Sara Taylor

Sara Taylor turns messy people challenges in schools and mission-driven organizations into clean, working systems. At LeaderScript, she tackles the hard problems most leaders quietly postpone: broken staffing models, unclear roles, shaky compensation structures, and people systems that never quite land. Her work lives in the high-stakes world of charter schools, charter networks, and social impact nonprofits where every hire and every staffing decision hits students, communities, and budgets in real time. While many leaders chase quick HR fixes, Sara sees the deeper issue with ruthless clarity: strategy, structure, and staffing are out of sync, and until they line up, nothing scales without pain.

Her edge is diagnostic precision. Sara walks into complex organizations and quickly reads the talent landscape through interviews, data, and pattern spotting that expose where roles, compensation, and expectations are working against the mission. Instead of dropping in off-the-shelf HR playbooks, she builds grounded talent strategies, equitable hiring and compensation frameworks, and staffing structures that match the real conditions on the ground. She guides leaders through organizational and staffing audits, redesigns people systems with them, and then anchors those designs in role clarity, performance management, and smart change management so they actually stick in day-to-day practice. The result is not theory on paper, but visible shifts in how teams are built, managed, and sustained over time.

When the stakes are high and the organization is growing, restructuring, or absorbing enrollment shocks, Sara is the partner leaders want at their side. She operates with calm, direct pragmatism, cuts straight to the decision points, and keeps the work focused on what will protect the mission and the people who deliver it. Clients feel the difference in fewer talent fires, cleaner ownership lines, steadier transitions, and a people strategy that finally supports long-term sustainability instead of fighting it. Leaders who work with her walk away with aligned structures, clear paths for their teams, and the confidence that their people systems can handle what comes next.