A Passion for Excellence
Sandy Russell is a workshop leader, Professional Certified Coach and Chartered Professional in Human Resources dedicated to helping individuals, organizational leaders, teams and HR professionals create conscious high performance cultures where people are evolved, empowered, effective and engaged.
As a business owner for 17 years, Sandy brings a 25 year background in HR & organizational development coaching and training teams, executives, high potentials and emerging leaders. In 2009, she received the International Coach Federation B.C. Prism Award Honourable Mention which celebrates excellence and business achievement through professional coaching as a leadership strategy.
Inspiring Greatness in People and Organizations
Sandy’s purpose is to inspire greatness in people and organizations. She believes strongly in the potential of people – including her own! One of her core beliefs is that all people have greatness within them – they only need to remember and reclaim it.
At the heart of everything she does lies her vision to elevate personal consciousness so people are fulfilled and bring their personal best in service of both personal and organizational engagement. Because of this, today she incorporates her own lessons learned about self-empowerment, self-responsibility and personal leadership into her services for added impact.
Organizational Experience & Specialties
For over 20 years Sandy has delivered high quality results in various industries including financial services, healthcare, retail, food & beverage, non-profit, real estate and telecommunications. Her experiences with top employers has given her key insights into the workplace practices and leadership qualities which create a healthy organizational culture.
Sandy has coached over 600 individuals for more than 4500 hours and delivered upwards of 300 days of training to teams and groups. She helps clients tap their inner wisdom, leverage their strengths, move beyond challenges and create values-based action. She challenges them to increase self-awareness, deliberately raise their consciousness and step more fully into their personal power.
Specialties include team cohesion & visioning, assertiveness, conflict management & influence, coaching skills & collaboration, personal & career leadership, executive development, leadership & neuroscience, change management & helping people managers leverage their leadership potential for maximum impact.
Education & Certifications
- iEQ9 Integrative Enneagram Practitioner (CNTC)
- Certified NeuroTransformation Coach (CNTC)
- Licensed Neuroscience & Effectiveness Trainer
- Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
- Sacred Gifts Certified Guide
- Coaching Happiness Certification, Dr. Robert Holden
- Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC)
- Chartered Professional in Human Resources (CPHR)
- Graduate of Co-active Space Leadership, The Coaches Training Institute
- CEVEY Business Leadership Coach (BLC)
- Organization & Relationship Systems (ORSC) advanced coach training, CRR Global
- Graduate studies, Queen’s University MBA program
- Bachelor of Arts (Psych), University of British Columbia
Inspirations
Sandy has been a volunteer speaker, workshop leader and coach with various organizations including BC Minerva Foundation, VANOC and Liberty Education. She enjoys supporting others in their quest for meaningful work and inspired living. She loves spending time with dogs everywhere including being a Dog Welfare Therapist for the SPCA. She also enjoys tennis, golf, music, meditation, travel, SNL and time with friends and family!
