Operational Leadership

for Businesses Ready to Grow Adapt Thrive

With 20+ years of international experience,
I turn strategy into structured operations, lead change, and help you grow without chaos.

Operational growth and change leadership
for growing organisations

As an Operational Growth & Change Expert,
I bring clarity and structure to grow your business.

When we work together, you get clear growth plans, simpler ways of working, better control on performance and costs, and the confidence to move forward with your plans.

Does This Sound Familiar?

Your teams are working hard, but they’re out of step and lack direction.
You struggle to organise your priorities and are too busy working in the business that you don’t have time to work on the business.

 

Whether you want to grow your operations, become more sustainable, prepare for exit, investment, or just want to make sure you have the right operational backbone to support long-term development – that’s where I come in.

When I partner with you, we’ll turn broken processes, inconsistent delivery and uncertainty into predictable outcomes. Resulting in long-lasting change and resilience that scales with you.

Let’s talk about how we can work together.

What We’ll Achieve Together

Operational Growth

for Growing Scale-ups

  • Operationalise your strategy, build solid structures, processes, teams and rhythm of business so you grow your business, spot risks early and turn them into opportunities.

  • Get clear on your priorities and improve performance, delivery, and accountability, resulting in better team alignment and execution.

  • Prepare for scaling, new market, investment, or exit with a business that’s ready to grow.

Change & Transformation

for Established Organisations

  • Change delivery, operational excellence, and transformation support for complex environments.
  • Translate your strategy into practical programmes that improve performance, processes, and governance, resulting in measurable improvements.
  • Mobilise teams and sustain new behaviours by assessing people experience of change, defining clarity around roles and new ways of working, which means faster adoption and better decision-making.

Sustainability & Circularity

for SMEs

  • A practical plan you can implement to embed sustainable and circular practices, resulting in stronger resilience and future-readiness.

  • Identify waste, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement, resulting in cost reduction and smarter resource use.

  • Define and translate ESG basics into clear actions your team can follow, so your teams understand why and how to change.

What My Clients Say

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Hi, I’m Sahar – a hands-on operational growth and organisational change partner for founders and leaders who want to grow, transform, or build more sustainable operations.

With 20+ years of global experience across operations, change, and sustainability, I’ve worked with ambitious & impact driven scale-ups, international industry leaders and every size business in between.

Mentor at nlgroeit, helping start-up and scale-up founders to achieve operational excellence, develop a clear growth strategy
& leadership.

Recognised member of SER Topvrouwen (Netherlands Social-Economic Council Top Women organisation)

Partner at First Day Advisory Group, guiding organisations through change, growth, sustainability, and innovation.

The Ways You Can Work With Me

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Operational Growth Leadership & Fractional COO

Hands-on operational leadership to stabilise operations, strengthen ways of working, and enable scalable growth.

Programme Delivery & Change Execution

Leading complex programmes and change from plan to execution — fixing operating models, systems, and processes, and making sure change works in practice.

Founders & Leadership Workshops

Short, high-impact sessions to diagnose challenges, set priorities, and align on clear next steps.

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