Sarah Middleton | January 2026
Visionary Speaker: Sarah Middleton
Join us on January 20th at 12pm Pacific | 3pm Eastern for a Visionary Speaker Session with special guest Sarah Middleton, multi-hyphenate Social Entrepreneur and Impact Table Member.
Impact Table Visionary Speaker Sessions are private member and invite-only gatherings that bring respected women leaders in impact to share about their personal leadership and impact journey and important lessons learned along the way.
Our guests share an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at their own leadership and impact journey and share tips and tools they’ve learned, giving members the real talk, connection, and truth we all crave and inspiration you can take with you on your own path.
Following the speaker’s share is an open Q&A with the speaker and time for members to break out into small groups.
About Impact Table Visionary Speaker Sessions
Too many women in social impact are under-resourced and under-supported, navigating their leadership and impact journey alone, or in a silo. We know, doing the world’s most important work isn’t a solo gig. One way we can stop patching together a leadership journey built on trial and error and instinct alone is to listen and learn from others share the truth behind how they’ve navigated own leadership and impact journey, and share about our own experiences. Through Impact Table Visionary Speaker Sessions, we remove the veil and the misconceptions of what it takes to lead an impact journey that truly transforms lives and we inspire and equip Impact Table members to elevate their own leadership.
Impact Table Member and Champion Sarah Middleton is President and CEO of Mission Up, a social change consulting firm that works alongside companies, nonprofits, and movements. Prior to founding Mission Up in 2018, Sarah was the Senior Vice President responsible for global corporate citizenship at PIMCO and Executive Director of the PIMCO Foundation. During her time at PIMCO, Sarah was part of the Points of Light Corporate Institute Leadership Faculty, acted as a regional voice lead for IMPACT2030, and served on the Orange County Commission to End Homelessness.
Sarah is past Chair of Orange County Grantmakers and was the founding Chair of the Corporate Volunteer Council of Orange County. Before joining PIMCO in 2007, she served as an AmeriCorps volunteer and worked in the nonprofit sector for six years. Sarah has written for The Huffington Post, spoken at national and global conferences, and was named one of Orange County, California’s 100 Most Influential people of 2015. Sarah is a board member for the National Museum & Center for Service, a member of Independent Sector’s Strategic Volunteer Engagement Program Advisory Committee, and one of the Founding 50 Collaborators for the Realized Worth Institute Makerspace.
She holds an MBA from the University of California, Irvine and an undergraduate degree from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Sarah lives in Orange County, California with her family, and enjoys reading, traveling, and running marathons.
