Sandra Poland

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Sandra turned her focus to organization development consulting after 20 years of leading large-scale change in complex multinational companies. Working with leaders at all levels and across multiple industries, she acquired significant experience in implementing corporate restructuring, merger and acquisitions, cultural transformation, organization effectiveness and process improvement initiatives. 

Prior to establishing Sustainable Change Consulting, LLC in 2009, Sandra worked at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, BOC Gases, and AT&T in a variety of senior HR roles including: organization development, HR Business Partner, and learning and development. 

Now, as a consultant she leverages her extensive background to partner with BBC and senior business leaders to design organization development solutions that build capability and enable business strategy. Her key areas of expertise include change management, strategy alignment and deployment, team development, organization design and leadership development. Sandra has a passion for implementing sustainable change that "sticks" by effectively engaging and developing leaders at all levels of the organization. 

Sandra earned a MS in General Management from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ and a BA in Human Resource and Organization Behavior from the University of San Francisco. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Principles and Practices of Organization Development program and is certified as a University Meyers-Brigg Type Indicator practitioner. Among her other certifications, Sandra is certified in The Grove International Team Performance System and the Procsi and Changefirst change management methodologies.

Sandra lives with her husband, two parrots and three cats in Alameda, CA.  She maintains an active lifestyle, loves to travel and enjoys Yoga, hiking, bicycling and gardening.