We've sat in the classroom, the boardroom, and the therapy room.

The Story

Sarah Winslow and Michael Zivsak have each served as Statewide Director for Project SEARCH Michigan — both bringing nearly three decades of experience apiece, Sarah inside special education systems, transition services, and stakeholder collaboration; Michael in clinical social work and corporate finance, with specialized training in trauma, resilience, and grief work on one side, and lending and risk analysis for nonprofit and multinational organizations on the other.

Neither of them set out to become "consultants" in the generic sense. They became the people organizations called when a problem didn't fit neatly into one department — because it never does. Locksmith Consultants exists because that pattern kept repeating, and someone needed to bring those pespectives together on purpose

What Makes Us Different

Three lanes most firms never combine:

Most consultancies have one of these. We built ours at the intersection of all three, because your organization's challenges don't stay inside one lane either.

Our Approach

No two schools or organizations are dealing with quite the same problem, so we don't start from a template. We sit down, listen to what's actually happening on the ground, and build from there. And when something falls outside our own wheelhouse, we bring in people we trust rather than stretch to cover it ourselves.