Sandy Weiner
Master Certified Coach, MEd, B.A.
Nationality: American
Residence: Berlin and Brandenburg, Germany (15 years)
Languages: English
Lived and worked in: USA, Austria, Germany
Areas of expertise:
- Executive & leadership coaching
- Post-Merger Integration
- Engagement, Motivation, Collaboration
- Creating holistic solutions based on her client’s personal and corporate core missions
Corporate and Management Experience:
Sandy is uniquely qualified as a coach, manager, and facilitator of human resources solutions which lead to real, sustainable business success. She brings both a business and trained (organizational and individual) psychologist’s perspective, gained in over two decades of successful experience in teaching, coaching, and leadership. She has held leading positions in human resources and sales & marketing, and has served as CEO of her own executive search and re-engineering consulting company. These give her a rich background in understanding complex business issues and problem solving, and motivating others in finding solutions. She is co-founder of 1-Focus International.
Read her article: Seven Steps to Merger Excellence
Academic Qualifications:
Masters of Education, Special Education/Learning Disabilities
Bachelor of Arts, English/Psychology
Coaching Education and Certification:
Master Certified Coach (ICF)
Career Management Fellow (IBCMC)
Training:
- Workshops and training by the founders in Large Group Conference techniques: Open Space, Appreciative Inquiry, Future Search, Open Space Online,
- Certification, Gestalt Institute Cleveland, International Organizational Development Systemics Program (focus on Systems, coaching and Cultural Awareness)
- Gestalt Practitioner’s Training, Hartford Family Institute, Hartford, CT
- Managing Change (Sept. 1997) Dingle Peninsula Ireland
- Various Assessments including: MBTI, DISC, HOGAN Assessments
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Patrick Lencioni)
- ICF Conferences
- EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
- TFT (Thought Field Therapy)
ADVANCED QUALIFICATIONS
- TILT360/180 Leadership Assessments (Pam Boney) (2009-10) Raleigh, NC
- ENLP (Art Giser) May 2009 London, England
- HOGAN Assessments training Certification, Nurnberg, Germany: Hogan Personality Inventory; Hogan Development Survey; Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory
- Open Space Technology (Harrison Owen) Vienna, Austria (Oct. 2000)
- Appreciative Inquiry (Jim Lord) Case Western University Cleveland, Ohio (9/2000)
- Future Search (Marvin Weisbord & Sandra Janoff) Potsdam, Germany (9/1999)
- Gestalt Organizational Systems Development Conference (5/1998) Cleveland, Ohio
- Open Space (Sept. 1998) Istanbul, Turkey
- Managing Change (Sept. 1997) Dingle Peninsula Ireland
- Gestalt Institute Cleveland International Organizational Development Program (focus on Systems and Cultural Awareness) (1994-1996) Certification Completed Ed Nevis, et al (various locations internationally)
- A Gestalt Approach to Organization and Systems Development (Sept.1994) Paris
- Hartford Family Institute, Gestalt Practitioner’s Training (1992-1993) Hartford, CT
- NLP, Imperative Self Analyst Practitioner’s Training and Certification (1990-1992) Westbrook, CT
- Various assessments: Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Firo-B, Strengths Deplyment Inventory, Strengths Finder, MMPI, WISC, et all (1975 to present)
- Getting to Yes, Negotiating Skills (1986) Boston, MA
- DMA Creativity: (Robert Fritz) Train the Trainer certification (1982)
- M.Ed., Learning Disabilities, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA (1981)
- M.A./B.A., Remedial Reading and M.S/B.S. Special Education Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (6 credits shy completion) (1978-1980)
- B.A., English/Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (1977)
- A.S./A.A., Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL (1974)
- Robert Fritz’s Dimensions in Creativity (DMA) Goal Setting, Stress Management, Visioning and Spiritual Alignment, Trainer Certification (1985)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- ICF (International Coach Federation), Master Certified Coach, member the coach certification team and Internal Review Board (2000 to present)
- Management Center of Europe, Executive Coach (2004-2007)
- European Coaching Institute, Master Certified Coach, appointed to the board as head of membership and benefits (2004-2005)
- American-German Chamber of Commerce member since 1999 to present
- German American Business Club-Berlin Vice President 1996 to 2006
- Eastern European Organization Development Network, founding member 1995 – 2000
- Organization Development Institute, Consulting Member 1996 – present
- International Outplacement Institute, Fellow/ Member 1995-present
- Future Search Network, Member 2000- present
- CT Association of Personnel Consultants and IAOP 1983-1996
- International Association for Outplacement Professionals 1992-present
- CT Human Resource Professionals Support Group, Founding member, speaker and coordinator 1992-1995
- CT Monthly Re-Employment Workshops (CREW), Board and Faculty Member 1992-1995
- CT Prison Association, Board Member (Education Program Oversight) 1993-1995
- Organizational Development Network (ODN), Member 1992-1997
- Eastern CT Human Resource Network, Coordinator 1992-1993
- The Society of Young American Professionals 1992-1995
- Who’s Who Among Young American Professionals and Who’s Who Internationally.
- Association for Systems Management, Hartford/Springfield Chapter 1981-1992:
- Board of Directors: Director/Assistant Director of Programs, Membership and Communications; Treasurer.
- Founder and concept creator of the annual seminar: Data Processing, How to Get In (for entry level applicants) and
- The annual Job Fair co-sponsored with the University of Hartford for entry level applicants (1981 – 1990).
- Data Processing Management Association, Hartford Chapter 1985-1992:
- Board of Directors and American Business Equipment and Computer Show (AMBEC) Chairperson.
- Hartford Area Trainers 1984-1991
HONORS
Beyond being listed in numerous Who’s Who in Germany, Internationally, in Human Resources, in Sales and Marketing over the years, the Town of Stahnsdorf has honored her with a plaque with the story of our future search in the town hall which enabled the town to regain financial footing and growth; the CT Prison Association, as well other associations boards have valued her board contributions; as has the County of Dade, Florida for the creation of the run away hotline; and The Hartford Insurance Group for the first retraining program in lieu of layoffs.
Phi Theta Kappa membership; as well as other honors, reflecting her involvement and concern for community, as well as individual, development and growth.
ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS
Most Recent:
- The human dimension of M&A’s: Leading Cross-Cultural Re-engagement
- PersonalMagazin (10/08): Two Firms-One Identity (German only)
- Ivey Business Journal (10/08): Seven Steps to Merger Excellence
- Posts on Merger Excellence in our blog: SustainingChange
- White Paper: Leading Cross Cultural M and A Re-engagement
- Her monthly newsletter: INSPIRATION was published from 2004-present
- Numerous articles published by the Management Center of Europe, a regular column for www.goinglobal.com various national and international management and human interest magazines. Two train the trainer training manuals.
Coaching Approach:
The main focus of Sandy’s work is to uncover her client’s personal and corporate core missions (what motivates them); clarify where they want to go (shared vision); support them in reaching their goals fluently in a sustainable way (strategy); through engagement, self-realization and collaboration, while building personal and team spirit. This holistic process helps bring clarity to the whole person or organization and build energy and focus that enables her clients to reach new heights, feel deep satisfaction in their work and continuously renew the organization. This, to Sandy, is a central drive in life: to be in alignment with one’s core self and in tune with those around them, creating and in flow. Sandy brings a background of over 20 years of experience in coaching and consultant supervision as well as integrated collaborative process design into her coaching conversations.
Other Activities:
- Author of “7 Steps to Creating Sustainable Businesses: A Train the Trainer Guide”
- Co-author of The Motivation Training Manual
- Created and initiated the process that brought the town of Stahnsdorf, Germany out of bankruptcy and further enabled to support rapid expansion and community growth and health
- Regular contributor of articles to www.goinglobal.com & The Management Center of Europe
- Created the Career Fair concept and designed one of the first long-range retraining programs in lieu of corporate layoffs in the 80’s.
- Working with the Town leadership of this former East German, Border City: designed and oversaw the Renewable Energy Model City development applying a collaborative approach involving a wholistic integrated approach across-section of stakeholder groups within the Frankfurt (Oder) community and cross-border (Poland) region. Provided coaching and process development for the City’s Referent and overall project management of the on-going project. Currently, the project is pending 2008 funding. She and her team continued to support the project on a volunteer basis after the initial phase of the project. Among the many results, the town tram system has since converted to Solar energy.
- Berlin Little League Baseball, served 10 years as a board member of this 350 young person league
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