Assistant Director of Strategic Initiatives, Houston Public Works
City of Houston, TX
Sarah Coulter serves as Senior Assistant Director of Strategic Initiatives for Houston Public Works, where she leads efforts to modernize core operations, strengthen performance management, and improve service delivery across one of the nation’s largest public works departments. Her work sits at the intersection of strategy, data, and operations, translating executive priorities into actionable programs that support day-to-day decision-making and long-term infrastructure planning.
Sarah has played a key role in advancing coordinated infrastructure planning, performance dashboards tied to key outcomes, and cross-department collaboration that improves efficiency, resilience, and accountability. She partners closely with executive leadership and operational teams to align capital investments, asset management, and operational readiness, ensuring strategy is supported by the systems needed to execute at scale.
A recognized thought partner in urban operations and mobility, Sarah frequently speaks on strategy as infrastructure, system-level thinking in public service, and building organizational capacity to deliver results in complex urban environments
Assistant Director of Strategic Initiatives, Houston Public Works
City of Houston, TX
Sarah Coulter serves as Senior Assistant Director of Strategic Initiatives for Houston Public Works, where she leads efforts to modernize core operations, strengthen performance management, and improve service delivery across one of the nation’s largest public works departments. Her work sits at the intersection of strategy, data, and operations, translating executive priorities into actionable programs that support day-to-day decision-making and long-term infrastructure planning.
Sarah has played a key role in advancing coordinated infrastructure planning, performance dashboards tied to key outcomes, and cross-department collaboration that improves efficiency, resilience, and accountability. She partners closely with executive leadership and operational teams to align capital investments, asset management, and operational readiness, ensuring strategy is supported by the systems needed to execute at scale.
A recognized thought partner in urban operations and mobility, Sarah frequently speaks on strategy as infrastructure, system-level thinking in public service, and building organizational capacity to deliver results in complex urban environments
