SARA KING

Sara N. King is Principal of Optimum Insights, Inc., a company dedicated to helping others maximize their performance and reach their potential. With 25 years of experience as an executive coach, keynote speaker, author, workshop designer, and facilitator, Sara has served thousands of executives in Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, educational institutions, and nonprofits. She has held several positions of leadership over her 23 years at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), a top ranked global provider of education research, of which 10 years were spent running the Center's largest global business unit with a team located in Asia, Europe and 3 locations in the US. Sara has also been a key contributor to the evolution of the National Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) leadership training programs over the past 20 years. She has recently revised her book "Discovering the Leader in You" (originally published in 2001), which highlights the importance of a conscious decision to lead and offers a framework for developing leadership vision, values and skills. The updated version (2011), co-authored with David G. Altman and Robert J. Lee, is now available as a joint publication of CCL and the Jossey-Bass Business and Management Series. Sara King earned her B.A. in English from Wake Forest University and an M.S. in Higher Education Administration from Cornell University.