Evolving Strategies, LLC

Founded in 1999, Evolving Strategies helps leaders, teams and organizations learn, lead and change. Clients include Accenture, Ashland Inc., Bank of Oklahoma Financial, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), East West Bank, Northern Trust Corporation, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Spencer Stuart, Thomson Reuters, United Airlines, the United States federal government, and Zebra Technologies.

Founder

Forbes Coaches Council

Forbes Coaches Council is an invitation-only organization comprised of leading business coaches and career coaches. Members are hand-selected by the Council’s selection committee.

Official Member

PepsiCo

PepsiCo, Inc. is an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation headquartered in New York. PepsiCo's business encompasses all aspects of the food and beverage market. It oversees the manufacturing, distribution, and marketing of its products. 

As of January 2021, the company possesses 23 brands that have over US$1 billion in sales annually. PepsiCo has operations all around the world and its products are distributed across more than 200 countries, with annual net revenues of over US$70 billion. PepsiCo is the second-largest food and beverage business in the world based on net revenue, profit, and market capitalization, behind Nestlé.

As part of the CIO transition, I led a team of employees and consultants to build the initial change management office (CMO) to enable the global technology organization to support Pepsico's digital transformation journey.

Global Information Technology | Strategy & Transformation Team | Senior Director

Northwestern University

Served as faculty for 'Executing Strategic Change,' a core, graduate level course of the Master of Science, Learning and Organizational Change program. The Master's program is grounded in concepts of cognitive science, psychology and education, and focuses on the applied areas of strategic change, performance, knowledge management, and learning.

Adjunct Faculty

Corporate Executive Board

Every year, the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) equips over 20,000 senior leaders from more than 10,000 organizations across 110 countries with the intelligence they need to respond quickly to evolving business conditions. In doing so, CEB helps them more effectively manage their talent, customers and operations to exceed business objectives.

As an Associate Director, I sold of CEB's HR-related best practices research, decision support tools, and executive education to a membership of the world's leading corporations and not-for-profit institutions.

Associate Director

Lante Corporation

Lante Corporation, a technology consulting company, customizes core extended enterprise applications to provide clients with new features to enable them to benefit from the trend toward information that is more interactive, real-time, collaborative, extended, and private.

Client Relationship Manager

Accenture

Accenture is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, providing consulting and outsourcing services through its strategy, digital, technology and operations capabilities.

Transition/Transformation Manager

CA Technologies

CA Technologies software and solutions have been powering innovation for over 35 years. Founded in 1976, CA Technologies has over 11,500 employees in 45 countries helping businesses thrive in a new world where every business is in the software business. CA Technologies has been recognized as a value leader by industry analysts and has been hailed as one of the “World’s 100 Most Innovative Companies” by Forbes, as well as one of the greenest companies in the United States by Newsweek®.

Sales and Marketing Associate (Pansophic Systems, Inc.)

Strengthen Your Change Leadership with a Coach You Can Trust |Forbes Contributor |Accenture Alum |Former NU Adjunct Faculty

Clients partner with me to address three key areas of need:

1. EXPANDING YOUR LEADERSHIP IMPACT
 	• Elevate Your Leadership Potential with Personalized Coaching
	• Foster Your Inclusivity as a Leader
	• Amplify Your Leadership Presence
	• Deepen Your Leadership Self-Awareness
	• Hone Your Coaching and Mentoring Skills

2. USING CHANGE MANAGEMENT FOR STRATEGIC EXECUTION EXCELLENCE
	• Master the Six Levers of Change Leadership
	• Develop Resilience and Adaptability as a Leader of Change
	• Build High-Performance Teams

3.  COMMUNICATING FOR IMPACT
	• Communicate Effectively and Efficiently
	• Resolve Conflicts with Courage and Confidence
	• Engage Your Stakeholders 
	
Delivery method(s) are customized based on my client's preferences and needs. This may involve a combination of one-on-one in-person or virtual coaching sessions, team workshops, assessments, and ongoing support to ensure growth and development.

About me
I coach executives for swift, successful, impactful change in themselves, teams, companies, or industries. If this describes you and you're ready to make a transformative impact and lead with more confidence, let's go.

With over two decades of experience, I've had the privilege of guiding leaders and teams from diverse industries, functions, and locations to not just navigate, but truly excel in today's ever-evolving business landscape. Helping clients develop the change leadership skills to tackle complex challenges like digital transformations, process enhancements, and customer engagement strategies is what I do.

My proven approach fuses structure and adaptability. I tailor my approach to the distinct needs and objectives of each leader or team, using proven assessments, tools, and strategies as needed. 

My work is grounded in practical experience, having served as a leader and member of multiple high-performing teams (and some low-performing teams as well) with organizations such as Accenture and PepsiCo. By delving into and applying research on leadership, learning and change as an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University, I co-created and delivered a course on executing strategic change in the Masters level program. 

I'm honored to have earned a spot on the Forbes Coaches Council. Serving as a mentor, most recently as part of D CEO's Emerging Women Leadership Network, is also a privilege.

Sandy Schwan

Raines Coaching and Consulting, LLC

ICF Credentialed Coach and Leadership Development Consultant

The University of Texas at Dallas

As the Director of Executive Education Corporate Education, I partnered with corporate clients to assess leadership performance gaps and design engaging learning interventions to close those gaps. No matter how challenging or complex an organization’s executive training needs are, I have the knowledge, experience and ability to create custom learning solutions based on the organization’s talent development goals and business performance objectives.  Clients partner with me because I am flexible, easy to work with and have a proven track record of equipping leaders so that they are able to maximize business performance. The collaborative partnerships I develop with clients are built with long-term sustainable success in mind.

Director -  Corporate Education

The Forum Corporation

Initiated and maintained profitable client relationships providing expert advise and coaching to successfully implement new strategies focused on Leadership Development, Sales Enablement and Customer Excellence which result in the increased performance of people.

Vice President - Executive Consultant

ExcellerateHRO

Created and managed the concept to production process for the global workforce development solution within the end-to-end Human Resources Business Process Outsourcing offering. The solution includes Goal Alignment, Performance Management, 360 Multi-rater Reviews, Succession Planning, Learning Management, Content Development and Employee Satisfaction Surveys. Responsible for the concept, design, build, sales support and implementation of the solution.

Global Product Manager - Workforce Development

Consulting Partners

Worked with senior leadership of a major movie rental chain to design and implement courseware to support the leadership implementation of new strategic goals.  Performed training assessments and created a comprehensive training strategy for a national copy center corporation. The training strategy complimented their 2004 infrastructure redesign, which impacted over 20,000 employees.

Sr. Performance Consultant

MSHOW.com

Responsible for developing profitable business in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Louisiana.  Collaborated with prospects and clients regarding best practice application of interactive web-based conferencing to achieve business results.

Business Development

Electronic Data Systems

Initiated profitable business relationships with EDS clients. Focused on sales of Change Management, Web University solutions and learning products and services. Featured speaker at industry conferences on the use of interactive technology to improve performance and achieve business results.

Sales Executive,  Human Performance Services

inmedia, inc.

Consulted with clients in the assessment, design and delivery of interactive technology solutions to increase performance.

Led cross functional, multi-regional teams to develop and implement industry leading corporate technical training and leadership development programs for global EDS. Established the first multimedia development organization which transformed the way EDS delivered training reducing millions in training delivery costs. The teams created interactive multimedia training solutions which received 2 nationally recognized Cindy Awards and 2 Macromedia People’s Choice Awards for outstanding corporate training along with one patent for design methodology. Managed P&L, budget of $4 million, hiring, salary administration, employee development, vendor negotiation and purchasing.

Global Manager, Training and Development

With a distinguished career marked by transformative leadership, I am a highly qualified and dynamic executive specializing in complex, global transformations. My expertise lies in executive coaching, talent development, and information technology, where I have consistently delivered proven success. As a trusted coach, I partner with professionals to help them discover their potential, while my proficiency in managing complex global projects showcases my ability to drive initiatives from concept through implementation.

My strength lies in strong coaching skills with exceptional attention to detail, fostering productive working relationships, adept facilitation, and creative problem-solving. I am a skilled leader with an internal and external focus on leadership development, consistently balancing people concerns with business needs to create shareholder value and overall performance excellence.

Throughout my career, I have demonstrated influential leadership, excellent communication, and collaboration skills. My commitment to excellence is reflected in my track record of successfully navigating the intersection of people and business, contributing to lasting success and shareholder value.

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