Built for how work actually happens
About Sims Vision Consulting
Sims Vision helps organizations align people, place, and process so their workplaces operate more effectively—and their teams are better equipped to lead, adapt, and perform.
We partner with organizational leaders, HR and learning professionals, and facilities and workplace teams to reduce operational friction, strengthen leadership capability, and turn complex challenges into practical next steps.
Sims Vision brings those pieces together. Our consulting, facilitation, and professional development engagements are designed to help organizations:
The goal is not change for change’s sake. It is a workplace that functions better for the people inside it—and produces outcomes leaders can see, assess, and sustain
- Improve facilities and workplace operations
- Clarify workflows, roles, and decision-making
- Strengthen leadership, communication, and collaboration
- Prepare managers and teams to navigate change
- Build healthier, more sustainable ways of working
- Translate strategy into action through structured implementation support
The goal is not change for change’s sake. It is a workplace that functions better for the people inside it—and produces outcomes leaders can see, assess, and sustain
Sustainable workplaces. Stronger teams. Resilient leaders.
We examine the connection between people, place, and process—not just one isolated problem. This helps reveal the operational friction, capability gaps, and competing priorities that may be limiting performance.
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Assess the full workplace system
Recommendations must be usable. We translate broad challenges into clear priorities, practical tools, and sequenced next steps that leaders and teams can carry into daily work.
Make the complex actionable
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Consulting and training should leave an organization stronger. We equip leaders and teams with shared language, repeatable practices, and the confidence to continue applying what they learn.
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Build capability, not dependence
Short-term gains are not enough. We help organizations build systems and working practices that can withstand growth, transition, and unexpected change without sacrificing people or performance.
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Design for sustainable performance
People, place, and process
Our core consulting lens considers how human capability, the physical or hybrid workplace, and operational systems affect one another. This integrated perspective helps organizations make decisions that support both performance and employee experience.
Productivity meets personality
Working Genius gives teams a practical shared language for understanding how work moves from idea to completion. Sims Vision uses the framework in retreats, workshops, and leadership-development engagements to help teams recognize natural strengths, identify sources of frustration, assign responsibilities more intentionally, and collaborate more effectively.
Strategic operations
Our strategic-operations approach connects people, place, and process to help organizations improve efficiency, make informed decisions, and navigate change. This may include facilities and workplace assessments, operational planning, fractional leadership, coordination with contractors and external experts, and project and change management—from initial vision through implementation.
Applied learning and facilitation
Sims Vision goes beyond delivering a standard curriculum. Workshops and coaching are shaped around the real situations participants are navigating, helping them connect new concepts to workplace dynamics, communication challenges, decisions, and projects they already face.
Trusted professional frameworks to suit each organization’s goals, environment, and team
Sims Vision’s work is informed by two decades of experience across facilities management, workplace strategy, project delivery, organizational change, talent development, and professional coaching.
Founder Sarah Sims brings professional credentials and recognition across facilities, team effectiveness, and wellbeing, including:
These credentials reflect an ongoing commitment to established standards, ethical practice, and methodologies that can be applied in real workplace environments.
Founder Sarah Sims brings professional credentials and recognition across facilities, team effectiveness, and wellbeing, including:
- Facilities Management Professional (FMP) expertise
- Working Genius facilitator certification
- Experience as a 2020 IFMA Qualified instructor (IQI)
- Board-certified wellness coaching expertise
- Recognition as an IFMA 40 Under 40 honoree
- A bachelor’s degree in business administration from Strayer University
- Studying Human Resources Management at Georgetown University
- Service on numerous professional boards, including leadership roles as president and vice president
Combining Tenure with Talent
Meet Sarah Sims
Build the communication, leadership, collaboration, and change-readiness skills that technical expertise alone cannot provide.
Develop capable leaders and teams
Help leaders and high-performing professionals build clarity, confidence, executive presence, and careers that do not require sacrificing their wellbeing.
Support sustainable professional growth
What we help you do:
Sims Vision partners with organizational leaders, HR and learning professionals, and facilities and workplace teams facing growth, transition, or complex operational challenges. Each engagement is shaped around the organization’s goals, environment, and capacity—providing focused support that helps people move from competing priorities and persistent friction to clearer decisions, stronger alignment, and sustainable progress.
Practical support for organizations navigating change
Who we work with
Sims Vision was founded by Sarah Sims, an operations strategist, facilitator, and wellbeing consultant who has spent her career helping organizations and professionals navigate change.
Sarah’s experience spans facilities optimization, capital projects, workplace strategy, employee experience, leadership development, and individual mentoring. Her perspective is also shaped by lived experience with burnout, health challenges, parenthood, and career transition—bringing empathy to the work without losing sight of the practical and operational outcomes clients need.
Through Sims Vision, that experience becomes a structured consultancy: one that listens closely, examines the full system, and builds solutions around each client’s actual workplace—not a generic playbook.
Led by experience, centered on your goals
I enjoyed working with Sarah Sims to develop a 2023 discussion on workplace discrimination in the built environment. Sarah partnered with my team in the development and delivery of the session and made the process extremely seamless. Their expertise and ability to create an open, inclusive atmosphere were instrumental in the success of our session.
Sarah demonstrated exceptional skills in guiding our team through complex and sensitive topics. She provided insightful perspectives, facilitated meaningful conversations, and helped us develop actionable strategies to foster a more inclusive workplace.
I highly recommend Sarah for any organization seeking to address workspace issues. Their professionalism, knowledge, and empathetic approach make them invaluable to any team.
-James Derousselle
National Board for Teaching Standards
I recently completed the IFMA Facility Management Professional (FMP) program under Sarah's instruction, and I highly recommend both the course and her teaching approach.
Sarah created an engaging learning environment that encouraged participation and practical discussion. Rather than simply presenting course material, she connected concepts to real workplace scenarios, making it easier to understand how the FMP competencies apply in day-to-day operations and strategic decision-making. Her responsiveness, industry knowledge, and ability to facilitate meaningful conversations added tremendous value to the learning experience.
What stood out most was Sarah's commitment to the success of every participant. She was approachable, supportive, and genuinely invested in helping students understand the material and complete the program successfully.
-John W. Graham
Central Maintenance Zone
Office of Facilities Management and Reliability
I reached out to Sarah Sims to help me find balance between my entrepreneurial ventures and personal life. Working with Sarah, I quickly realized that achieving balance in my personal life required first putting some key structures in place within my businesses. Together, Sarah and I identified numerous obstacles that were hindering my business success—many of which I hadn’t even been aware of. We methodically reviewed each issue, developing best practices to address them all.
One of my biggest challenges was hiring staff to support the business. With Sarah’s help, using innovative tools, I gained a better understanding of my own strengths and weaknesses as a leader. The insights I gained on my coaching and consultation journey with Sarah has been invaluable for the growth and development of my business and managing my wellbeing. I will continue to implement the best practices I've learned with the support of Sarah and her numerous insights.
-Erika McCullough-Williams
Beyond Success Network
During the height of the pandemic, Sarah moderated a panel discussion about the impact the ‘Great Recession’ had on the corporate real estate/facilities management labor market. Cultivating connection between the audience and HR thought leaders on the panel allowed Sarah to activate her exceptional communication skills. During the hour long dialogue she was able to elevate a variety of perspectives, and thoughtfully explore innovative solutions through a compassionate leadership lense.
Sarah’s experience taking on complex issues facing the facility management/corporate real estate industry in today’s environment made for a rich discussion. She went beyond the obvious surface issues and probed to create a solution-oriented conversation.
-Sheryl Etelson
CoreNet Global-Mid Atlantic Chapter
