Meet Sally, Ibis Founder
For nearly 5 decades, Sally has dedicated her life to improving our society from leading a program for low-income East St. Louis youth to her current commitment to public service and civic engagement.
Sally’s career is robust with accomplishments and contributions. She was a presidential appointee where she served in four major leadership roles at the U.S. Labor Department including as Deputy Chief of Staff, Associate Assistant Secretary for Policy and others.
She also has held leadership positions in a variety of nonprofits, taking on many roles that have brought forth important societal improvements. Among those of which she is most proud: Helping to reduce the rate of teen pregnancy by a third; launching the first ever federally funded K-12 scholarship program in Washington DC; and significantly increasing the federal funding of Alzheimer’s research. Sally also was an Assistant Director at the Harvard University Kennedy School, where she served on the admissions committee and also helped run the Master’s in Public Policy and Public Administration programs and additionally she has served as a senior leader in Massachusetts state government. Sally also served as the Executive Director of BJBE, a reform synagogue in Deerfield.
Sally has an MBA with highest honors from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, a bachelor’s with high honors from Colgate University, and has thrice attended Harvard Business School’s Executive Education program.
In addition to Ibis Collaborative through which Sally leads discussion groups with several senior communities (in person and on Zoom), Sally founded and runs her own consulting firm, Sachar Solutions, where she focuses on maximizing the impact of non-profit and small business enterprises. You can learn more here: https://sacharsolutions.com
Sally and her husband, Rob Muller, have 3 young(ish) adult children, a son-in-law, a daughter-in-law, a baby granddaughter, and a mischievous yellow lab. Originally from St. Louis, Sally then spent several decades back East, first in Boston for 10 years, and then in Washington for 25, before relocating to Chicago several years ago.