Sarah Altemus
Manager, Productivity Lab
Sarah Altemus is Productivity Lab Manager at ActivTrak, where she contributes to the company’s research and advisory efforts focused on work intelligence in the AI era. Working with one of the world’s largest datasets on how work actually happens, she partners with global enterprises to benchmark performance, apply best practices and translate behavioral data into measurable improvements in productivity, workforce effectiveness and organizational design.
Sarah brings a decade of experience advising organizations through complex, large-scale transformations where workplace strategy, culture and business operations must evolve simultaneously. Her work spans global enterprises including Expedia Group, ExxonMobil and Wizards of the Coast, where she shaped the human-centered strategies required to sustain performance through periods of significant disruption — including headquarters relocations, mergers, operating model shifts and digital transformation.
At Expedia Group, Sarah directed change management for the relocation of 5,000 employees to a new headquarters, developing enterprise-wide readiness programs, behavioral research initiatives and cross-functional alignment strategies. When COVID-19 emerged during the transition, she supported the company’s pandemic response, enabling a rapid and coordinated shift to remote work at scale. At ExxonMobil, she supported leadership through the organizational and cultural complexities of one of the largest corporate headquarters projects in the world, alongside a concurrent merger integration.
Earlier in her career, Sarah advised enterprise organizations including Amazon, Nordstrom and Philips Healthcare on workplace strategy and new ways of working, applying human-centered research and design thinking to align employee experience with business performance. She also served as a researcher at APQC (the American Productivity and Quality Center), where she developed expertise in benchmarking, process improvement and organizational effectiveness.
At ActivTrak, she focuses on helping organizations operationalize work intelligence — enabling leaders to embed data-driven ways of working and drive adoption at scale. Her work emphasizes that sustainable performance gains require not just new technology, but a fundamental redesign of how work happens, supported by continuous measurement and organizational accountability.
Sarah’s areas of expertise include organizational design, workforce analytics, return-to-office strategy, employee listening at scale and change management in the context of AI and productivity technologies.
Sarah brings a decade of experience advising organizations through complex, large-scale transformations where workplace strategy, culture and business operations must evolve simultaneously. Her work spans global enterprises including Expedia Group, ExxonMobil and Wizards of the Coast, where she shaped the human-centered strategies required to sustain performance through periods of significant disruption — including headquarters relocations, mergers, operating model shifts and digital transformation.
At Expedia Group, Sarah directed change management for the relocation of 5,000 employees to a new headquarters, developing enterprise-wide readiness programs, behavioral research initiatives and cross-functional alignment strategies. When COVID-19 emerged during the transition, she supported the company’s pandemic response, enabling a rapid and coordinated shift to remote work at scale. At ExxonMobil, she supported leadership through the organizational and cultural complexities of one of the largest corporate headquarters projects in the world, alongside a concurrent merger integration.
Earlier in her career, Sarah advised enterprise organizations including Amazon, Nordstrom and Philips Healthcare on workplace strategy and new ways of working, applying human-centered research and design thinking to align employee experience with business performance. She also served as a researcher at APQC (the American Productivity and Quality Center), where she developed expertise in benchmarking, process improvement and organizational effectiveness.
At ActivTrak, she focuses on helping organizations operationalize work intelligence — enabling leaders to embed data-driven ways of working and drive adoption at scale. Her work emphasizes that sustainable performance gains require not just new technology, but a fundamental redesign of how work happens, supported by continuous measurement and organizational accountability.
Sarah’s areas of expertise include organizational design, workforce analytics, return-to-office strategy, employee listening at scale and change management in the context of AI and productivity technologies.
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