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Sarah Robb O’Hagan

Game Changing Business Leader, Former CEO of EXOS, and Author

Described by the media as everything from “Superwoman undercover” to “The Pied Piper of potential,” Sarah Robb O’Hagan is an executive, entrepreneur, author, and founder of Extreme Living — a content platform designed to help individuals, teams, and organizations play to their highest potential. She is a leading global thought leader in the conversation around the future of work, having pioneered a new blueprint for workplace culture during her tenure as the CEO of EXOS, the human performance coaching company. This approach which she rolled out to Fortune 100 clients proved to not only increase productivity and performance but significantly reduce employee disengagement and burnout.Sarah is a rare blend of fierce businesswoman, cheerleading Mom, passionate women’s advocate, and high-energy innovator. In fast-paced presentations and in her book, Extreme You: Step Up, Stand Out, Kick Ass, Repeat, Sarah lays out a roadmap for becoming the most “extreme” version of yourself by playing to your own unique passions and strengths, and by building highly-collaborative, focused, and successful teams and corporations. Drawing on her decades of experience at some of the world’s most influential brands, she shares practical takeaways including how to get comfortable making bold moves and using failures in work or life to come back stronger, how to discover your most competitive playing field, and most importantly, how to tune your own mind and body for best performance in a fast-paced, hybrid work world so you can also empower the kind of teamwork that brings out the best in everyone else. She is exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau.Professionally, Sarah is widely regarded as a transformational leader having personally led groundbreaking innovations in her corporate career. Her achievements include reimagining Gatorade as a cutting-edge sports performance brand, orchestrating the iconic Virgin Atlantic Airways partnership with the Austin Powers movie, transitioning Equinox into a dynamic, always-on, digital-first fitness business, and navigating the successful transformation of her most recent company, EXOS, during the pandemic.She is also not afraid to talk about what she calls her “canyon of career despair” in her 20s, using major back-to-back failures to learn, to grow, and motivate herself forward to eventually lead a $5 billion global business by the age of 38. Sarah shares firsthand accounts of these peaks and valleys — pairing stories of firings with a behind-the-scenes look at Gatorade’s transformational turnaround under her stewardship — to illustrate what it truly takes to be successful. She teaches us why you learn more when you play for all or nothing, the importance of humility, and why you must always “play your own game.” She also taps into her own experiences with extreme burnout after giving birth to her third child in the midst of the Gatorade turnaround — and how it informed the work she did at EXOS, helping corporate clients and executives around the world to lead healthy high performing teams.Robb O’Hagan has been named twice to Forbes magazine’s list of the “Most Powerful Women in Sports,” named a “Woman to Watch” by Ad Age magazine, dubbed one of the “Most Creative People in Business” by Fast Company, and named to “40 Under 40” lists by Sports Business Journal, Crain’s Chicago Business, and Sports Goods Business. She also complements her operating experience with board service, having served on the board of Strava, as well as her current role as an independent director for JetBlue Airways.Sarah is a passionate advocate for an active lifestyle and believes the lessons learned from sports and fitness can be applied to improve performance in the workplace. She has served on Hillary Clinton’s U.S. State Department Council to Empower Women and Girls through Sports and is a trustee of the Women’s Sports Foundation. She is an active member of the World Class New Zealand Network, as she remains committed to helping the country’s development, international competitiveness, and economic growth. In 2016, she was awarded the Sir Peter Blake Trust Award for outstanding leadership, and in 2018 she was named a “WISE” Woman of the Year.

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Extreme You: Step Up. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat.

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Sarah Robb O'Hagan on finding your "Extreme You"

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How to Kick Ass

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