Unleashing the best within you and your organization.
Our Services
Today’s leaders must navigate a fast-paced, ever-changing and demanding reality at work. Den Besten Group uses experiential and action-based approaches to teach leaders to become more resourceful, grounded, and wise.
Den Besten Group partners with individuals and organizations to achieve meaningful and sustainable results through our core services of coaching, leadership development programs, executive team solutions, and HR advisory.
As a proven leader at building sustainable leadership capacity and elevating the performance of leadership at all levels within an organization, Den Besten Group's highly strategic, practical, and customer-focused approach has brought lasting positive change to a wide variety of industries, including biotechnology, high-tech, financial services, construction, engineering, academia, and non-profit.
ABOUT Us
Sara Den Besten is the founder and managing partner of Den Besten Group, with expertise in executive team solutions, coaching, leadership development, culture and engagement, and HR advisory. Orienting to business strategy and key objectives, Sara specializes in the positive alignment of leaders and teams so they can focus their maximum energy on winning together.
With a life-long passion for unleashing the best in people, and catalyzing collective excellence within organizations, Sara has over 20 years of career experience as a leader in human resources and communications, and as an independent consultant and coach.
As Chief People Officer at Generation Bio, Sara established foundational people practices and infrastructure to rapidly grow a people-centric learning organization from 20 to nearly 200 people, and from stealth stage to a publicly traded company.
Sara also spent more than a decade at Genzyme, and then Sanofi, driving leadership and organization development, and reimagining the role of patient advocacy in rare diseases and patient-centered medicine. As principal of her own firm, Sara provided executive coaching and leadership development services for global clients across multiple industries.
Sara earned a B.A. in Psychology from Bucknell University, completed the Greater Boston Executive Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, and won a world championship as a member of the U.S. National Women’s Rowing Team.