Sara R. Dial

Sara R. Dial
President and CEO
Sara Dial & Associates, Inc.
6404 E. Gainsborough
Scottsdale, Arizona 85251


Since 1996, Ms. Dial has been President and CEO of Sara Dial & Associates, a business consulting firm specializing in government relations and economic and community development. She has represented many notable clients in their business expansion efforts including Google, Facebook, Fisher Investments and Comcast Cable. She has also recently led several high profile economic development initiatives in Arizona including the creation and implementation of the newly created Discovery Triangle and the effort to restructure Arizona’s statewide economic development delivery model.

From1993-1996, Ms. Dial served as the director of the Arizona Department of Commerce and a member of Governor Fife Symington’s cabinet. From 1991-1993, she was the finance director at the department. Prior to her work in government, Ms. Dial worked in the investment banking industry, focusing on municipal finance. She is a graduate of Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations.

Ms. Dial is active in the Greater Phoenix community and has served on or chaired over 25 community boards and commissions. She was ranked in the Top Ten Most Influential Women and “40 Under 40” lists in the Phoenix Business Journal. She received the “Spirit of the Children” award from Childhelp USA for her contributions to abused children in Arizona. She was honored with the inaugural John and Sandra Day O’Connor award from the United Methodist Outreach Ministries Mother’s Day Gala as a distinguished working mother impacting the business and philanthropic community as well as her own family.

She has been married to her husband, Patrick, for 15 years and has three children.



 

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