With over 20 years of experience leading communications for global brands across consumer tech, retail, and enterprise software, Sarah McKinney brings a battle-tested breadth of perspective—earned across sectors, leadership styles, and business moments that matter. From IPOs and global transformations to crisis response and high growth at scale, Sarah’s diversified career helps her move quickly, communicate clearly, and lead with both poise and precision.

Most recently, as Vice President, Head of Corporate Communications at SharkNinja, she established the company’s communications function, led its successful public listing on the New York Stock Exchange, and played a key role in elevating its brand on a global scale. Before that, she held communications leadership roles at Ford Motor Company, Aptiv, and BlackBerry, leading communications through business transformations, IPOs, M&As, and corporate repositioning efforts.

Sarah also brings deep media relations, crisis and brand experience from her time at Walmart, IBM and three of the world’s top PR agencies—Edelman, Ketchum, and Porter Novelli—where she helped develop and execute award-winning campaigns for companies such as Kodak, Hewlett-Packard, QUALCOMM, E&J Gallo Winery, McAfee Security and more. 

Sarah holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications with a Minor in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Based in Greater Boston, she is passionate about helping companies and leaders craft their extraordinary story.