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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
$300M
Capital raised
6
#1 Category hits
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Harvard BestsellerMcGraw-Hill PublishedFortune · Inc. · Economist23 Books · 100+ Countries$300M 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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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 $300M 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 six 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.
CNN Fox News CNBC Fortune Inc. Magazine The Economist KING 5 TV
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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