Sarah Hathorn, AICI CIP, CPBS

CEO & Founder, Illustra Consulting

Predictable Promotion™ Expert & Mentor

Attitude Latitude = Magnitude

Sarah Hathorn is an internationally acclaimed high-demand speaker specializing in leadership development, professional executive presence, and effective strategies for winning faster promotions, pay increases, and enhanced bonus packages in today's challenging corporate arena.

Sarah is the founding CEO of Illustra Consulting, the creator of the proprietary Predictable Promotion System, and she spent more than 25 years as a senior level executive with a Fortune 100 company. Her extraordinary talent and passion is helping others acquire value-adding skills, resources, and intentional strategies - and then showing them how to immediately leverage those to catapult their own careers in record time. Her client list is a virtual "Who's Who" of Fortune 500 organizations and their executive leaders.

Sarah offers high-content keynote presentations, interactive leadership development workshops, and dynamic women's leadership events. Each of her presentations can be individually tailored to the specific needs and objectives of individuals, teams, and companies. Participants come away from these engaging events with valuable and practical take-away tools, techniques, and adaptable solution-based concepts. Sarah inspires and empowers her audiences to become the CEOs of their own career destinies for accelerated performance plus tangible personal and professional success.

For 25 years she has shared her innovative techniques, keen vision, and unique depth and breadth of experience to ensure that those around her quickly achieve their personal, professional, and financial goals and dreams. During her Fortune 100 tenure Sarah endured the tumultuous chaos of multiple corporate mergers, acquisitions, and downsizing initiatives. Despite those constant challenges she gained fast, successive promotions by helping fellow employees develop into outstanding leaders of the highest caliber. Many of her former colleagues, protégés, and clients now occupy top positions in Fortune 500 companies thanks to her savvy guidance, empathic coaching, and visionary leadership development process.

Speaking Programs

Earning Predictable Promotions through Catalytic Growth

• Become a proactive learner who scans the leading edge of the horizon, quickly assimilates knowledge, and has the ability to put what you learn into practical action that immediately benefits the bottom line.
• Navigate the new hierarchical paradigm of today's leading corporations by accurately reading power play situations that baffle and challenge others - while they pave and accelerate your way to the top.
• Chart the most direct route to pay increases, lucrative bonus packages, and rapid ascension up the promotional ladder by mastering the lateral and vertical chessboard of organizational structure in the new decade.
• Transform yourself into a high potential and then leverage your enhanced value to accomplish a more rewarding life/work balance supported by greater leadership responsibility, high-demand status within your industry, and dream-fulfilling financial success.

Leadership Development for High Potentials and Higher Earnings

• Quickly acquire the level of extraordinary leadership value and skill that corporations prize, in order to accelerate career success and achieve higher earnings, bigger bonuses, and faster promotions.
• Develop an authentic and charismatic executive leadership presence to inspire teams, win elite clients, and capture the top positions of leadership and influence in today's globally competitive businesses.
• Rise to the top of your organization's succession planning list through an innovative and intensive 10-step system tested and proven to rapidly add value to high potentials in Fortune 100 companies.
• Identify and develop raw talent, build high performance teams, and lead others to rapid promotions and greater responsibility to make yourself invaluable to your organization - thus ensuring your own sustainable success.

Predictable Promotion:  Will You Be Next? (Keynote)

• Stop being passed over for prized promotions and catapult your career higher, despite a harsh economic climate or fierce competition.
• Gain positive recognition and exposure up the corporate ladder by strategically promoting yourself to decision makers.
• Acquire a powerful leadership presence to rise to the top of the succession planning list and get promoted in record time.
• Accelerate your high-value potential and leverage it into rapid promotions and larger salaries and bonuses.

"I Don't Need a Wingman - I Need a Leader"

• Meet the challenges of the future with succession-listed leaders who are fully prepared and developed now, not later.
• Identify and transform high achievers into high potentials and high potentials into outstanding executive leaders.
• Develop a multi-dimensional leadership presence through proven steps that add poise, performance, influence, and value.
• Shoulder greater responsibility, contribute innovative ideas, gain powerful credibility, and put your compelling vision into practical action to impact the bottom line.

The X Factor: Empowering Women to Lead the 21st Century

• Leverage the uniquely powerful and positive leadership attributes of women as their X-chromosome factor rapidly reshapes the global business arena with women at the helm.
• Develop an empowered leadership presence, authentic personal brand, and the ability to deliver extraordinary results with remarkable poise and grace under pressure.
• Bring out the best in others to develop high potentials and accelerated performance teams that support your leadership as a woman rapidly ascending the corporate ladder.
• Exude the confidence, charisma, and capability needed to lead and inspire people, organizations, and industries into the future of a new century.