Your path to Re-Mark-Ability will be unique

Our resolve to keep you on track will be constant.

Our Principles

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Think

Either vertically or laterally we will help you and your team with the right questions.  We provide a confidential thinking space where you can wrestle with the choices.

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Choose

After a healthy amount of divergent thinking, we help you bring the team together in a direction.  Clarity of vision, path, and purpose are a leader's charge.

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Act

Who does what or when and who do they tell about it?  Actions fill the air and success and failure are their cousins.

Review

What worked, what didn't? What did we learn and what does it mean?  We push you to review and then ask: what's next?

OUR SERVICES

"I wrote myself a letter on July 13, 2007 with a promise to leave the insurance business, and it all began when I realized I wanted to help my clients grow their businesses more than protect them."

- Drew Sanders
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OUR TEAM

Drew Y. Sanders

CEO, Founding Principal

Drew Sanders founded Banyan Tree Strategies in 2013 with three clients and the mission to help business owners grow their companies. Sanders and his team have worked with dozens of companies on a wide variety of projects which have led to the customized processes that Banyan now delivers. A typical client engagement begins with a breakfast or lunch conversation with a shorthanded business owner who needs a helping hand, a confidential thinking space, or an outside voice.

Sanders has helped at risk youth organizations and youth sports coaches of all ages for decades in a variety of capacities and is a volunteer coach in his local community. Sanders is a past director of The First Tee, The Boy Scouts of America, The Cal Golf Committee, and is the founder of The California Season of Life Foundation.
Sanders publishes content on a daily basis at his LinkedIn profile and publishes a long format newsletter eight times a year by the name of ‘Branches and Roots’ which applies social science to business, life and sport. Sanders individual writings and teachings can be found at www.drewsanders.com as well as his author page at Amazon.

Sara Sanders

CFO and Board Member, LPGA Professional

Sara Sanders is responsible for finances, marketing, design, newsletter production, and a multitude of day-to-day operations.  Sanders is an invaluable member of the Banyan Team. In addition to helping Drew raise their two children Ryan and Brooke, Sara worked in commercial real estate at SRS Real Estate Partners for fourteen years.

Prior to working at Banyan and SRS, Sara spent five years playing professional golf on the LPGA Tour.  Sara earned a Bachelor's of Arts in Psychology at Stanford University and was also a 2-time all-American in Field Hockey.  Like Drew she is passionate about sports and coaching, as well as volunteering in the community and at schools.  ​

Sara also started Birdie Steps, LLC and is empowering women golfers to take up the game and incorporate it into their work and business networking repertoire. She participates in corporate clinics and provides content through Birdie Steps social and online platforms.