This tutorial provides the steps to reposition the secondary nav menu to above the site header followed by wrapping it and the site header in a custom div and making it fixed in Genesis Sample.
Written for Genesis Sample 2.6.0.
Step 1
Edit child theme's functions.php.
a) Since the secondary nav is being repositioned above the site header, you probably don't want it in the footer anymore.
Comment out or delete
add_action( 'genesis_footer', 'genesis_do_subnav', 10 );
b) At the end of the file, add
