From Fear to Fire: Sara Khalifa’s 5-Year Rise at alliant

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The Blue Room Podcast Career growth

In this Blue Room episode, host Lorraine Ladd sits down with Sara Khalifa, Director at alliant, to unpack her 5-year journey from hesitation to high performance. Sara shares how saying “yes” changed her career, the power of investing in people, leading with authenticity, and building high-performing teams.

Highlights:

  • Overcoming fear of failure and taking the leap
  • Rapid promotions and shifting from back-end to client-facing
  • Core values: investment in people and iron-sharpens-iron culture
  • Lessons for women in leadership: trust your gut and be yourself
  • Team wins, mentorship, and growing new leaders

Rapid Fire Fun:

  • Florence, Italy fan
  • Rodeo over Astros
  • Coffee forever, sneakers always
  • Whitney Houston “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” as her life soundtrack

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