SARAI KOO, Ph.D. is a transformative speaker, culture change engineer, coach, author, and community leader who prepares people to thrive in live. For more than 18 years, Dr. Koo has helped organiza...view moreSARAI KOO, Ph.D. is a transformative speaker, culture change engineer, coach, author, and community leader who prepares people to thrive in live. For more than 18 years, Dr. Koo has helped organizations and corporations transform their workplace cultures. Her unique expertise focuses on helping clients: reassess their core value systems to align with organizational goals and vision; reduce or eliminate organizational and individual barriers affecting productivity; build essential human resource leadership skills to help the workforce become motivated, productive, and committed to achieving the organizations desired results. In 2011, Dr. Koo, was chosen as one of the top 25 Korean-American community leaders under the age of 40 in the nation and voted the top 100 Next Generation Korean American leaders nationwide.
Sarai is the former CEO and Founder of MAPS 4 College, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps students develop necessary competencies to graduate from high school, succeed in college, excel professionally and live a life with character and excellence. Students who completed her one-year college preparatory program all went to college and graduated. She has served more than 17,000 people in five counties throughout California and internationally and developing more than 200 innovative leadership, career training, and culture change programs. In 2014, the organization was chosen as the best service organization out of 28 cities.
Dr. Koo is the CEO and Founder of Project SPICES, a coaching, consultancy and speaking firm, creating programs and services for other companies and their leaders in leadership development, organizational behavior, and workforce transformation to advance new ways of doing things. She uses her SPICES Paradigm™, a process-oriented, decision-making approach to develop diverse people to become productive; assist workforce personnel to explore their respective strengths, recognize and maintain positive relationships and work-life balance; become aware of and release hindering behavior, and design a life plan that fulfills their potential.
She appears on national and international media; coaches people globally; and speaks at various universities, companies, nonprofit organizations, non-governmental associations, schools, and governmental agencies (CIA, ODNI, State, etc.). In 2011, Dr. Koo, was chosen as one of the top 25 Korean-American community leaders under the age of 40 nationwide.view less