Sara Green Brodersen
Sara Green Brodersen delivers sharp, practical insights on leadership, scaling teams, innovation, and the mindset that drives successful organisations.
Why you should book Sara Green Brodersen for your next event
- Gain real-world lessons from a leader who has guided startups and scale-ups through growth, crisis, and transformation.
- Learn how to build teams that thrive through change with a speaker who blends strategy, culture, and operational depth.
- Discover how corporates can apply startup thinking without the chaos and create environments where innovation sticks.
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Founder, executive & advisor with nearly 20 years of scaling organisations across Europe
Sara Green Brodersen brings nearly two decades of lived leadership experience from startups, scale-ups, and evolving organisations across Europe. As a two-time founder, former Chief of Staff, Chief People Officer, and now Entrepreneur in Residence at CodeBase, she has helped countless leaders navigate growth, change, and the pressures of building something meaningful. Her talks combine strategic clarity with a human, pragmatic approach shaped by years inside high-growth environments. Audiences walk away with practical tools, clear insights, and fresh perspective on leadership, culture, and the power of startup thinking.
About Sara Green Brodersen
Sara Green Brodersen is an experienced founder, senior executive, and advisor with close to two decades of helping organisations grow, evolve, and strengthen their leadership. Today she serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence at CodeBase, the UK’s largest startup ecosystem builder, where she supports founders and leadership teams navigating growth, uncertainty, and the constant pressure to adapt. Her background spans startups, scale-ups, and established organisations, giving her a detailed understanding of how teams shift as complexity increases and how leaders can guide that journey with clarity.
Across her career, Sara has held roles including Chief of Staff, Chief People Officer, and CEO. These roles have placed her at the centre of strategic decisions, organisational shifts, and moments where leadership alignment becomes critical. She has helped companies refine strategy, design stronger operating models, and build leadership teams that can handle both opportunity and challenge. As a two-time founder, she has also lived the intensity of building businesses herself, an experience that grounds her perspective in reality rather than theory.
Her work sits at the intersection of people, strategy, and operations. She helps organisations scale in ways that protect culture, maintain alignment, and support performance. This balanced approach is reflected in her talks, where she focuses on how organisations can grow without losing themselves and how leaders can make better decisions even when the environment moves faster than the playbook.
Book Sara Green Brodersen for your event
Organisations choose Sara because she brings clarity, directness, and a deep understanding of what high-growth environments demand. Her sessions help audiences understand how to maintain pace without drifting, how to build trust inside leadership teams, and how to avoid the common traps that slow companies down. She blends strategic insight with the practical mindset of someone who has spent years in the room where decisions are made and implemented.
Her talks help teams see how to borrow the best from startup behaviour ownership, adaptability, continuous learning, while avoiding the parts that create chaos. For corporates seeking fresh momentum and for founders trying to scale sustainably, Sara offers a perspective that bridges both worlds. She cuts through complexity and highlights what actually creates forward movement.
Core themes
Sara’s work focuses on leadership, culture, scaling, and modern organisational design. She brings real examples from supporting dozens of founders through growth, crisis, and reinvention. These experiences help her translate organisational challenges into clear, actionable ideas. Whether discussing how to lead through ambiguity or how to design teams that perform, she makes complex topics easier to grasp.
Her sessions explore how organisations can stay focused during rapid expansion, how leaders can communicate more effectively, and how culture develops and erodes, under pressure. She also challenges common myths about innovation and highlights the behaviours that truly drive progress.
What you’ll learn
Before she introduces practical takeaways, Sara lays the groundwork by helping audiences understand the underlying dynamics: how organisations evolve, why alignment breaks down, and where leaders often underestimate risk or overestimate clarity.
This context makes the following insights especially actionable:
- How to lead through rapid change with clarity and confidence.
- How to scale teams without losing culture or momentum.
- What corporates can learn from startup thinking and what to avoid.
- How to build leadership teams that operate as one unit.
- Why operational depth and agility must work together.
- How to create environments where people and performance support each other.
Why audiences connect with Sara
Sara brings depth, realism, and a human approach to leadership. She speaks openly about the realities behind growth the uncertainty, the decision fatigue, the pressure leaders face, and the tension between speed and sustainability. Her lived experience as a working parent in senior leadership roles adds authenticity and nuance to her talks, making her relatable to audiences across industries.
She has guided organisations through moments of intense pressure, from rapid scaling to strategic resets. She has supported founders through crisis, helped rebuild leadership teams, and shaped cultures that last beyond individual personalities or market cycles. Her broad experience across sectors and growth stages allows her to speak to both founders and corporate executives with equal relevance.
For organisations searching for a speaker with grounded insights, practical takeaways, and a perspective shaped by real operating experience, Sara Green Brodersen delivers sessions that inspire thoughtful action. Her talks give leaders and teams tools they can apply immediately, whether they are navigating transformation, building new capabilities, or simply trying to work smarter in a world defined by constant change.
Keynotes
Keynote by Sara Green Brodersen:
What Corporates Can Learn from Startups (Without the Chaos)
Every corporate wants to be more agile, but few want the messiness of startup life. In this keynote, Sara Green Brodersen distils over a decade of startup experience into five practical behaviours corporates can adopt, without risking burnout or broken systems. She demystifies startup culture and shows how to bring clarity, customer obsession, and adaptability into large organisations, all grounded in real-world experience as a founder, advisor, and operator.
This talk is perfect for: Innovation teams, corporate strategy groups, product leaders, and anyone tired of buzzwords who wants practical tools to lead change.
Keynote by Sara Green Brodersen:
Startup Thinking for Corporate Leaders: How to Move Faster Without Breaking Everything
Speed is the new strategy, but only if it’s healthy, sustainable, and deliberate. In this talk, Sara Green Brodersen explores how startup-style velocity can be applied inside large organisations without creating chaos.
Drawing on her experience building and supporting fast-moving startups and scaling teams, she introduces the FAST model: a practical framework for increasing speed through focus, autonomy, systems, and temperature checks. No fluff, just real tools for moving fast and well.
This talk is ideal for: Senior leaders, transformation teams, and executives looking to unlock high-performance without compromising quality or culture.
Keynote by Sara Green Brodersen:
Scaling Smart: How High-Performing Teams Grow Without Losing Their Soul
Growth is exciting, until it breaks your team. In this keynote, Sara Green Brodersen shares hard-won lessons from startup and scale-up life about what really sustains high performance during rapid growth. With stories and strategies from across the UK and European tech scenes, she introduces the 3Cs of Sustainable Scale: Clarity, Cadence, and Care. Attendees walk away with a playbook for scaling teams that thrive, not just survive.
Designed for: People & Culture teams, leadership offsites, scale-up coaching programmes, and corporates navigating fast growth or reorganisation.
Keynote by Sara Green Brodersen:
The Future of Work Is Human: What Startups Get Right About Leadership (and What They Don’t)
In a world of AI, hybrid work, and deep transformation, the edge isn’t more tech, it’s more human leadership. In this thoughtful and energising talk, Sara Green Brodersen shares what she’s seen work (and fail) across the startup landscape: from radical transparency to trust-based cultures, autonomy to burnout.
She offers a fresh framework for leadership that meets the moment: deeply human, deeply effective and surprisingly simple to begin.
Best for: Leadership development, DEI & culture conferences, corporate HR events, or companies rethinking how they lead in the modern workplace.
Keynote by Sara Green Brodersen:
Leading Like a Dane: What Danish Leadership Culture Can Teach the World
In an era of hybrid teams, burnout, and top-down fatigue, leadership needs a rethink not more KPIs, but more human-centred, trust-driven approaches.
Enter Denmark.
Consistently ranked among the happiest and most productive countries in the world, Danish leadership culture is built on trust, autonomy, and equality not hierarchy and micromanagement. In this engaging and practical talk, Sara Green Brodersen draws from nearly two decades of leadership experience across Europe to explore what organisations of any size can learn from the Danish approach and how to apply it without just copying Scandi aesthetics.
Whether you're scaling a startup or modernising a corporate culture, “leading like a Dane” might be your most unexpected advantage.
Best for: Corporate leaders modernising their management culture, Startups scaling without wanting to replicate toxic hustle culture, International teams navigating cross-cultural leadership, HR and people teams designing better leadership development programmes
Keynote by Sara Green Brodersen:
Culture as Strategy: Why Partnerships Fail Before the Contract Is Signed
Every organisation wants successful collaborations with clients, corporates, suppliers, or startups but most partnership failures have nothing to do with product or contract terms. They break in the invisible space between the two companies: culture.
In this keynote, Sara Green Brodersen draws on her experience as a two-time founder, Chief of Staff, and Chief People Officer to explain why deals stall, why needles don’t move after press releases, and why “aligning on the work” always starts with aligning on pace, ownership, and behaviour. Expect practical language, real anecdotes from startup–corporate collisions, and a simple framework you can use to spot misalignment before it becomes expensive.
This talk is perfect for: Partnership leaders, innovation teams, legal ops, founder programmes, accelerators, and anyone responsible for corporate–startup collaboration, strategic alliances, vendor onboarding, or post-investment integration, especially those who’ve watched a promising partnership quietly die in an email thread.
