Strategic Leadership Global (SLGlobal) is a woman-owned consultancy dedicated to helping organizations and governments drive transformative, sustainable results in the world’s most complex environments.
We partner with senior leaders to align vision with execution, navigating high-stakes organizational change while strengthening performance and accountability. Whether coaching high-impact individuals, advancing business growth opportunities, or building leadership teams capable of delivering results at scale, we bridge the gap between vision and results.
SLGlobal connects strategic vision with practical execution while strengthening leadership, performance, and accountability.
Navigating organizational change and complex operating environments.
Aligning vision with execution while strengthening performance and accountability.
Building leadership teams and organizations capable of delivering results at scale.
Sara Borodin is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Strategic Leadership Global (SLGlobal), a woman-owned small business dedicated to helping organizations and governments drive transformative, sustainable results in complex environments. At SLGlobal, Sara collaborates with private sector and non-profit organizations, providing rigorous research on foreign assistance trends, authoring policy assessments, and supporting business growth. Beyond her consulting work, she provides leadership coaching for professionals navigating career transitions or seeking advancement within their organizations.
Prior to founding SLGlobal, Sara served at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as a member of the Senior Executive Service. Most recently, Sara served as the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia where she provided policy and strategic direction for a $5 billion portfolio in 35 countries in Asia and the Pacific. Sara also served in other senior leadership positions at USAID including as Director for the Office of Middle East Affairs.
Sara is a Leadership Coach, having obtained her Executive Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University in 2023. As a recipient of coaching herself, Sara believes that everyone can benefit from coaching. She specializes in executive coaching, leadership development, and coaching careers in transition.
Prior to joining USAID, Sara worked for a foreign policy think tank and the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington D.C. She also worked as a program developer at a non-profit organization overseas.
Sara holds a Master’s degree in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University, and a Joint Honors Bachelor degree in Middle East Studies and Religious Studies from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Sara can be contacted at leadership@SLGlobal.org.
Jessica Zaman is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Strategic Leadership Global (SLGlobal), a woman-owned small business dedicated to helping organizations and governments drive transformative, sustainable results in complex environments.
Jessica served as a member of the Senior Foreign Service at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), where she built a global career advancing U.S. foreign policy and development priorities. She led overseas teams through periods of significant disruption—including war, political transitions, and humanitarian crises—while advancing governance, inclusive growth, and long-term development results. Her assignments included Afghanistan, the West Bank and Gaza, Thailand, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Mozambique, where she navigated significant policy shifts and volatile operating environments, building trusted relationships with key stakeholders, fostering adaptability and institutional resilience, and guiding diverse teams with clarity and care.
Most recently, Jessica served as USAID Deputy Mission Director for the West Bank and Gaza, leading the rebuilding and expansion of USAID’s staff, programs, and operational capacity. She oversaw a multisector portfolio and 100-person team in an extraordinarily complex environment, driving cross-sector results and humanitarian assistance delivery.
Her leadership in the West Bank and Gaza built on earlier work in Washington as Director of USAID’s Office of Middle East Affairs, where she helped initiate the restart of U.S. assistance to the Palestinian people and operationalize the Middle East Partnership for Peace Act, mobilizing significant resources and translating policy priorities into implementation.
She brings deep cross-cultural expertise and global perspective to her client engagements drawing on her experience in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Prior to joining USAID, she worked on Capitol Hill, with an international nonprofit organization, and in government relations. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
Jessica can be contacted at leadership@SLGlobal.org
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