Sara Frasca
Former General Mills Leader & Proven Innovation Expert
Positive Disruptor and Business Success Champion
Award Winning Small Business Owner
With her passion for innovation and never-ending optimism, Sara Frasca is a business growth expert. Honing her skills in senior leadership roles in both the corporate and startup worlds, Sara now serves as CEO for Point NorthEast, a global business coaching firm. She takes leading organizations on a journey to cultivate human imagination, build a culture of accountability, and solve complex problems to drive business growth. Sara is the go-to guide for leaders seeking a competitive advantage and sustainable success.
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Sara Frasca delivers high-powered, inspirational keynotes on innovation, inventive thinking, and creative problem-solving. Her energizing speeches inspire change and move audiences to action. She’s the ideal fit to energize your audience and deliver practical takeaway value to leave a lasting impact.
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Change isn't the threat — stagnation is. Equips leaders to turn their teams into engines of creative problem-solving that treat disruption as competitive advantage, not crisis. Your audience will gather key takeaways from this keynote like reframing change as opportunity, building a culture where innovation is expected, not exceptional, and practical tools to challenge conventional thinking
• Pairs well with: Innovation Accelerator Workshop
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Every business is on a Journey — the question is whether you're navigating it or drifting. A roadmap for embedding systems of success into the core of the organization, wherever they're starting from, so ideas become measurable, sustainable growth — moving the business Up and to the Right™. Your audience will Identify your organization's current Basecamp, they will learn frameworks to turn strategy into action and systems that outlast any one leader!
• Pairs well with: Strategic Performance Navigation Workshop
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In times of drastic change, the team looks to the leader as their compass. How leaders build a unified, fully-engaged team aligned to strategy and values — drawing on Sara's experience as a female entrepreneur leading through transformation. Your team will learn how to define your organization's "True North.” Building alignment across a team through change and leading with clarity instead of control
• Pairs well with: Leadership Elevation Workshop
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Leadership isn't one path — it's woven from many. Drawing from their podcast and upcoming book, Sara, Laura, and Tracy share their own leadership journeys — inspiration, communication, mentorship, and empowerment — to show audiences how to leverage their gender strengths to build stronger teams and businesses. Your audience of bold woman will takeaway real lived leadership stories, not theories, how different strengths combine into a stronger team and practical insight on mentorship and empowerment in action.
Presenters: Sara, Laura, and Tracy (three Point NorthEast women)
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Fulfillment isn't a byproduct of success — it's a decision. Using the Strategic Life Planning framework from the book, teams work through the exercises together to clarify what truly matters, align their careers with their values, and build a strategic plan where business and life goals evolve together. In the room, we will facilitate discussion and group work through the workbook's reflection exercises, each participant will leave with the start of their own Strategic Life Plan.
Based on: The Intentional Journey: How to Build a Strategic Plan for Business and Life! by Sara Frasca and Michael Smith
Pre-work: Team should have read the book to prepare for the workbook section. Copies can be purchased through us at a discounted rate prior to the workshop.
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Combines the leader's vision for the business with proven succession models to build a concrete plan for the business's next chapter.
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Teams build a shared vision together, then design the operating systems and processes that turn that vision into sustained, measurable performance.
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Builds the core leadership capabilities needed to drive team performance and navigate growth and complexity. Ability + Accountability = Stability.
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Hands-on work with proven innovation tools and methods to solve real, current business challenges in the room.
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The companion workshop to Tits, Wit, & Grit — where the keynote's stories become the room's action plan. Participants dig into their own leadership strengths and blind spots, working through practical exercises on mentorship, communication, and empowerment to walk away with a concrete plan for leading — and succeeding — in their own roles through gender.
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Sara Frasca delivers high-powered, inspirational keynotes on innovation, inventive thinking, and creative problem-solving. Her energizing speeches inspire change and move audiences to action. She’s the ideal fit to energize your audience and deliver practical takeaway value to leave a lasting impact.
More from Sara
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Business & Consulting
The partners of Point NorthEast bring deep experience and fresh perspectives to boost your organization to its next stage of growth. We help you assess your situation, enhance team dynamics, map a path to achieving measurable results and bring the tools you need for achieving your wildest dreams.
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Workshops
From 1/2-day to multi-day formats, Sara’s innovation workshops are powerful experiences designed to provide you with a systematic approach to developing a sustainable culture of innovation. Click here to learn more.