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Sarah Van Dyck co-leads Egon Zehnder’s Global Consumer Practice and is a core member of the Board Practice. Based in San Francisco, she advises both industry leaders and emerging disruptors on leadership development, executive search, and board advisory services. Sarah’s 25 years of experience as a marketing executive with consumer and technology companies have shown her that organizational capacity is built when courageous and compassionate leaders invest in the potential of their teams.

I get my greatest joy partnering with leaders to illuminate opportunities to grow their organizations and themselves in ways they never imagined possible.

Prior to joining Egon Zehnder, Sarah was VP of Global Brand Marketing at Rosetta Stone. Previously, she was a Marketing Executive at LivingSocial. She was also Managing Director of MODO Group, where she oversaw global brand strategy initiatives for clients including Microsoft, Starbucks, Grupo Modelo, and Sony Ericsson. Sarah began her marketing career at Procter & Gamble.

Sarah received an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in history from Brown University. Outside of work, she enjoys watching her two teenage children develop their own passions and interests. She’s grateful they share their parents’ sense of adventure and curiosity so the family can explore the four corners of the earth together.

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Balancing Legacy and Evolution

Balancing Legacy and Evolution

Leadership succession pose unique challenges for founder-led beauty brands. Our analysis uncovers successful strategies and pitfalls amid this shift. Read more

Savage x Fenty: What’s Next for Company After Rihanna Resigned as CEO?

Savage x Fenty: What’s Next for Company After Rihanna Resigned as CEO?

Egon Zehnder's Sarah van Dyck has confirmed that Anthropologies' former CEO Hillary Super will succeed Rihanna as the CEO of Savage X Fenty. Read more

The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit — Eleventh Annual Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit — Eleventh Annual Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit, 2021, focuses on the theme of Marketing Leadership: "What’s Around the Corner?” As always, we explore topics from both… Read more

The Path to the Boardroom

The Path to the Boardroom

A practical guide to landing your first corporate board seat. Interviewing for First-Time Board Service: read successful strategies for meeting the unique challenges of… Read more

In Conversation with Vince Hudson, SVP Global Brand Strategy and Marketing Operations, American Express

In Conversation with Vince Hudson, SVP Global Brand Strategy and Marketing Operations, American Express

At the 2020 Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit, Sarah Van Dyck spoke with Vince Hudson, SVP Global Brand Strategy and Marketing Operations, American Express about… Read more

The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit — Tenth Annual Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit — Tenth Annual Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

The 10th anniversary Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit was unlike any other — a virtual setting that brought more attendees than ever before. Read more

Big “M” Marketing Just Got Bigger

Big “M” Marketing Just Got Bigger

If markets are transformed and the marketing function is evolving at an accelerated rate, who can you rely on to lead a re-imagined marketing… Read more

New Marketing for the New Normal

New Marketing for the New Normal

Changing market dynamics are driving shifts in the marketing function. The pandemic has accelerated those trends, and in many cases, left its own unique… Read more

Market-Morphosis: How the Landscape has Changed

Market-Morphosis: How the Landscape has Changed

The marketing landscape is not going back to “normal.” It has been transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic. And more change is yet to come. Read more

In Conversation with Vineet Mehra, Global CMO of Walgreens Boots Alliance

In Conversation with Vineet Mehra, Global CMO of Walgreens Boots Alliance

Egon Zehnder's Sarah Van Dyck sat down with Walgreens Boots Alliance's Global CMO to discuss how growth has impacted their marketing function. Read more

Creating Opportunities While Weathering a Crisis

Creating Opportunities While Weathering a Crisis

Egon Zehnder gathered Chinese executives and US public board members on May 14th to exchange their experiences and share their outlook for the future. Read more

How CEOs are Navigating COVID-19 in the Present and Planning for the Future

How CEOs are Navigating COVID-19 in the Present and Planning for the Future

CEOs from consumer companies discuss what strategies have been effective, lessons they have learned along the way, and what the business landscape might look… Read more

Driving Innovation and Disruption Among Consumer Brands Today

Driving Innovation and Disruption Among Consumer Brands Today

What are the talent and leadership implications that CEOs are contending with as they evolve and disrupt innovation within the consumer space? Read more

Applying Incubating to Marketing

Applying Incubating to Marketing

CMO of Eventbrite, Brian Irving, discusses the importance and bravery of applying incubating to marketing. Read more

Brand Purpose as a Pillar for Growth

Brand Purpose as a Pillar for Growth

Jay Sethi, CMO of Diageo Beer Company and VP of Smirnoff, discusses brand purpose and how Smirnoff leverages it as a pillar for growth. Read more

The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit — Ninth Annual Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit — Ninth Annual Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

At the 2019 Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit – the ninth-annual conference attended by 120 of today’s top marketers and held by The Kellogg School… Read more

The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit — Eighth Annual Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit — Eighth Annual Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

On October 3-4, Egon Zehnder, in collaboration with Kellogg School of Management and McKinsey & Company, convened senior marketing leaders for a dialogue on:… Read more

The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

Egon Zehnder is a founding partner of Northwestern University’s Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit. Read more

Negotiating For What You Really Want In Your New Job

Negotiating For What You Really Want In Your New Job

Sarah Van Dyck joins the Safe for Work podcast to discuss how to ask for what you really want out of a job. Read more

Egon Zehnder at the 2018 Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

Egon Zehnder at the 2018 Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

As CMOs continue to face obstacles in the dynamic business world, it’s important to remember the primary takeaways, gleaned while surrounded by peers who… Read more

Interview with Chief Marketing Officer, AR/VR, Facebook

Interview with Chief Marketing Officer, AR/VR, Facebook

Egon Zehnder's Sarah Van Dyck spoke with the CMO of AR/VR and Facebook, Rebecca Van Dyck, at the 2018 Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit. Read more

Interview with Chief Marketing Officer, Clorox

Interview with Chief Marketing Officer, Clorox

Egon Zehnder's Sarah Van Dyck spoke with Clorox CMO Eric Reynolds at the 2018 Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit. Read more

The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit — Sixth Annual Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit — Sixth Annual Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

For its sixth annual summit welcomed more than 100 senior marketing leaders on September 14-15, 2016. The program featured a mix of interactive sessions,… Read more

Defining the Modern Marketer: The Hourglass Imperative

Defining the Modern Marketer: The Hourglass Imperative

Defining and then finding the modern marketer is a task we face every day. Consider the hourglass. It is an iconic joining of equals… Read more

The Talent Innovation Formula for Transformational Marketing

The Talent Innovation Formula for Transformational Marketing

What is the right balance between traditionalists and change makers? In our experience, we’ve found the formula used by innovation leaders can also create… Read more

What We Heard – Never Waste a Crisis

What We Heard – Never Waste a Crisis

The combination of overlapping social media networks with passionate and vigilant consumers means that chief marketing officers and chief communications officers are never more… Read more

Notes from The New York Times’ New Work Summit

Notes from The New York Times’ New Work Summit

The topic of innovation is squarely on the agenda of today’s corporate decision makers. This was in full display at the recent New York… Read more

How CMOs in the Epicenter of Innovation View the World

How CMOs in the Epicenter of Innovation View the World

We recently held a private dinner for 20 CMOs from some of San Francisco’s most disruptive companies in the hospitality, food, insurance, financial services… Read more

CMSWire - Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and the Future of Digital Marketing

CMSWire - Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and the Future of Digital Marketing

Virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) will revolutionize digital marketing, write Egon Zehnder consultants Amanda Roberts and Sarah Van Dyck for CMSWire. Read more

AdAge - CMOs Unlock Growth by Building Agile Organisations

AdAge - CMOs Unlock Growth by Building Agile Organisations

In an increasingly disruptive world the key challenge facing CMOs is to create an agile organization that will help individuals to leverage their full… Read more

Procter & Google? The Marketing Academy of Tomorrow Takes Shape

Procter & Google? The Marketing Academy of Tomorrow Takes Shape

For a generation, Procter & Gamble has been more than an icon of consumer packaged goods—it’s been the West Point of marketing, producing hundreds… Read more

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