Sara has focused on public participation processes and perception management campaigns since her firm’s genesis. The success of her clients is related to Sara’s focus on thoroughly identifying issues, building partnerships, and creating solution-based strategies. She has worked with many grass-roots efforts to navigate clients to successful outcomes.

Sara has sheparded several local issues through successful public involvement campaigns, and worked with many businesses, government agencies and multi-party stakeholder groups to facilitate community-based decision-making.

Sara has acted as facilitator and neutral third party on a number of large projects involving community values, most of which aggressively sought to identify common values and build solutions at the community level. Her vision for collaborating with constituencies in Western landscapes is derived from her own passion for seeing communities work together to address interests and design their collective future. Sara has worked as a facilitator for conservation and agriculture groups on open space, state and federal agencies on wildlife management, and community leaders planning for impacts of growth and development. She has also been heavily involved in using public dialogue to increase public education opportunities for Wyoming students.

Sara served as Marketing Director for the Jackson Hole Visitors Council before starting Flitner Communications. A Wyoming native from a fourth generation Wyoming family, Sara earned her Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Communication from the University of Wyoming. She lives in Jackson with her husband, Bill Wotkyns, and their sons, Pete and Silas.

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