Sara Riedel is the Founder and CEO of the KALA Leadership Collective, a leadership development platform built for professionals who want to modernize how they lead. After two decades in the life sciences industry — where she became a three-time award winner and built a globally recognized mentoring program — Sara identified two critical gaps: most organizations lacked proper leadership development, and as AI tools flooded the market, leaders had no structured way to use them. Sara developed her signature BUILD Method: a framework that layers AI adoption seamlessly into foundational leadership skills. Her educator-first approach ensures technology always serves human connection, not replaces it.