The Person Behind the Practice
About Sara Branch
Sara Branch is a networking coach, speaker, and the founder of Branch Consulting Group in Marietta, Georgia. Since 2015, she has taught solopreneurs, franchisees, and salespeople how to turn face-to-face networking into a repeatable source of business.
My story
I've spent more than 25 years in corporate sales, training, and development. I've built and delivered training for employees and customers at large corporations and government agencies, and my clients have included Franklin Covey, Lockheed Martin, and Kaiser Permanente among others. I taught sales proposal writing and coached sales presentations.
I was also a sales manager, and I saw the same mistake over and over. Salespeople confuse socializing with networking. I call it netsocializing. It feels productive, it fills your calendar, and it doesn't fill your pipeline. That's the difference between hoping and hunting, and it's why I built my work around strategy instead of small talk.
What I do
- Connections Change Everything®: my live, interactive networking course, with homework you apply at real events.
- Connect. 6. People.: a quarterly in-person event where tables of 6 people rotate through small, guided conversations.
- Workshops: How to use AI to Define and Locate your ideal customer and referral partner.
- Corporate training, licensing, and franchise training: a proven networking curriculum for your team or franchise system.
- One-to-one and group coaching: highly customized for the individual or group of the Connections Change Everything content.
Speaking
I speak to sales teams, franchise systems, and business groups. My signature topics are:
- Why Most Networking Fails (and What to Do Instead): why busy networkers don't get business, and the strategy that changes it.
- The Value of Human Contact: why in-person connection produces results that online interaction struggles to match.
- The Skeleton Method: How to improve online meeting effectiveness.
To book me: https://tidycal.com/m5dwo2z
Franchise ownership
I feel so strongly about the value of networking that in 2022 I bought a Network In Action franchise. BizNetXXI in Roswell GA meets monthly and focuses on the business success of the members. We have fixed agendas that focus on skill development.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Journalism and Advertising, University of Georgia. Associate degree in Liberal Arts, Emory University.
Sara Branch at a glance
- Title
- Founder and president, Branch Consulting Group
- Founded
- 2015
- Based in
- Marietta, Georgia (Cobb County), serving metro Atlanta and virtual nationwide
- Corporate address
- 3162 Johnson Ferry Rd. Suite 409
Marietta, GA 30062 - Experience
- 25+ years in corporate sales, training, and development
- Clients have included
- Franklin Covey, Lockheed Martin, Kaiser Permanente
- Creator of
- Connections Change Everything® and Connect. 6. People.
Ready to stop hoping and start hunting? Book a conversation: https://tidycal.com/m5dwo2z