Sara Margalus is originally from the Boston area. She attended Norwich University, the oldest private and senior military university in the United States studying Criminal Justice and English. Upon graduating, she was commissioned in the United States Army as a Military Intelligence Officer and later became a Military Police Officer. While on active duty, she served two combat tours to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. After leaving active duty, she continued to work for the military as a senior analyst, advisor, and consultant for the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force at the Pentagon.
For over a decade, Sara has been a senior investigator and threat manager, based on her foundation of threat management and assessment, as well as conducting investigations while serving in the U.S. Army. Her final private sector position was as the Global Lead for Workplace Violence Prevention, Threat Management, and Senior Investigator for a Fortune 100 company, where she developed and implemented the Workplace Violence Prevention Program as well as the Active Shooter Program, working with the FBI, DHS, USPIS and Local Law Enforcement.
Sara started Soterian Consulting, LLC due to her passion for working in threat management, workplace violence prevention, analysis, and investigations over the course of her career. With her expertise in these fields, she knew you cannot do one without the other, as they all connect. She brings her expertise to organizations to provide education on how to prevent workplace violence through analysis, investigation, and threat management.
Sara is certified in Advanced Threat Assessment and Threat Management, Interview and Interrogation, WAVR-21 Workplace Assessment of Violent Risk –Mitigating the Threat of Campus and Corporate Violence.