In this episode of Founders, Future, with host Mishal Saeed, we sit down with Sarena Diamond, founder and CEO of Diamond Solutions Group, LLC. With over 20 years of experience at Fortune 100 companies like IBM and Pepsi, Sarena shares how she pivoted from corporate life to entrepreneurship, driven by her passion for the human side of organizational change. She reveals her unique approach to helping leaders navigate mergers, strategy execution, and cultural transformations—not through dependency-building consulting, but by equipping teams with self-sufficiency tools. Sarena discusses her "kind accountability" framework, where she empowers leaders to drive change while holding them responsible for sustaining it, and why she deliberately avoids the traditional consultant trap of creating long-term client reliance.
Sarena opens up about scaling her impact through a three-pronged growth strategy: authentic LinkedIn engagement, strategic partnerships with talent agencies like Catalant, and an ambitious goal of 25 in-person speaking engagements in 2026. She explains why she prefers interactive workshops over keynote speeches and how she's positioning Diamond Solutions Group for the future of consulting—where companies increasingly seek flexible, high-expertise support rather than full-time hires. Listeners will walk away with insights on why most change initiatives fail (hint: it's not the strategy but the human adoption), and how Sarena's "magic wand" vision involves making her own consulting obsolete by teaching organizations to master change independently.
