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A guiding light
for the souls
seeking more

23 books. 100+ countries. Three decades of building, writing, failing, coming back — and finding grace in all of it.

23
Books published
100+
Countries
$500M
Capital raised
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Harvard BestsellerMcGraw-Hill PublishedFortune · Inc. · Economist23 Books · 100+ Countries$500M Capital RaisedFilm Options · Chambers
The kaleidoscope — Sarah through every lens
I look at these growth opportunities as the straw and mud required to create additional blocks — building, one by one, the house I intend to walk into on the other side.
Tumors, Butterflies & My Hand-Built Eternal Home · February 2022
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Chambers: The Sphinx Princess
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From the Voice
Speaker
From No College Degree to the Harvard Stage
What I tell every room before I tell them anything else
"I share the failures alongside the successes, so the people in the room can learn from the mistakes — and shave years…
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Voice
Why I Write Across Every Platform
The honest reason my blogs, Instagram, and Facebook never stay in one lane
"I get bored, and so do my readers. The plan was to go in order. That plan lasted about a week. Now…
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Faith
Following the Prompt to Iceland
Why we booked a trip toward volcanic activity in the middle of layoffs
"God isn't going to give peace to one person while excluding the others. When it's a family decision, the entire team feels…
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Executive
What Thirty-Five Industries Taught Me About Alliances
From Microsoft and IBM to a FinTech startup, the pattern never changed
"Before the novels, I became an internationally recognized expert in the field of creating alliances. The work was never about the deal.…
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The complete Sarah Gerdes

Thirty years of building things that matter

Before adding author to her resume, Sarah became an internationally recognized expert in creating alliances — her successes featured in Fortune, Inc., Entrepreneur, and the Economist. She founded BMG at 27, represented Ireland, Britain, Microsoft, IBM, HBO, and Amazon, and raised over $500M for clients across 35 industries.

Alongside that career, she has written 23 books available in print, e-book and audio formats across more than 100 countries and four languages, with ten reaching number one. Several have been optioned for film. She is also a COO — co-founder of Incluud — a woman of faith, a world traveler, and a mother who believes God's promptings are the best navigation system available.

Harvard Business
Bestselling business author
McGraw-Hill
Navigating the Partnership Maze
Microsoft · IBM · HBO
Enterprise BD representation
Stanford · MIT · Harvard
International keynote speaker
Speaking & events
The fiction catalog

Smart Romance

Page-turners with romantic undertones — emotionally compelling, built on the same themes of perseverance that run through everything Sarah writes.

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Professional Speaking

A voice that has moved
rooms around the world

Rising from a single parent and without a college degree, Sarah entered the technology field and built a global career across start-ups, Fortune 50 companies, and three national governments. She speaks from lived experience — not a script.

"Motivation, determination, and perseverance go a long way. Sarah shares the failures along with the successes so others can learn from the mistakes — shaving years off time to market while saving millions of dollars."
Strategic Partnerships & Alliance Building
Entrepreneurship & Start-up Scaling
Women in Business & Leadership
AI, Technology & the Future of Work
Perseverance, Faith & Resilience
Capital Raising & Investor Relations
Author & Publishing Entrepreneurship
Women Entrepreneur of the Year
Forty Under Forty · Seattle
Young Entrepreneurs Award
Upcoming
Women in Business — Post Falls, Idaho
2026
Post Falls, Idaho
Speaking to women entrepreneurs and business leaders on perseverance, strategic partnerships, and navigating start-up culture.
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The inner life

Living by
the prompt

A major theme in Sarah's life — and her writing — is faith. Most commonly, this refers to hearing and acting upon little promptings. In her family, age is not a consideration: if one receives a prompting, they all take a pause, consider it, and determine if it is individual or collective.

This is the voice underneath the executive resume. The reason she said no to a billionaire by a lake in Idaho. The reason she accepted far less from a CEO whose daughter had died. The reason she followed a prompting to Iceland during layoffs and a new business launch.

"Not all actions are going to cause a reaction that we desire. Even so, the forward momentum, pushed along by the engine of desire while being directionally correct continues, regardless of the immediate outcome."
Slot Machine Relationships · April 2022
From the faith archive
Following the Prompt to Iceland
"God isn't going to give peace to one person while excluding the others. When it's a family decision, the entire team feels good about it, or…
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Sarah, everywhere

Each spoke carries a different dimension of her voice.

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The Professional Voice
"Partnership strategy, enterprise intelligence, and 30 years of closing what matters."
Latest: Navigating a partner ecosystem from zero to scale — the framework used at Network Appliance, $250M to $1.5B.
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The Voice & Inspiration
"The inner life, spoken aloud. Faith, perseverance, and the sentence that arrives at 3am."
Latest Reel: "God isn't going to give peace to one person while excluding the others."
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Smart Romance & Readers
"23 books, a reader community, and the catalog of smart romance optioned for film."
Latest: Sunset Moon is live. Which character would you trust with a secret?
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