Sadie Lincoln
Co-founder & CEO, barre3
- BFS Event
- The Summit by BFS · 2022
- Session
- Guiding Leadership Principles to Build a Resilient & Sustainable Company
- Theme
- Leadership
- Role
- Keynote Speaker
About Sadie Lincoln
Sadie Lincoln is the co-founder and CEO of barre3, a fitness and wellness company focused on teaching people to be balanced in body and empowered from within. Starting in 2008 with the flagship studio in Portland, Oregon, barre3 has grown to include more than 200 franchise studios all owned and operated by women, plus an online-workout streaming-subscriber base in 100+ countries. What started as a workout has blossomed into a full-blown movement made up of millions of people focused on body positivity, being empowered, and redefining what success in fitness means.
Sadie is on Inc.'s Female Founders 100 list, Forbes 50 over 50 list, MO100 Impact list, and in 2024 won Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in the Mountain West category and Athletech’s Power Player Award. She has been featured on NPR’s How I Built This and speaks regularly on the topics of mindful leadership, the power of body wisdom, and the movement to redefine what success in fitness means. Beyond running her company and being a global spokesperson, Sadie still enjoys teaching barre3 classes to many of her founding clients in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.
Sadie is on Inc.'s Female Founders 100 list, Forbes 50 over 50 list, MO100 Impact list, and in 2024 won Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in the Mountain West category and Athletech’s Power Player Award. She has been featured on NPR’s How I Built This and speaks regularly on the topics of mindful leadership, the power of body wisdom, and the movement to redefine what success in fitness means. Beyond running her company and being a global spokesperson, Sadie still enjoys teaching barre3 classes to many of her founding clients in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.