Services
How we help executive teams chart where smart organizational investments deliver powerful business performance
Organization design
Determine what structures will best unlock growth
Optimize your operating model and build airtight alignment
Achieve clarity so you know where to make critical people investments (e.g. post-close, new market, at key headcount thresholds)
People, culture, and networks
Uncover and engage influencers
Strengthen bonds where collaboration across groups is critical
Cultivate balance of decision vs. voice rights
Align and strengthen executive teams
Agility, growth, and innovation
Map emerging megatrends to mine hotspots and avoid blindspots
Embrace agile beliefs and practices (iterative, empirical, cross-functional, focused, continually improving)
Increase capacity to experiment and learn at both individual and system levels
Sarah Sonnenfeld
Principal & Founder
Alsephina Consulting, LLC
Sarah has led teams and advised clients at start-ups and some of the world’s most respected companies. Sarah began her career in sales operations and B2B client service in a venture-backed technology firm. She then worked on the corporate side, doing technology strategy and organizational effectiveness at American Express, Thomson Reuters, and Fidelity Investments.
Before founding Alsephina Consulting, Sarah ran the North America division of the People & Organization Practice at Boston Consulting Group. In addition to serving clients and leading practice operations, Sarah was on incubation and launch teams for multiple new businesses, including behavioral insights in change management (2016), Agile at Scale (2017), people analytics (2018). She led flagship conferences including a summit for 50 leading CHROs on new ways of working (2017) and on emerging trends at the intersection of organization design and technology (2018).
Sarah lives in Boston and holds a BA from Harvard and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth.
