Sally Handlon

Sally Handlon is founder and president of Handlon Business Resources* (HBR) LLC, a woman-owned business, located in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. In 2020, she became a published author with her book Your Journey to Aging Well. According to David Winston, RH (AHG) internationally renowned herbalist, ”(s)he just put out a lovely book on commonsense nutrition/lifestyle choices and is doing some really good work.” Then, in 2023, she became a contributing author for volume 10 of Mission Matters, Business Leaders Edition. Her chapter titled Building a Stronger and More Sus5tainable Bottom Line. combines both her business and wellness passions.

Sally is a graduate of David’s Center for Herbal Studies, two year and graduate program (2008, 2009). She is also a 2019 graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, the world’s largest nutrition school and has Integrative Nutrition Health Coach certification. This certification has led to her establishment of Body Construction website www.bodyconstruction.me

Active in the Lehigh Valley community for over 40 years, Sally has been involved with civic and business groups in Allentown, Bethlehem & Easton. Her current Board activity includes the Rising Tide Community Loan Fund Board.

She is a 2014 recipient Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation MVP, 2014 recipient of the YWCA of Bethlehem Woman of the Year, 2011 recipient of the Lehigh Valley Suits Award for Management Consulting, 2007 recipient of the PA Best 50 Women in Business, 2004 recipient of the US Small Business Administration Women In Business Advocate – Philadelphia Region, The Morning Call’s – Lehigh Valley “30 Who Shape the Valley” and “Women to Watch” as well as Niche Magazine’s Top 100 Retailers Nominee. Other awards include the Chamber’s Athena Award (1988) and The Hillside School Service Award (1996).

Sally was active on the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation’s General Board for six years and chaired the Local Sourcing and Business Diversity Council for 8 years. She was on the Board of the Moravian Book Shop and Women’s Leadership Institute at Cedar Crest College. She also served on the Business Advisory Committee for the Mayor of Bethlehem PA. Additional board experience includes: WDIY 88.1 FM (NPR ), Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber, Small Business Council, DBA- Bethlehem Merchants Association, SouthSide Film Institute, South Bethlehem Historical Society, Executive Women’s Council, Allentown YWCA, Allentown Neighborhood Housing Association and The Hillside School. She has been Keynote speaker at area events as well as presented position papers at the American Bankers Association in Atlanta, Retail Lending conference in Boston and the Iacocca Institute at Lehigh University. She is a past senior seminar advisor for Cedar Crest College. She is a founding member of the Women’s Business Council of the Chamber (1982) as well as co-founding south Bethlehem’s First Friday in1998.

Since 2009 Sally has been a community host on WDIY 88.1 FM (NPR) for a monthly radio show, Lehigh Valley Discourse, which focuses on business, local authors and health in the Lehigh Valley.

A graduate of Penn State University with post graduate business courses at Muhlenberg College and Bucknell University, her varied employment experience includes: financial services, call center management, retail & commercial lending, higher education, community & institutional recreation, community health planning, retail business owner, corporate mergers & acquisitions. She is also a US consultant (11 worldwide) accredited as Excellence Audit Facilitator with the Tom Peters Future Shape of the Winners program.

*HBR is a short- term project management partner to executives and business owners in implementing the long, overdue recommendations to move the company forward.