Sara Link
Sara leads the firm's Social Impact and Philanthropy practice area.
She has more than 10 years experience in the areas of leadership, human capital, employee engagement, corporate citizenship, nonprofit management and philanthropy.
Sara spent nine years at Goldman Sachs. She was a program manager at The Goldman Sachs Foundation where she led corporate citizenship initiatives and focused on the Foundation’s international growth in Asia and Europe. Sara worked closely with leading nonprofit organizations in the areas of education, entrepreneurship and youth development, and collaborated with leaders across sectors including CEOs of global organizations, government officials, university presidents, and directors of NGOs. Sara worked with media outlets around the world and developed branding and public relations strategies to raise awareness of key programs. She also ran a venture philanthropy program, significantly increasing the number of employees to lend their expertise to nonprofit organizations.
Prior to The GS Foundation, Sara was in Goldman Sachs’ Human Capital Management Division where she developed health and wellbeing programs for employees. In this role she coordinated learning programs for employees around the world, led global marketing, evaluation and program design and spent two years in London to expand the programs in Europe and India.
Sara is on the advisory board of New Leaders for New Schools, the young leadership boards of The Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park as well as Summer Search, and is active with Echoing Green's Social Investment Council.
She holds an M.A. from Columbia University in Organizational Psychology and a B.A. from the University of Maryland in Psychology.