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Discover What You Really Want, Leverage What You Already Bring & Create Your Strategic Path to What’s Next.
Career Breakthrough is a 4-step coaching framework uniquely designed to help you learn proven techniques that turn your work and life experience, strengths and talents into meaningful careers that feel not just aligned, but provide more freedom, more aligned income, and more opportunity to reach your defined career.
You’ve built the experience.
You’ve proven you’re capable.
You have the skills, the reputation, the network and a lot to show for it.
But somewhere along the way, the path forward got less clear.
You want more flexibility, but don't want to sacrifice income or ambition.
You could pursue a leadership role - but are thinking - is that actually what I want?”
You know you want more but you have no idea what.
You’re unsure how to align what you’re good at with a career that feels more soul-aligned.
Starting something new sounds exciting...and terrifying.
Your experience isn't just your history. It's your leverage.
If this resonates, you’ve landed in the right place.
I’m here to help you:
Assess what's keeping you stuck.
Uncover what you truly want and why.
Elevate what makes you valuable.
Expand what you believe is possible.
Map out possible pathways available to you.
Strategize around your natural leverage.
Stay accountable when resistance shows up.
Activate the plan and start creating evidence.
Celebrate your wins, every step of the way
Let me guess…
You wake up on Monday morning already tired of thinking about work.
Not necessarily because you hate your job. In fact, part of what makes it so frustrating is that you’ve worked hard to get there.
You’re experienced, capable, reliable. People count on you.
But deep down, something feels off.
MAYBE YOU FEEL….
◆ Underused. You know you have more to offer than what your current role is asking of you.
◆ Under-recognized. You’re doing good work, but the opportunities, visibility, income, or influence don’t seem to reflect what you actually bring.
◆ Restless. You keep wondering, Is this really what I’m going to be doing for the next five or ten years?
◆ Trapped by practicality. You want something different, but you have a salary, responsibilities, benefits, children, aging parents, a mortgage—or simply a life that cannot be casually disrupted.
◆ Unclear about what “next” actually is. You know you want change, but you don’t want to throw away everything you’ve already built to get there.
◆ Worried the world is changing faster than you are. AI. Restructuring. Layoffs. New technology. Entire industries shifting. You’re wondering where your experience fits—and whether your skills will continue to matter.
◆ Quietly questioning your confidence. You know you’re capable, but after years inside the same environment, it can be surprisingly difficult to see your own value objectively.
◆ Frustrated that you’re still proving yourself. At this stage of your career, you thought you would feel more established, more financially secure, more influential—or at least more certain.
◆ Pulled in too many directions. You want meaningful work and ambition—but you also want time, freedom, relationships, travel, creativity, family, and a life outside your job.
◆ Afraid of making the wrong move. Staying feels limiting. Leaving feels risky. And doing nothing for another year is starting to feel like a decision of its own.
What if ……
➜ You knew exactly what you wanted next and why it was the right direction for you.
➜ You could clearly see and articulate the strengths, expertise, relationships and experience that make you valuable.
➜ You could see where your experience might take you next — including opportunities and pathways you hadn’t considered before.
➜ You knew which direction deserved your time and energy because you had real evidence behind the decision.
➜ You had a personalized 90-day roadmap showing you exactly how to move forward.
Maybe you’re thinking………
“I know I’m capable of more. I just don’t know what the smartest next move is.” Or “I don’t want to start over. I want everything I’ve already built to finally work harder for me.”
You’re not alone! I’ve been there.
So many career-driven women hit a wall or question their career at some point.
The key is figuring out how to move forward without loosing everything you’ve built so far.
That’s why I designed Career Breakthrough.
More than reflection.
More than advice.
Career Breakthrough offers a unique approach by combining coaching and strategic advisory.
The coaching helps you uncover what you want, challenge assumptions, build confidence and make decisions that are actually yours.
The strategic advisory goes further.
I’ll review evidence, identify patterns, pressure-test possibilities, surface leverage you may be underusing, and help you think critically about opportunity, positioning and next moves.
You won’t just be asked good questions.
We’ll use evidence to build better answers.
Together, we will look at what you’ve already built - your experience, strengths, reputation, goals, responsibilities, and uncover what you want now — and I’ll help you turn all of it into a personalized, actionable strategy.
This isn’t just a series of conversations where I ask good questions and send you off to figure it out. The difference between traditional coaching and Career Breakthrough is:
I coach you.
I advise you.
I analyze what you already bring.
I help you see opportunities you may be missing.
I challenge your assumptions.
And together, we build a personalized path forward that makes sense for your actual life.
Because at this stage of your career, you have too much experience — and too much at stake — for generic advice.
You want to know:
How do I create a career where I’m recognized and paid for the value I actually bring, doing work that feels meaningful, with real options, greater freedom, and confidence about where I’m headed next?
That’s the breakthrough.
Why This Work Is Personal to Me
Hello, I'm SarahHi, I’m Sarah — a strategist, coach and award-winning global leader with more than 15 years of experience leading teams and designing and managing multimillion-dollar workforce and international development programs focused on women’s economic empowerment, human rights and expanding opportunity. My work has included shaping U.S. government initiatives supporting women’s economic security, developing programs for women entrepreneurs and women in the workforce, and working with leaders and partners around the world.
Through those experiences - and through navigating my own career pivot - I learned that moving forward rarely means starting over. More often, it means seeing the value of what you’ve already built and learning how to use it differently. Today, through my coaching, advisory work and speaking engagements, I help accomplished women uncover that value, get clear on what they really want, and turn their experience, strengths and expertise into a strategic path toward greater opportunity, income, impact and freedom.
I look forward to meeting you and helping you find your own unique pathway of opportunity and self-defined success. -Sarah
In Career Breakthrough, I’m going to show you exactly how to…
★ Articulate your value without sounding rehearsed or self-promotional
★ Identify the strengths and experience that genuinely differentiate you
★ Communicate with more authority and confidence
★ Create stronger professional visibility with the people who matter
★ Build and reactivate relationships strategically
★ Delegate and protect your time for higher-value work
★ Make better career decisions without endlessly overthinking them
★ Test new possibilities before taking unnecessary financial or career risk
★ Understand where AI and changing workplace expectations may affect your skills—and where they may create new opportunities
★ Create tangible momentum every week toward what’s next
Career Breakthrough
Is a four-month private coaching + strategic advisory experience for ambitious mid-career women who know they’re ready for more but aren’t sure what comes next.
More than traditional career coaching, this is a space for clarity, leverage, strategy and movement.
It’s designed for women who want more than a résumé refresh or another list of things they “should” do.
You want to understand what you really want, recognize the value and leverage you already bring, explore where that could take you, and build a strategic path toward greater opportunity, income, meaning and freedom.
You don’t need to start over.
You need to understand what you’re building from.
Career Breakthrough
Discover What YOU Really Want.
Leverage What YOU Already Bring.
Build YOUR Strategic Path to What’s Next.
What Clients Are Saying
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"If you want more than a regular coach, if you’re looking for a thoughtful, meaningful, grounding coaching, one that lets you identify how you want to feel professionally in a new job, what ignites your power, what makes you feel energized, and what are your real talents, look for Sarah. I guarantee her knowledge is so deep it stays with you and comes back to you over and over again as you transit your new carrier path.”
- María
Mid-Career International Professional
If the next five years looked exactly the same as the last five, would you want them?
Have you reached the point where the current path no longer feels sustainable, satisfying, or aligned with where you want your life and career to go?
Career Breakthrough is right for you if…
✓ You’ve built substantial experience but no longer feel certain that your current path fits who you are now.
✓ You’ve plateaued — or can already see the next five years and know you want something different.
✓ You want to earn more while doing work that feels more meaningful.
✓ You want greater flexibility, authority, autonomy or freedom without shrinking your ambition.
✓ You’re considering leadership advancement, a career transition, consulting, entrepreneurship, a portfolio career — or something you haven’t fully named yet.
✓ You know you have valuable experience but struggle to see how all the pieces fit together.
✓ You want someone who will coach you through the internal questions and think strategically with you about the external ones.
✓ You’re ready to stop circling the question of “what’s next?” and begin creating real evidence for it.
Career Breakthrough is a four-month private coaching and strategic advisory experience designed to help you move from uncertainty to a clear, well-supported career direction.
Together, we’ll bring structure to the questions you’ve been carrying, surface the value you may be underusing, and translate what you already have into a practical path toward greater leadership, opportunity, income, meaning, and freedom.
The work is highly personalized, combining reflection, strategic analysis, real-world testing, and ongoing support so you’re not simply thinking about what’s next—you’re actively building toward it.
Are you ready to…
✨✓ Have a personalized Career Dashboard and 90-Day Strategic Roadmap to guide your next chapter - whether that means leadership, new business opportunities, or a big career shift.
✨✓ See the full value of what you already bring through your personalized Career Leverage Profile™ - identifying the expertise, experience, strengths, relationships, credibility, results, and distinctive combinations you’ve spent years building.
✨✓ Discover your personal Career Compass and use it to set a career goal that actually reflects what you want next.
✨✓ Release the visibility blocks holding you back and stand powerfully in your value and worth.
✨✓ Define your career non-negotiables and confidently stand behind them.
✨✓ Raise your expectations for the income, opportunity, freedom, impact, and life available to you.
✨✓ Position yourself so the right people understand your value —> what you’re capable of, what differentiates you, and what you should be considered for next.
✨✓ Build your personalized Career Leverage Roadmap™ to increase your agency and accelerate your next move without working harder or starting over.
✨✓ Get the strategic feedback, support, and accountability to turn an evidence-based roadmap into meaningful action and real momentum.
✨✓ Step fully into your power and your worth AND create a career that feels beautifully, unmistakably YOU.
Your Invitation
Join me in this transformative, high-touch 4-month coaching program.
In Career Breakthrough you will:
💡 Pinpoint what’s keeping you stuck so you can stop wasting time and energy fixing the wrong problem.
💡 Get clear on what you really want and uncover the strengths, experience, and value you already have to create it—without giving away all your time and energy.
💡 Break free from limiting expectations and redefine what’s possible for your income, career, freedom, and life. Turn “I don’t know what’s next” into multiple realistic pathways toward greater opportunity, meaning, and freedom.
💡 Cut through the overthinking and choose the path with the strongest potential for the future you want. Replace exhausting busywork with a personalized roadmap that focuses your time, money, and energy where they can create the greatest return.
💡 Move beyond fear and procrastination with expert guidance, accountability, and support that keeps meaningful action moving forward.
💡 Turn progress into lasting momentum with proven wins, greater self-trust, and a clear 90-day plan for what comes next.
How the Process Works
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Phase 1: REVEAL
Assess • Uncover • Elevate
Together, we clarify what you really want, what matters now, and what your next chapter needs to honor - while uncovering the strengths, expertise, experience, relationships, credibility and results you already have to leverage.
Includes your Career Compass and development of your personalized Career Leverage Profile™.
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Phase 2: EXPAND
Explore • Map • Test
Expand what you believe is possible for your career, leadership, income and life. Identify 2–3 realistic, high-potential pathways that build from what you already bring.
Begin testing those possibilities against real-world information so you can see which opportunities deserve a closer look.
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Phase 3: STRATEGIZE
Evaluate • Choose • Design
Evaluate your strongest pathways against your priorities, leverage and real-world evidence, then confidently choose the direction you want to pursue.
From there, create your personalized Career Leverage Roadmap™ around the positioning, relationships, opportunities and highest-value actions most likely to move your career goal forward.
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Phase 4: ACTIVATE
Move • Own • Adjust
Put your strategy into action with coaching, accountability and strategic support—building visibility, strengthening relationships, testing opportunities and creating tangible momentum.
Track what’s working, adjust as you learn, and leave with an updated personalized Career Leverage Roadmap™ and clear 90-day priorities for continuing forward.
What’s Included:
Structured methodology. Personalized pacing.
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Defined between-session voice/text support
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Career Leverage Profile™
A personalized analysis of the expertise, experience, strengths, relationships, credibility, results and distinctive combinations you’ve spent years building and how those assets could become leverage for what comes next.
You’ll receive a personalized Personal Leverage Strategic Brief translating that evidence into a clear strategic picture of what you’ve built.
Personal Leverage Roadmap™
A personalized career dashboard and 90-day strategic operating roadmap that brings together what matters, what you bring, where you’re going and how you’ll move forward.
Because clarity alone isn’t the breakthrough. Using it is.
I Know What It Feels Like to Want More
There came a point in my career when, on paper, things looked pretty good.
I was doing really meaningful work, traveling the globe and making a real impact in the world. I had strong experience, leadership responsibilities, and a career I had spent years building. But I also wanted more. A promotion AND more freedom at work AND more control over my time so I could actually be there for my kids’ games and the parts of life that mattered outside of work. I wanted to grow and advance, but I wanted that next step to happen on my terms.
And if I’m being truthful, I also knew I was playing smaller than I was capable of.
I could feel that there was more potential in me, but I wasn’t completely sure what to do with it. I didn’t have some perfectly mapped-out next chapter. I just knew, deep down, that something had to change.
What I did not expect was to have that decision accelerated for me.
The international development world I had built my career around changed dramatically, and suddenly the path I had assumed would always be there looked very different. I found myself confronting the same questions so many women face in mid-career: What now? What still fits? What do I want to keep? What am I ready to let go of? And am I really going to start something new at this point in my life?
Starting Blue Lotus Global required me to take a much closer look at myself than I expected. I had to recognize the skills, experience and strengths I had spent years developing and stop treating them as ordinary simply because they came naturally to me. I also had to admit that there were things I didn’t know yet and that I too needed help to get started. So I hired a coach!
That part was surprisingly freeing. I stopped spinning my wheels and realized I didn’t need to already know everything. I needed to know what I was exceptionally good at, trust that foundation, and be willing to learn the rest.
I learned new skills. I made mistakes. I stretched far outside what had once felt familiar. And somewhere along the way, I stopped thinking of reinvention as starting over.
I began to see it as building from everything I had already become.
That experience changed the way I think about careers, potential and what is possible in mid-life.
I’m not too old to try something new. I don’t have to choose between ambition and having a life. And I don’t have to have every answer before I take the next step.
I just have to be willing to see my own value clearly enough to begin.
Sarah Simpson Sunderlin
International Career & Leadership Advisor + Coach
Founder & Principal Consultant of Blue Lotus Global LLC
17+ Years Global Leadership · Women’s Economic Empowerment · Workforce Strategy · Award-Winning Leadership · International Speaker.
Hi, I’m Sarah, I help accomplished women who know they want more from their career but don't know what that looks like get clear on the work that actually fills them up and build a real plan to get there.
I’m a strategist, coach and award-winning global leader with more than 17 years of experience helping people, programs and organizations navigate change, expand opportunity and turn complex goals into practical strategies.
Before founding Blue Lotus Global, I built my career across the U.S. Department of Labor, international development and workforce policy. I led teams and multimillion-dollar initiatives across Africa, Asia and Latin America, designed programs focused on women’s economic empowerment and workforce participation, and contributed to U.S. government efforts advancing women’s economic security. My work has taken me into partnerships with governments, international organizations, employers, educators and community leaders around the world.
That experience taught me something I carry into every coaching relationship: your career is rarely defined by one title or one path. The strengths, relationships, credibility, knowledge and lived experience you accumulate over time often hold far more value than you realize. The challenge is learning how to recognize that value, trust it, and use it strategically.
I understand that personally, too. I’ve navigated my own major career pivots, built a business from the ground up, and reimagined what meaningful work could look like in my next chapter. I’m also a mom, devoted rescue-dog mom, and someone who has practiced yoga for more than 20 years. So I believe deeply that the best career decisions have to work not just on paper, but in the context of a real life.
My work has been recognized with an Excellence in Leadership Award, a Gears of Government Award, multiple U.S. Department of Labor Secretary’s Honor Awards, and recognition for contributions to the Women’s Economic Security Strategy.
Today, I bring together leadership experience, workforce expertise, global perspective and strategic coaching to help accomplished women get clear on what they want next, recognize the value they already hold, elevate their superpower and create a path toward greater opportunity, income, impact and freedom.