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Sarah Harlan

Hometown

Willoughby, Ohio

Based In

Cincinnati, Ohio

THE PLACE THAT MARKED HIM

The Northeast coast: Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island. Mountains and water in the same frame, a slower and more intentional pace she keeps returning to. The Midwest keeps her rooted. The East Coast has her heart.

WHAT HE KEEPS CLOSE

Her relationships: family and friends that have had immeasurable impact on her life and feel like home.

THE LINE HE LIVES BY

The detail you remember is the one that wins the relationship.

Sarah is the senior brand strategist whose work touches more accounts than anyone else at the agency. Her soft-spoken demeanor is not to be mistaken for passiveness. Her strengths are rooted in a strong, strategically creative perspective that consistently shows up in her work with her clients, across strategic playbooks and campaigns, editorial content development, PR management, and copywriting. Clients trust her because she’s a genuine listener who shows up authentically and applies that same integrity to solving complex industry problems. That is not a process. That is a personality. Hers happens to scale.

Growing up in a military family gave Sarah an early and enduring understanding of what service actually looks like. Not as an obligation, but as a standard of care for the people around you. That value runs through everything: her personal relationships, her professional ones, and the way she shows up for every client she works with. It also made her the kind of person who notices what others miss. When it came time to choose a path, a creative field was never a question, only the shape of it. Majoring in marketing and minoring in graphic design at Xavier University gave her exactly the right container: rigorous enough to sharpen her thinking, open enough to let her make things. The agency model was a natural fit for the same reason. It asks for both the analytical and the artistic, often in the same breath, and that particular tension is where she does her best work. Outside the office, you’ll find her at a fitness class or on a tennis or pickleball court, at a concert, stationed at one of a few trusted coffee shops, or deep in whatever pop culture moment is currently worth paying attention to. She’s also an avid collector of physical media: books, vinyl, DVDs (heavily skewed toward rom-coms), magazines. The kind of person who still believes some things are worth owning.

People who underestimate Sarah’s range usually do it once.

SPARK. SHAPE. SCALE
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