Connect India offers a wide range of Leadership & Learning programs both in the UK and India that are driven and led by young British Indians with the aim of empowerment and positive engagement with their local and global communities.

Through its programs and network, Connect India provides a platform where members can explore the diversity and relationship of the UK and India ranging from the arts to sport to social enterprise – asking questions that drive discussion, reflection and action.

Brand Consultant and Web Designer/Developer | Connect India (October 2010 – Current)

The founders of CuriousLeaders collaborate closely with a networked team of highly experienced executive leadership development facilitators, business coaches, new product development and innovation specialists, brand storytellers, media relations trainers, and cultural transformation advisors.

Brand Consultant and Web Designer/Developer | Curious Leaders (January 2011 – Current)

Referral from Margaret O’Keeffe and Matthias Gruendler, Co-Founders and Managing Directors, Curious Leaders:

Thank you for your brilliant design, excellent advice and enormous generosity of spirit in the re-launch of the Curious Leaders website. We are both overwhelmed and grateful to have had the great fortune to receive your magical combination of professional acumen and love in this project. It has been an extraordinary experience partnering with you. Thank you for your unbelievable patience and for making us laugh at all hours of the night.

As an Author, Alexei is due to publish a series of three ‘Life Books’:

1. Doves and Eagles: Surviving the Life of Business and the Business of Life
2. Rare Alchemy: The Real Truth behind Exceptional Talent
3. Rise of the Fallen: Personal Victories snatched from the Jaws of Failure

Publicist | Alexei Orlov, UK (March 2010 – Current)

• Managing design and content integration for Alexei Orlov’s online web-based marketing
• Identified Illustrator for Alexei’s upcoming book and co-ordinated art work.

Referral from Alexei Orlov, Orlov & Partners – helping Companies ‘conversation’ their Brands’ – a unique way to co create and discover the hidden power of their brands:

I have known Sarah Kuehne for the best part of 14 years both as a work colleague and most fortunately, also as my friend and my advisor.

Sarah is in a word, exceptional.

The world is full of clever, talented people. Then there are the few – they, who have complete integrity. Sarah is such a person.

If she says she will do something, you can bank it. If she advises you, you know there has been a great deal of thought.

If you share confidentiality, you know you are safe.

Sarah is an exceptionally balanced and kind person, who is nevertheless quite capable of having a defining and clear alternative view if she believes in it.

If I only had one person in all the world to chose from as my business partner, who would that be?

Sarah Kuehne, that’s who. Need I say more?

Associate Director | iPartner India, UK (January 2009 – Current)

Referral from Bina Rani, Founder and CEO, iPartner India:

Sarah Kuehne is a rare individual who successfully combines all that is honest and good in this world with fearsome professional skills.  I pursued her relentlessly to join us as Associate Director at iPartner India as I realised early on that she had the skills, creativity, passion and vision to transform  a ‘concept’ into the credible brand that iPartner  India is today.  She has an extra ordinary ability to connect with and inspire all our stake holders, from partners and beneficiaries on the ground in India who deliver our projects right up to donors and philanthropists who fund our work in the UK and India. She is an integral and valued member of our team who is equally comfortable developing strategy as she is working closely with the printer to get that last colour combination or word exactly right. She has a remarkable work ethic and an incredible attitude to life.

Sarah started by creating our very first marketing brochure and went on to create our entire range of high quality communication and fundraising material including regular newsletters. She also led and managed a series of highly successful events to create brand awareness and raise funds. Her singular touch with helping to create films and documentaries of our work has been appreciated in many forums. She also embraces all new forms of technology and social media with ease and defines our online brand engagement strategies. No task is too daunting for her and with her keen eye for detail; she has exceeded expectations every single time.

Going forward, I can see Sarah carving a special niche for herself within iPartner, leading us into unchartered territory dreaming, setting  and achieving new goals whilst staying humane and firmly rooted in reality.

Please Take One is a call to lead a more generous life, to maximize our life not our income. There are chapters on happiness, enough, poverty in the UK (truly shocking), global poverty (how to help the bottom billion), and about the threat to our environment.

Web Marketing Consultant | Please Take One*, UK | 2010

• Designed and facilitated content integration for Please Take One* online web-based marketing.

Referral from Mike Dickson, Founder of Whizz-Kidz, Author of Please Take One* and Philanthropy Advisor:

Sarah is one of those rare people who has both remarkable creative energy and strong organizational skills. She has an in depth knowledge of charities and philanthropy, is very up to date with the latest social media marketing ideas, and has organized many extremely successful events. She has an infectious enthusiasm and the ability to lead and inspire anyone, and everyone!

The Great Generation creates volunteering opportunities in developing countries and works closely with local organisations to identify community-driven projects tackling real needs. www.thegreatgeneration.org

Consultant | The Great Generation, UK (January 2009 – October 2010)

• Managed external communications and brand awareness.
• Facilitated the design, production and dissemination of all promotional material for recruitment.
• Nurtured relations with existing volunteers through various marketing initiatives.

International Agenda is a strategy consultancy based in London and employs a small group of senior people who work with local and global leaders to achieve long term value. www.international-agenda.com

Social Media Strategy Consultant | International Agenda, UK (Mar 2009 – May 2010)

Social Media Workshop Facilitator, Dubai (May 2010)

• Delivered a 3-day workshop in Dubai to the Head of State, marketing and communications team.
• Instructed on best practice in the use of social media as a powerful tool for brand communication.
• Devised the social media strategy to maximise user engagement and interactivity.
• Designed an operating model to ensure more timely updates and engaging content.

The Funding Network has been described as the UK’s 1st public, open giving circle – a marketplace for charities and donors passionate about social change. www.thefundingnetwork.org.uk

Project Director | The Funding Network, London UK 2008-2009

Project Co-ordinator | The Funding Network, London UK 2005-2008

Events:

• Managed and co-ordinated fundraising events raising £40,000+ per each event.
• Directed event logistics from venue selection to completion.
• Streamlined event administration processes to boost efficiency.
• Played a leading role in the launch and subsequent success of TFN in Oxford and South Africa.
• Instrumental in bringing the Youth version of The Funding Network (YTFN) concept to fruition.
• Co-ordinated the full YTFN launch from brainstorming session to successful implementation.

Marketing:

• Developed and designed interactive e-invites and newsletter to raise the brand profile and increase attendance at events.

PR:

• Engaged successfully with Board of Directors, companies, Trusts and high net worth individuals.
• Successfully sustained long term relationships with donors whilst initiating and securing new donors.

Awards:

• YTFN was awarded the prestigious national Third Sector Excellence Awards Ceremony for ‘Best Fundraising Event’ in 2008.