SARAH

Hailing from London, Sarah is an innovator in the science-based wellness space, bringing her A.I. and human behavior expertise to center stages + screens around the globe. Focused on a single question - What does it take for people to thrive? - her research and data have revealed the "holy grail to unlock human capacity + potential."

Sarah has been a featured speaker at conferences and events such as SXSW, HRWest, Gartner, America’s Women Leadership Conference, teaches highly rated courses centered on the power of personal energy at Stanford University Continuing Studies, and has contributed to many platforms including, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, Today.com, Reworked, HR.com, SHRM, Huffington Post, Thrive Global, CIO Magazine, Training Industry and more. She is a 3x Human Resources Today MVP winner in: Leadership, Analytics, and the What’s Next in HR categories, and recently authored The Wellness Formula based on her original research into what is needed to thrive. Sarah holds an MEng in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.

To her speaking engagements, whether it’s a podcast, conference, or company event, she brings the unique combination of extensive research, practical application, and experience design, making each event a motivating foundation from which attendees take away both actionable insights and inspired thoughts. And, with a good dose of her sarcastic sense of humor and no-nonsense attitude, you can trust Sarah to tell you how it is!

“Sarah is a dynamic speaker and an authority on leadership development. She brings a unique approach by fusing psychology, really deep questioning and AI to fast track positive behavioral change in yourself.”

Tanal Basma, Women’s Leadership Event Attendee

Past Experiences

Sarah’s experience is global, spanning Fortune 50 to start-up companies. She spent years using her extraordinary ability to see connections in data, and her novel approach to measurement systems, to change the way people think and behave for rapid, sustained advancement in life and business.

Her past experience includes leading the Workplace Experience Program at Hewlett-Packard, serving 320,000+ global employees at the time, where she also created and ran the Experience Lab at HQ. After also working in Customer Experience, and fed up with measurements that gave insight without clear actions guaranteed to lead to success, Sarah used her unique background in A.I., cognitive science, and human behavior to develop a way to measure typically hard to quantify goals, in a way that also revealed the roadmap for success. A methodology that was featured in IDC’s Peerscape as an industry best practice for measuring and quantifying experience. Based on this framework, her data modeling company EffectUX, enabled businesses to achieve sustainable success across Customer Experience, Workplace Culture, and Leadership, helping brands such as Dreamworks, Logitech, Hewlett-Packard, LegalZoom, WhatsApp and many more, to deliver positive customer and employee experiences.

Sarah has travelled the globe studying human behavior as it pertains to experience, engagement, and productivity as well as spent hundreds of hours coaching leaders to unlock the power of their mind. In addition to conferences and speaking engagements, she has facilitated hundreds of workshops and training globally, both in person and virtually.

As the founder of MEvolution, Sarah is the mind behind the Energy Management Quotient algorithm and the creator of the curriculum for 70+ brain-and-behavior training modules within the system. She spends her time teaching, speaking, coaching and writing about all things energy management!

  • Awesome Inside Out Podcast

    Energy Management: the single most effective tool to achieving health and happiness.

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  • Opportunity Knocks Podcast

    Secrets to Unlocking Human Potential

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  • Get Carried Away Podcast

    Train Your Mind Ft. Sarah Deane

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  • emPowered

    Leveraging data to cultivate harmonious workplace cultures.

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  • AFN Network Expert Session

    Building Capacity and Harnessing the Power of Human Energy

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  • Future Worlds TL;DR

    How do we create more inclusive start-ups?

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Speaker

A sample of previous speaking engagements

ENERGIZE YOUR LIFE: A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH

Guest Lecturer, Stanford Continuing Studies

LIFE HACKS TO BE A POWER LEADER

A Watermark Webinar (www.wearewatermark.org)

HRWEST: UNLEASHING THE WHOLE HUMAN POTENTIAL

Virtual Conference

THE GLOBAL WORKPLACE WELLNESS SUMMIT

San Mateo, CA

UP LEVELING YOUR CONFIDENCE

Los Angeles, CA

SXSW: THE PRODUCTIVE WORKPLACE: UX, TECHNOLOGY, AND YOU

Austin, TX

EMPOWHER: WOMEN IN CORPORATE AMERICA

Panelist, Centene Corporation, for 2k+ employees

GARTNER: DESIGNING FOR HUMAN CAPACITY

Virtual Conference

A.I., CULTURE, AND THE NON DESK
WORKFORCE

San Francisco, CA

EXECUTIVE PRESENCE FOR WOMEN

Stanford University, CA

INVENT YOUR FUTURE CONFERENCE

Santa Clara, CA

ENERGY MANAGEMENT: WHY IS IT THE SINGLE MOST EFFECTIVE TOOL TO ACHIEVING HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

Awesome Inside Out Podcast

Host

The BeEnergized Fireside Chat Series

Sarah hosts and facilitates, along with Craig Hinkley, the popular BeEnergized chat series that focuses on raising awareness about energy management, exploring mental and emotional wellness, and bringing different viewpoints to the audience from science to leadership and personal life. Not afraid to ask hard questions, sharing her own experiences, and her standard no B.S. approach, these chats have been called informative, provocative, and inspiring.

Preparedness

4.9

Knowledge

5

Class Management

4.9

Sarah’s instructor scores. Average scores from all course evaluations out of 5.

Teacher

Stanford Continuing Studies Wellbeing Instructor

Sarah created two courses, centered on personal energy management. WELL18 is an end-to-end journey through a framework for living a positively energized life and WELL17 is a course that takes attendees through a process of identifying, validating, defining, and applying their personal core values. Both of her courses achieve, excellent and above average ratings for both course content, experience, and her abilities as an instructor.

Course Evaluation Instructor Feedback

  • WELL18

    “I absolutely loved learning from Sarah! What an experience to have a class taught by her.”

  • WELL18

    “Great, motivated, friendly, approachable, knowledgable, natural leader and an inspiration for myself and I am sure many others in the course. Not only did she impress me but she also gave me the tools to find my own clarity, courage, and reassurance that would pave the way for my own empowerment and successes. “

  • WELL18

    “This course was fun, engaging, inspiring and motivating. The instructor was phenomenal with her knowledge of the content, along with her cool slides and great use of them. “

  • WELL18

    ”Sarah was an amazing instructor who led the class with such a presence. She was extremely engaged and more than an expert in this arena. It was an honor to be taught by her.“

  • WELL18

    “Practical tools for application on harnessing control of time, energy and mental processes. Framework was beautifully structured on how to show up best for ourselves and in turn for the world.“

  • WELL18

    “For me the class did not end on the last day of instruction- it will continue as the instructor outlined, and I am experiencing personal growth now and anticipate growth will continue into the future. I am 70 and will be retiring soon. I feel confident going forward thanks to this class, and instructor! “

  • WELL18

    “Enthusiastic with lots of information and research about energy, recognizing its value, acquiring energy and detecting energy saps. “

  • WELL18

    “Very passionate and interesting topic, inspiring personal change “

  • WELL18

    “This class stood out as above average because of the instructor's attention to detail, organized/linear thinking in the way concepts were presented and clearly communicating what to expect at the beginning and end of every class. This class was so good in large part, because of who Sarah is and how she behaves:-)“

  • WELL17

    “Life changing lively, energetic values affirming personal and professional growth opportunity! Thank you Sarah! Very good.”

  • WELL17

    “Sarah was incredible. Her material was so up to date, interesting, and provided real context for the information she was teaching. I can't talk highly enough of Sarah and this course. I would absolutely not only take a course taught by Sarah again, but even take this specific course again.“

  • WELL17

    “This was highly interactive, super valuable, and nothing but kudos to Sarah and the work she does. THANK YOU.“

  • WELL17

    “This us such a transformational course. I am full of gratitude for what I learnt and how I am able to use it immediately into my life at work, at home and in community. Thank You Sarah and Stanford.“

  • WELL17

    “Sarah's level of expertise - both in the content and in supporting adult learning - were just incredible and set this class apart from some of my previous continuity studies experiences (where, for example, instructors may have content expertise but are disorganized and/or not skillful facilitators, etc.). Her level of preparation, organization, and ease (even delight) in guiding us were huge assets. So impressed and grateful.”

  • WELL17

    “Hands-on work on reflective exercises, plus a celebrity visit. Sarah did a phenomenal job. This is in the top 10% of classes I've taken. THANK YOU. “

  • WELL17

    “The group interaction was excellent and helped establish an open and safe learning environment.”

Writer

Thought Leadership

Sarah has enjoyed giving commentary and writing for many platforms across the various chapters in her career. Her writing won her three Human Resources Today MVP awards.

Sarah authored The Wellness Formula, based on her original research into what was needed to perform and feel your best throughout the day, which revealed 12 factors

Available on Amazon

EMPOWERING A DIVERSE PIPELINE TO LEADERSHIP

Sarah enjoys leveraging her research, tools, and systems to support the growth of women and empower a diverse leadership pipeline. Drawing on her unique blend of data-driven and use case inspired insights, she leads workshops and coaches women to maximize their impact in their lives and at work, foster healthy relationships, and catalyze sustained success.

“I believe that we owe it to every person that fought for the opportunities we have today, and to every little girl out there that thinks she can’t, to show her that she can.  

While policies and processes may be changing over time, the one thing we can all do, immediately, is work on ourselves, so that we are not our own biggest hindrances. 

Women tell me all the time, I want to speak up, I want to be noticed, I want to stop overthinking and take risks…but these capabilities are not a switch you can just turn on. We help women understand their behavior as it relates to their intrinsic value and mindset, surfacing opportunities for greater internal alignment, fulfillment, and ultimately, engagement in life and work. We focus on helping them build the mental muscles that they can use each and every day to forge the future they want.”
— Sarah Deane

TOPIC POSSIBILITIES

Sarah focuses on harnessing the power of human energy and capacity. How to unlock, manage, and optimize it. This includes resilience, emotional fitness, cognitive flexibility, self care, purpose and meaning, and other aspects of living an energy rich life. Her experience spans customer experience, employee experience, leadership and culture, application of A.I. & data, and women focused development.

How is authenticity tied to success? The power and impact of personal core values.

Why do some people feel a sense of achievement while others feel stagnant?

Designing experiences for human energy and capacity.

How does personal energy levels influence your relationships, life and success?

The science behind mindful practice. Directing your energy, attention, and focus.

Overthinking and other internal blockers. How to reduce mental and emotional energy drain!

  • “Thank you so much for your stories and your candor. What you said really resonated and it is so refreshing to see a leader that embraces their flaws and presents their authentic self. It helps us women know we can do it.”

    Executive Presence Participant, Tech StartUp

  • “The session was the most engaging and interactive I’ve ever been to. It is completely different to every training we have ever had. I seriously walked away with a whole new outlook.”

    Training Session Participant, BMS.

  • “Sarah has passion to help leaders become the best they can be, especially encouraging and empowering women in the work place. She was inspirational discussing her Life Hacks to Become a Power Leader”

    Donna Estrin, Marketing and communications leader

  • “Sarah Deane distills down to the essentials in a non nonsense fashion every time! A true authority in her field.”

    Sridhar Narasiman: Vice President, Customer Experience Hewlett Packard

  • “Your session on employee engagement made the whole conference for us. It was spot on and clear you just got it and the reality of change. The actions you gave us were so practical and useful!”

    Senior Manager, EA (Attendee Global Workplace Wellness Summit)

  • “This presenter was really funny and engaging, and super knowledgeable! All aspects of this were very relatable and easily transferred to my organization. It was a great format that also allowed for open dialogue and specifics answered.”

    Workplace Solutions Consultant (Attendee Global Workplace Wellness Summit)

  • “Sarah has inspired me, my teams and almost everyone she talks to of the importance of having a point of view and reaching for your goals. She has led several workshops for my team and customers around design thinking and leadership. She has been equally successful in the corporate world as she has as an entrepreneur and thought leader. I think she would be inspirational as a speaker or workshop leader.”

    TADD KOZIEL - VP HEWLETT PACKARD

  • “Sarah has always impressed me with her intuitively scientific approach. Her background in how the brain codifies and interprets information enables her to see through the obvious to create real breakthrough concepts in user experience. Sarah is able to translate complex tasks into a few easy steps by combining her deep knowledge on the brain, with her intuitively inspired but data rich analysis on how people react to their environment.”

    RENEE NIEME - SVP PLANTRONICS

Keynotes
Conferences
Company Events
Podcasts
Panels

“I like to combine informative content with practical application, so that attendees are engaged, motivated, and enabled to continue the momentum in their lives. My favorite thing is seeing the lightbulb turn on, those ah-ha moments, that transforms mindsets and disrupts ways of thinking.”

SARAH DEANE