DAVIDSON, NC, UNITED STATES, October 29, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Founder of Seed to Sanctuary Combines Decades of Corporate and Nonprofit Experience With Garden Design, Garden Coaching, and Corporate Keynote Speaking
Davidson, North Carolina – Sara Rubens is the Founder of Seed to Sanctuary, where she works as a corporate keynote speaker, author, and garden designer and garden educator, teaching clients how to grow their own food. With a career spanning nearly five decades across corporate America and the nonprofit sector, Sara has built a unique platform centered on the connection between personal growth, resilience, and the natural world. Her specialties include garden design and installation, garden coaching and food gardening education, and corporate keynote speaking and leadership development. Her work has been featured in Southern Living, Real Simple, Martha Stewart Living, and CBS and NBC-affiliated programs.
After a pivotal career transition in 2021, Sara launched Seed to Sanctuary to help individuals and organizations understand how the principles of gardening, including clarity, care, patience, and intentional growth, can transform the way people live and work. Through her signature keynote, The Garden-Centered Life, she inspires audiences to cultivate sustainable performance, stronger relationships, and greater well-being by creating the right conditions for growth. She combines storytelling, leadership insights, and lessons from the garden to address workplace challenges such as burnout, change, and disengagement. Her work supports corporate teams, leadership groups, wellness programs, and community organizations.
Sara is the author of A Love Letter for the Garden-Centered Life: 52 Weeks of Growing, Gathering, and Living a Well-Tended Life, and she specializes in garden design, raised-bed kitchen gardens, garden coaching, and sustainable living practices. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Speech Communication and Organizational Development from the University of Washington and is a certified garden coach through Gardenary, Inc.
Garden coaching is a growing field that helps homeowners plan, plant, and maintain productive gardens, especially edible gardens such as raised-bed kitchen gardens. Coaches teach practical skills like choosing the right location, preparing soil, selecting plants for the season, and managing pests naturally, so that clients can grow food with confidence. In corporate settings, nature-based themes have also gained attention as organizations look for fresh ways to address employee well-being, resilience, and burnout. Sara brings both worlds together, using hands-on gardening knowledge to illustrate leadership and personal growth.
Sara attributes her success to perseverance. Staying committed, pushing through challenges, and continuing to move forward when things are difficult have been key to achieving her goals. She also believes that waiting for perfection only slows progress.
The best career advice Sara has received is to avoid spending so much time making a living that she forgets to live. It has reminded her of the importance of balance, personal experiences, and making time for what brings purpose and fulfillment beyond work.
Her advice to young women entering her industry is to focus on one strategic effort at a time, giving each initiative full attention and seeing it through before moving on. Building on each accomplishment creates a strong foundation for continued growth.
In her Influential Women article, The Garden-Centered Life: Why the Smallest Seeds Often Create the Biggest Transformations, Sara explains that gardening is simply the classroom and that the real work is growing people. Drawing on her own experience of starting over after a long corporate career, she shares her PIVOT framework, five timeless principles for cultivating meaningful growth: planning, the right environment, consistent nurturing, respect for every season, and sharing the harvest.
The values most important to Sara are integrity and honesty. She believes in building trust through her actions, keeping her word, and treating others with respect; her relationships and family are central to her life.
From decades in corporate and nonprofit leadership to founding a business rooted in the wisdom of the garden, she has shown that meaningful growth happens one seed at a time. Through Seed to Sanctuary, Sara Rubens continues to help people and organizations grow with intention.
Learn More about Sara Rubens:
Through her Influential Women profile: https://influentialwomen.com/connect/sara-rubens or through Seed to Sanctuary, https://www.seedtosanctuary.com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/serubens/
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