“Everyone says, ‘Don’t sweat the small stuff,’ but I think a lot of trust is earned in some of the small stuff rather than the big-ticket items.”
It’s a team first perspective rather than individual achievements for Sarah Lynch, whose humble, collaborative nature has been the key to her success spending more than 20 years devoted to public accounting at the same employer. “It’s really the people around me who have made me successful,” she says. Embracing the philosophy that “leaders don’t create followers; they create more leaders,” Lynch has led by example and with intention. She’s on the firm’s founding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) committee and supports causes such as Girls on the Run and gives back to St. Joseph Academy and Kent State University, which were her formative learning grounds. “I have a daughter who’s going to be 16. So empowering girls and women — that’s really what drives me.”
