About Prospect Strategies
Meet Your Thought Partner in Possibility
What is A Prospect?
The products, services, or people that represent your greatest chances of success. Where all your energy and attention should be.
Through purposeful business communications and transformational leadership strategies, Sarah L. Manley Robertson helps you Uncover Possibilities and Create the Capacity to pursue those prospects.
Rewriting the Rules—Together.
Hi, I’m Sarah. Working with me, you’ll get back to running your organization while we drive alignment, engage stakeholders, accelerate transitions, and close trust gaps through purposeful communications and transformational leadership strategies.
You’ll chart your own course; you’ll leave a clear trail. Your legacy will be a productive and positive workplace.
As a former corporate executive, I know what it takes to lead in complex, volatile environments. I’ve set & directed strategies addressing leadership transitions, corporate culture transformations, mergers & acquisitions, systems implementations, organizational design changes, major public health crises, litigation, U.S. and Canadian bankruptcy proceedings, performance & talent management, reputation challenges.
After directly supporting 20 successful C-suite leaders, my clients trust me to work behind the scenes to elevate their leadership in mid-to-large global and national organizations across sectors: business process management, life sciences and pharmaceuticals, global standards, quick service restaurant, healthcare, not-for-profit, and manufacturing.
I look forward to helping you Uncover Possibility and Create Capacity as you achieve business results in the face of transformation and uncertainty.
Trusted Insight.
Bold Action.
Sarah L. Manley Robertson, SCMP®, ABC, Prosci ® is an award-winning and published independent communications strategist who will help you tackle your toughest business challenges with purposeful communications and transformational leadership strategies.
Over almost three decades she has helped leaders break through noise, chart new paths, and restore order to complex challenges. She knows how to navigate complexity and uncertainty in highly regulated environments, engage diverse stakeholders with high expectations, and integrate seamlessly into your trusted team.
While also actively contributing to organization successes as a member of the executive team, she has set, directed & executed strategies addressing leadership transitions, corporate culture transformation, mergers & acquisitions, systems implementations, organizational design changes, major public health crises, litigation, U.S. and Canadian bankruptcy proceedings, reputation challenges.
Leveraging her arsenal of successes (and a few hard-learned lessons), she excels at turning your strategy into action, optimizing the value of your corporate and executive communications investment, and helping your team create a productive and positive workplace.
Sarah is recognized as one of PR News’s Top Women: Industry Champion 2024 and Ragan Communications & PR Daily’s Top Women in PR: Crisis Navigator 2021. Her clients trust her to work behind the scenes to get results and elevate their leadership in sectors such as global digital business services, life sciences and pharmaceuticals, healthcare, not-for-profit, global standards, and manufacturing. She has overseen successful corporate communications & social responsibility mandates for mid-to-large organizations with global or national reach in the Greater Toronto Area, the New York metropolitan Tri-state area, and the Halifax Region.
Sarah is a lifelong learner. She recently achieved her global certification as a Strategic Communications Management Professional®, completed a certificate in Building Positive Workplace Cultures with Dalhousie University. She’s a certified Lumina Learning® Practitioner in Lumina Spark and is a certified change management practitioner with Prosci®. Her views on “Communicating in Canada” for U.S. practitioners were published in the 5th Edition of The Public Relations Handbook (Dilenschneider).
Sarah also believes in giving back. Her current volunteer roles include: Communications Advisor to Brigadoon Village, and We Are Young; Board Member with Unsinkable; President, Canadian Public Relations Society Nova Scotia; Registered Research Panelist with the Commission on Public Relations Education; judge for IABC/Toronto’s Ovation Awards; and speaker at 2024 Public Relations Society of America conferences and the 2025 IABC World Conference.
Sarah will help you Uncover Possibility and Create Capacity as you achieve business results in the face of transformation and uncertainty.
Sarah lives in Prospect, Nova Scotia with her husband, son and black & tan hound, Beau.
Question. Challenge. Redefine.
Let’s find what’s possible.
I ask: "what if that weren't true?" and "why not?" to help you find root causes and explore options.
You can count on me to crystallize diverse perspectives into purposeful insight-driven solutions you can use.
I get it done in the face of adversity.
I believe rigorous planning and diligent listening are the best risk management and engagement strategies.
I know words matter. I know actions matter more. You can count on me to help you choose both carefully.
I believe in the power of self-awareness and building from strengths.
I value both tradition and innovation. You can count on me to help you untangle your ideas and find your voice.
Collaborating with and leveraging your most trusted leaders across operations, enablement, and people & culture, I will help you deliver results. Together we will create an engaged, productive, and empowered workforce through proven executive communications strategies, done your way.
Ready to Break the Mold?
Let’s uncover possibilities, tackle roadblocks, and map your next move—no strings attached.