Her Story
About Sarah
Sarah Burkhart is an Enrollment Team Lead and Health & Wellness Coach based in the United States, currently working with Craniometrix. In her role, she leads enrollment efforts for the GUIDE (Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience) Medicare support program, helping patients diagnosed with dementia and their caregivers connect with care navigation resources and community support. Trained through the MIND at Home program developed by Johns Hopkins, she brings a structured yet compassionate approach to supporting individuals and families during some of their most vulnerable moments.
With more than 20 years of experience across healthcare, mental health, dementia care, nonprofit work, and community outreach, Sarah’s career has centered on service and advocacy. Her background includes leadership roles in psychiatry support, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) program administration, marketing, and executive support within mission-driven organizations. Over time, she has developed a strong ability to identify unmet needs in care systems and create programs that improve access, connection, and patient outcomes.
Sarah’s professional philosophy is grounded in empathy, intuition, and human connection. As a survivor of abuse, she has dedicated her work to ensuring others feel seen, heard, and supported, especially during crisis points in their lives. Alongside her clinical and operational experience, she is also self-taught in marketing and visual storytelling, using those skills to amplify nonprofit and community initiatives. She continues to focus on building bridges between people and resources, with a long-standing commitment to improving the lived experience of patients and caregivers in dementia care and beyond.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Sarah
01What do you attribute your success to?
I've learned that some people see what's there while others see what's possible, and my gift has always been seeing what's missing and helping build it. No matter where I'm at, whether that's a program, a resource, a community partnership, or a support system for someone struggling, I've spent my life trying to provide support and help others find their way forward. As someone told me one time, and it just stuck with me: we're all just walking each other home. I think everything that we might think is bad that happens to us is a blessing in disguise in some way. Being a survivor of abuse myself, I really needed support in a time in my life, and I didn't have it. And I told myself, you know what? This is it. This is where I'm going to help in my life. What drives my passion is having a blessing in disguise that we don't realize at the time, but how fruitful that can be moving forward in helping others.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would tell them to find their passion, what drives them. I think that when you love what you do, you don't work a day in your life. When you can really find your value in what you're doing, that's really going to bring your ships in and help you be of service to others.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
A major challenge in the field is the lack of coordinated, accessible support for individuals diagnosed with dementia and their caregivers, which often leaves families to navigate complex care systems on their own. This gap also represents a significant opportunity to build more integrated enrollment, care navigation, and community-based support programs that improve continuity of care and reduce caregiver burden.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
The most important values in both my work and personal life are service, compassion, advocacy, empowering others, and building meaningful community connections.
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