Sara Hand

With more than 45 clients over the last five years, Sara Hand has been the secret weapon for individuals and corporations who desire an experienced business-development strategist to identify new profit opportunities and practical courses of action. Sara Hand is known as a person who gets things done.

As founder of SP Hand and Associates, Sara’s background and experience across a variety of industries in the public and private sectors and dual leadership roles in many vibrant community initiatives provide Sara with a rare combination of skill sets to inspire creative solutions.  Her strengths leveraging unique value propositions and her ability to create synergistic partnerships between the many incredible resources within her networking connections pool enable her to be a uniquely valuable and visionary leader to her clients. With a multi-disciplinary team of professionals, the SP Hand and Associates team provides customized solutions for short and long-term strategic business development.

Sara has the ability to very quickly identify what unique value proposition a business, individual or organization possesses – what is their ideal market, how they could optimize their revenue model, refine their messaging to connect with prospects and how to creatively broadcast that message. Identified profit-opportunities are coupled with the pragmatic planning necessary to exploit those opportunities and the systems and tools necessary for implementation.

Are you anxious for your business to evolve and expand, but just not sure where to begin? Is your business evolving and adapting during these changing times or are you stuck? The key to business development is evaluating processes and systems with a new perspective. Sara guides businesses to focus on innovative ways to generate new revenue models utilizing current resources and developing efficient best practices. She specializes in “mindset management” to keep clients on track.

Passionate about education and economic development, Sara inspires change. Whether working with an organization or a community initiative, she focuses on identifying strengths and developing leadership. Sara is the founder of BarCamp Sarasota, one of the largest and fastest growing business, technology, education and economic development communities in Florida. She encourages others to get involved, and believes strongly that even one person can make a difference through the “Power of Permission” and brings this unique perspective to the BarCamp Sarasota community building activities she organizes as well as her leadership roles.