Sara Martin Henderson

About Sara Martin Henderson

Sara Martin Henderson is a versatile and performance-driven innovation and design strategy leader leveraging a design management graduate curriculum focused on human-centered experience design employing frameworks in design thinking and service design. Sara actively pairs this multi-disciplinary design acumen with eight years of traditional business strategy experience in analyzing organizational effectiveness, identifying business gaps, and introducing process improvements to engage employees and elevate customer experience. She is well-versed in consulting and creating buy-in with executive stakeholders and decision makers on transformational human-centered end-to-end experience design solutions. Areas of expertise include innovation strategy, lean startup, entrepreneurship education and advisement, service design, design thinking, user research and analysis, iterative prototyping and implementation, cost savings, business process re-engineering, strategic optimization, customer and employee engagement, and culture change.

Experience

1. Adjunct Professor

   Georgia Tech School Of Electrical & Computer Engineering

   Aug 2024 — Present

Education

• Pace University

  Pforzheimer Honors College (New York, NY), Business Concepts, International Relations

  2003 — 2004

• Savannah College of Art and Design

  Master's Degree, Design Management

  2015 — 2016

• Grenoble Ecole de Management

  Marketing & Business Law

  2006 — 2006

• Université Stendhal Grenoble 3

  French Language, History & Culture

  2006 — 2006

• Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina

  Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Business Economics, Business Management Entrepreneuship & French

  2004 — 2007