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Sara Blenkhorn


Consultant
Vancouver
blenkhorn@reospartners.com

Leadership Team
Stephen AtkinsonMelbourneMille BojerGenevaYiannis ChrysostomidisLondonRussell FisherMelbourneAdam KahaneMontrealColleen MagnerJohannesburgJoe McCarronCambridgeGuilherme RodriguesSão PauloChristel ScholtenSão PauloMahmood SondayJohannesburgView the Team »
 

Sara Blenkhorn invents solutions using social innovation and peer-to-peer relations. She has an uncanny ability to know who to connect to and when; finding ways of working across silos and building collaborations that are in service to a wider agenda.

About

After exposure to extreme poverty and environmental destruction, while living in places like Tanzania, Mexico, Cuba, and Guatemala, Sara has dedicated her life’s work to creating solutions that address environmental degradation and social injustices. With over ten years of program development and management experience, Sara leads from behind allowing people to shine in their respective areas. She makes space for new ideas and contributions in a way that welcomes a diversity of skills and talents to step up. Described by her team as empathetic, sharp, heart-centered, magnetic, strong, tireless, flexible, energetic, and accommodating; with an insatiable curiosity and a willingness to take risks. Prior to joining Reos Partners, Sara founded and built four successful social enterprises.

Expertise

Sustainability strategy, social innovation, facilitation, circularity, collaboration

 

Background

  • Served as Director and CEO of Leverage Lab
  • Produced Canada’s first Social Innovation Lab Practitioners convergence.
  • Worked as Engagement Specialist the City of Vancouver’s Innovation hub - CityStudio
  • Served as Circular Design Specialist to Sitka Clothing Co.
  • Facilitated the development of the City of Vancouver’s 2040 Zero Waste Strategy.
  • Served as Conference Co-Producer to Social Innovation Exchange (SIX)
  • Taught as Adjunct professor to BCIT on Sustainable Organizational Change Management

Education

  • M.Sc. Strategic Leadership in Sustainability, BTH, Blekinge, Sweden
  • BA (Honors) in International Development and Spanish), Dalhousie, Halifax, N.S
  • Toastmasters Speech Craft Graduate
  • IDEO + ACUMEN Human Centred Design course Graduate
  • Landmark Education Graduate, The Forum, Advanced course, Communications course and S.E.L.P
  • Visual Thinking School Graduate, XPLANE -
  • Facilitation training by Rachael Marcuse - Group dynamics
  • Facilitation training by Jillian Griggs - Alchemy of group Facilitation
  • Facilitation training by David Hatfield - Conflict Resolution
  • Sprout e-Business Administration course graduate
  • The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Training graduate
  • Social Innovation Certificate, SFU Candidate

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