Why windham consulting?
expertise and ethics
Sarah Windham, principal of Windham Consulting, has eight years of experience in operations and HR at non-profits and for profits in the US and UK. She is an expert in empowering staff and clients and ensuring the internal culture of an organization lives up to the ethics of the founder and the organization.
“i asked Sarah for help when I was totally stuck. I had found a call for grant applications from Innovate UK, the UK government’s incubator for innovative small businesses. They were offering a £100,000 grant for a business conducting research with an academic on something relating to their business. I knew my business could go to the next level with a better understanding of my customer’s shopping habits, but I had no idea how to start putting together that kind of a proposal. When I explained my issue to Sarah, she immediately saw the first step was finding an academic researcher. After a few hours she had figured out what specific fields of research would relate and sent me a list of several academics in each of those fields, along with their emails. I won the grant and it took my business to the next level, not only because of the helpfulness of the research, but also because it added massively to my credibility and to my belief in myself and my business.”
Ella Shone - Founder of TopUP Truck
NonProfits
Sarah learned her trade through hands on experience building internal infrastructure for nonprofits in women’s rights, education, and human rights across the US and in London.
Global women’s narratives project
while in college, sarah was one of the founders of the Global women’s narratives project, A unesco chair project to record the lived experiences of women. She built a replicable system that woould allow the project to be easily exported to other campuses. in 2017, she presented the project at the world summit of nobel peace prize laureates in bogotá, columbia.
TEach
teach is a classroom management training program for teachers and principals in failing schools in houston, texas. during her time at teach, Sarah not only ran the hr and operations, she also RECEIVED extensive training in non-verbal communication and management methods.
the sigrid rausing trust
The Sigrid Rausing Trust is a human rights and environmental grant giving organization based in london and focusing on core funding for grassroots organizations. At the trust, sarah coordinated hr and operations and served as the staff liason to the board.
ICAN Peacebuilding
Ican is a women peacebuilder support organization that advocates for the inclusion of women in peace negotiations while providing resources, training, and support for women peacebuilders globally. Sarah Facilitated the transition of their ceo and founder into a six month sabbatical and built out a process for her transition back.
for Profits
Sarah gained knowledge in for profit business through watching her father build a small business. She has since used her HR and operations experience to help friends and clients navigate a healthy balance between the need to produce a profit and the need to operate in line with their values.
windham builders
sarah worked as the admin ASSISTANT at her fathers small business throughout college and for a year after, gaining a deep understanding of what it takes to start a business and run it ethically.
Topup truck
the topup truck is a mobile zero waste shop serving the underserved east london neighborhood of hackney. sarah consulted for topup truck, providing a sounding board for its founder and assisting in recruiting an academic partner for a proposed large scale demonstrator project that won an innovate uk grant.
Global human rights group
Global human rights group (Ghrg) is a UNIQUELY structured human rights organization; a human rights consultancy using its profits to fund a nonprofit arm. Sarah has been building the internal infrastructure for ghrg.
MEET YOUR consultant
Sarah Windham
Ethical HR and Operations Specialist
Throughout my career, I have worked for a series of incredible women leaders who have been constantly striving to create organizations that live up to their values. I have been lucky enough to watch them in action, support their work, and provide a sounding board for them to work out solutions to big problems or brainstorm big new ideas.
My consulting practice allows me to support more founders and CEOs build ethically and avoid burnout. Often founders had a vision before they began their business of a fulfilling career outside of the toxic work culture found across corporate, creative, and charity sectors. They started a business so they would no longer have to answer to yelling bosses, only to find that the stress at times turns them into that yelling boss. But it doesn’t have to be that way, you’ve made the right first steps to a more ethical and fulfilling work life. I can help you make take the next steps in an ethical, efficient and enduring way.