Sarah Heffron is an operating model strategist and senior operational leader with more than 20 years’ experience, helping CEOs and leadership teams see how their organisation actually works and understand what it genuinely means to redesign it for AI. She has designed and led operating model, governance and commercial transformation programmes across global product operations, multinational client business units and enterprise revenue models, working at the scale where a change to one process ripples through hundreds of people and multiple markets.
In 2026 she completed the MIT programme in Applied Agentic AI for Organisational Transformation. She writes The Operating Model Dispatch and is a named contributor to the forthcoming UKAI trade association’s national industry guide on AI’s impact on people.
My experience working with Sarah was excellent. She really understood the complexities of the payments business at a global scale. She was instrumental in bringing many cross functional teams together and lead key initiatives to improve Visa's overall ability to deliver. She has a keen eye for detail and understands true product lifecycle management from end to end. She is a great team player and is willing to work through the complexities to find solutions which deliver better outcomes. I would highly recommend Sarah !!
Sarah is a talented operational and transformation leader. She is adept at understanding strategic and operational challenges, identifying opportunities and delivering outcomes. Sarah is a great executive communicator.
Sarah Heffron is an operating model strategist and senior operational leader with more than 20 years’ experience, helping CEOs and leadership teams see how their organisation actually works and understand what it genuinely means to redesign it for AI. She has designed and led operating model, governance and commercial transformation programmes across global product operations, multinational client business units and enterprise revenue models, working at the scale where a change to one process ripples through hundreds of people and multiple markets.
In 2026 she completed the MIT programme in Applied Agentic AI for Organisational Transformation. She writes The Operating Model Dispatch and is a named contributor to the forthcoming UKAI trade association’s national industry guide on AI’s impact on people.
My experience working with Sarah was excellent. She really understood the complexities of the payments business at a global scale. She was instrumental in bringing many cross functional teams together and lead key initiatives to improve Visa's overall ability to deliver. She has a keen eye for detail and understands true product lifecycle management from end to end. She is a great team player and is willing to work through the complexities to find solutions which deliver better outcomes. I would highly recommend Sarah !!
Sarah is a talented operational and transformation leader. She is adept at understanding strategic and operational challenges, identifying opportunities and delivering outcomes. Sarah is a great executive communicator.