Jan 13 2025
Corporate executive, author, and philanthropist, Sarah Robb O’Hagan is one of Forbes “Most Powerful Women in Sports.”
Described by the media as everything from “Superwoman undercover” to “The Pied Piper of potential,” Sarah Robb O’Hagan is an executive, entrepreneur, author. She is also well-known for her keynote and motivational speaking. In her fast-paced presentations Sarah lays out a roadmap for becoming the most “extreme” version of yourself by playing to your unique passions and strengths and building highly-collaborative, focused, and successful teams and corporations. Sarah Robb O’Hagan is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Sarah Robb O’Hagan’s fees.
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Sarah is a rare blend of fierce businesswoman, passionate women’s advocate, high-energy innovator, and transformational CEO. She personally led the development of breakthrough innovation efforts including the turnaround of Gatorade from a declining sports drink into an innovative sports performance company, the Virgin Atlantic Airways-Austin Powers movie collaboration, Equinox’s transformation from a brick-and-mortar gym to an always-on, digital-first fitness business, and the turnaround and transformation of her current company EXOS amid the global pandemic. Sarah is also the founder of Extreme Living — a content platform designed to help individuals, teams, and organizations play to their highest potential.
As the CEO of EXOS, which counts 30% of the Fortune 100 among its clients, Sarah and her team work with C-Suite leadership teams, pro athletes, and elite military personnel to improve their performance in work, sport, and life. In addition, Sarah and her team lead the conversation of future high performance in the modern-day workplace — with research and new methodologies to help clients create cultures that reduce burnout while promoting productivity.
Robb O’Hagan has been named twice to Forbes magazine’s list of the “Most Powerful Women in Sports,” chosen as 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.
Though she is best known as an enterprising businesswoman, Sarah is also an engaged activist and philanthropist.
Previously, she served on Hillary Clinton’s US State Department Council to Empower Women and Girls through Sports. She is also a trustee of the Women’s Sports Foundation. 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. Additionally, she is an active member of the World Class New Zealand Network and 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.
Drawing on her decades of experience at some of the world’s most influential brands, Sarah shares practical, actionable takeaways in her keynotes. Whether you want Sarah to teach your audience how to get comfortable making bold moves, how to use failure to come back stronger, how to discover your most competitive playing field, or how to tune your mind and body for performance in a fast-paced, hybrid work environment, scheduling a pre-event Zoom call with Sarah and the MPG team is the best way to tailor her speech.
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When Sarah Robb O’Hagan began leading the turnaround of the $5 billion global Gatorade business amid a global recession, she was also preparing to give birth to her third child. Largely skipping her maternity leave, the combination of extreme hours and late-night childcare led her to experience an extreme and painful burnout that changed her perspective and her approach to work-life forever.
Years later at the start of the global pandemic when she became CEO of EXOS, the human performance company, she decided that a successful business turnaround while burning employees out was not an option. As a result, she partnered with performance science experts on her team, as well as some of the best organizational psychologists in the world, to design and implement a far more sustainable and enjoyable way of getting business results while working under immense pressure.
Sarah Robb O’Hagan has a strong track record of implementing game-changing innovation and growth strategies. This is why she knows that the only way to bring out the best in ourselves is to bring out the best in others.
With her decades-long career, predominantly in the sports and human performance industry, she has seen up close what epic teamwork looks like and how the common characteristics of great teams translate seamlessly from the world of sports to business.
With anecdotes from her days working for highly team-oriented corporate cultures (including Nike and Virgin), as well as insight into the strategies she used while transforming major global companies, she describes what it means to build and contribute to an “extreme team,” how to work through intergenerational workforce dynamics, and how to get proximate with those least like yourself to truly understand the unique gifts that individuals can contribute to your team.
Sarah Robb O’Hagan is no stranger to huge business headwinds. Stepping into her role as CEO of EXOS in early February 2020, she found herself not in the “dream job” she thought she had just accepted, but in the fight of her life leading a business that consisted of hundreds of brick-and-mortar gym sites around the world, which would be severely impaired by the global pandemic.
Despite the complexities surrounding them, she and her team kept the business afloat and evolved it into a far stronger company as they shifted their focus to tackling the next phase of its growth. Earlier in her career, she had successfully led the turnaround of the $5 billion Gatorade business amid a global recession after inheriting what the media called a “flaming mess.” So she knew how the business needed to adapt to succeed in the big, long climb ahead of her.
These successful turnarounds, as well as her decades in the human performance industry, have taught her innumerable lessons about succeeding in life and business, the most important being this: there is no way to get through life without experiencing adversity; knowing how to harness those obstacles to bounce back stronger is a skill everyone needs.
Sarah Robb O’Hagan is a powerhouse! Her strong on-stage presence and engaging delivery grabbed the audience immediately. – Helen J. Stoddard, Head of Global Events, Twitter
The audience was just so receptive and complimentary of her performance it was almost scary. The rest is history like they say. – Organizer, American Apparel Producers Network Conference
Sarah is definitely a rockstar. She was so easy to work with onsite, very flexible and easy going (which is always greatly appreciated) and just genuinely a very nice person. She was really generous with her time with the members and they all adored her. – American Bankers Association
She lit up the room like the 4th of July. The audience was just so receptive and complimentary of her performance it was almost scary. The rest is history like they say. To ask if we were happy with the talk is actually modest; I’d describe it more as ecstatic. – American Apparel
As a child, Sarah Robb O’Hagan dreamed she could be a champion. Her early efforts failed to reveal a natural superstar, but she refused to settle for average. Through dramatic successes and epic fails, she studied how extraordinary people in sports, entertainment and business set and achieve extremely personal goals. Sarah became an executive at Virgin Atlantic and Nike, and despite being fired twice in her twenties, she went on to become the global president of Gatorade and of Equinox—as well as a wife, mother, and endurance athlete.
In every challenging situation, personal or professional, individuals face the pressure to play it safe and conform to the accepted norms. But doing so comes with heavy costs: passions stifled, talents ignored, and opportunities squelched. The bolder choice is to embrace what Sarah calls Extreme You: to confidently bring all that is distinctive and relevant about yourself to everything you do.
Inspiring, surprising, and practical, Extreme You is her training program for becoming the best version of yourself.
