With over 30 years in the Global Energy industry, Sarah brings a blend of engineering insight, commercial experience, and strategic decision-making to complex business challenges. After gaining a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Aberdeen University, she began her career as an engineer with ConocoPhillips, working offshore and across operational roles before moving into project management, commercial leadership, strategy, and organisational change. This journey gives her a practical, real-world perspective on how decisions are actually made — and why they often go wrong.

She is an experienced Decision Analysis and Risk Management practitioner, specialising in business and asset strategy development, probabilistic numerical modelling, and decision support under uncertainty

Now Head of Decision & Risk at Optimus Plus (Aberdeen) Ltd, she helps Operations, Projects and leadership teams make better choices under uncertainty, balancing risk, value, and opportunity. Her work focuses on turning complexity into clarity, using Decision Quality thinking to support confident, high-impact outcomes in high-stakes environments.