From a foundation of mindfulness, the team at Flitner Strategies helps business, nonprofit, and civic leaders leverage diversity of thought, experience, and social perspective to inspire innovation and achieve optimal results.
We equip organizations and their leaders with the skills needed to conquer the next challenge. By focusing on practical methods for aligning mission and purpose, we provide seasoned guidance to help teams “clear the noise” and focus on results.
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• Coalescing teams of people with varying skill sets to create a clear understanding of mission, and compelling and authentic messaging
• Building solutions for complex policy issues involving multiple stakeholders, often in situations with conflict
• Providing effective fundraising and business development services for entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations that need to be connected with resources and expertise
• Leading communication and strategy development for turn-arounds, including execution on financial and human capital additions -
• Providing external and internal communication strategy, messaging, and execution for clients ranging from businesses to nonprofits to state government agencies to multi-national companies
• Facilitating high-level policy discussions, including in economic development, conservation and land use, and environmental quality
• Delivering resilience training based in mindfulness to frontline and public-service workers across Wyoming challenged by the ongoing pandemic
• Operating the nonprofit Becoming Jackson Whole, an organization founded by Sara Flitner to build a mindful community in Jackson, Wyoming
About Sara Flitner
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Owner & Founder
A leader in organizational change with expertise in entrepreneurship, business development, project management, stakeholder engagement, strategy design, and collaborative problem-solving, Sara brings decades of innovation and pragmatism to organizations and leaders in all sectors of society. With her high-performing boutique consulting firm, Flitner Strategies, Inc., she focuses on multi-party stakeholder engagement, workplace resilience, and sustainable leadership. Her experience includes founding two mission-driven businesses – one as a private sector consultant to business and government initiatives and one as a private nonprofit delivering science-based mindfulness and resilience strategies to communities. She also has extensive experience in public policy, both as a chief strategist for high-profile policy initiatives and as a public servant (Mayor of Jackson, WY, 2015-1016).
“Utilizing my own experiences with systems and change theory, along with a deep familiarity and personal commitment to neuroscience, mindfulness, and emotional literacy, I am most at home tackling challenges at both the individual and systems level simultaneously,” she says. “Throughout my career I have developed a reputation for helping organizations develop durable strategies for stakeholder relationship management, stronger impact, and resilience in the face of change.”
A native of Shell, Wyoming, and graduate of University of Wyoming, Sara is passionate about and deeply connected to her home state and the wellbeing of its economy, its wildlife, and her fellow citizens.
