Sara García González

Two years of organisational change have shaped Sara García González’s progression from engineering into operations leadership. At AVI-SPL Spain, she has helped guide her team through the integration of two businesses while continuing to deliver projects, maintain service quality and keep customer requirements in focus.

Now operations manager, García González works across departments to improve communication, project delivery and collaboration. Over the past year she has also applied ideas from AVI-SPL’s Elevate Leadership Development Program, particularly around ownership, decision-making and team development. She says one of the most rewarding parts of the integration period has been seeing colleagues grow in confidence and capability alongside her own development as a leader.

Her career began in a very different environment. After graduating in telecommunications engineering, García González’s first paid role involved carrying out acoustic measurements of aircraft noise in residential areas and analysing the resulting data. The job took her across Spain and, she says, helped build her independence, adaptability and confidence.

She later moved into AV/UC/IoT engineering, progressed to engineering manager and became operations manager in December 2024.

Looking ahead, García González wants the industry to adopt AI more widely for repetitive tasks and communication, while continuing to invest in the people, creativity and problem-solving skills that she believes remain central to AV.