Sarah is a partner in McKinsey’s Raleigh office and a leader within the firm’s Global Energy and Materials Practice. Sarah leads McKinsey’s water work in North America, where she advises utilities, technology companies, and investors on growth, operational performance, resilience, and capital deployment in the water sector. Sarah also advises clients in the regulated power and gas utility space on operational performance and strategy.
In addition to her client work, Sarah helps advance cross-sector collaboration on infrastructure resilience and sustainability. She has led partnerships with organizations including the World Economic Forum and the CEO Water Mandate, supporting initiatives focused on public-private collaboration in water. She also serves on the selection committee for ImagineH2O and on the Industry Advisory Board for Duke University’s Master of Climate and Sustainability Engineering program.
Examples of Sarah’s recent client work:
- leading operations and procurement transformation for a large US private municipal water and wastewater operator
- leading technology strategy for a US public water infrastructure company
- leading growth and business building strategy for a US public industrials company seeking to grow in water treatment space
- leading strategic planning process and comprehensive operational diagnostic for one of the largest municipal water and wastewater utilities in the US
- leading operations, strategy, and resiliency diagnostic for a mid-sized US private water utility with operations across the southeastern US
- leading growth strategy, implementation, and development of M&A opportunities and adjacencies for a national US waste operator
- leading commercial due diligences focused on multiple assets within the specialty waste and environmental services spaces, including environmental remediation, waste brokerage, and organic waste processing
- leading commercial due diligences and initial value creation strategies for multiple assets focused on the municipal and industrial water and wastewater value chain (e.g. desalination, chemicals, treatment operations, network maintenance, and capex); as part of this work developed perspective on municipal water and wastewater capital investment and regulatory outlooks.