Sandra Ford Walston, The Courage Expert and innovator of StuckThinking™ is an organizational effectiveness consultant, speaker, corporate trainer and a courage coach, specializing in understanding courageous leadership, women’s courage leadership issues, the ethical behaviors of courage and individual personalities that focus on the tricks and traps of the human condition. Sandra is the internationally published author of bestseller COURAGE: The Heart and Spirit of Every Woman. Her second book is currently agent represented. Sandra writes for Chief Learning Officer and Strategic Finance magazines, and she posts her own monthly Courage Blog and she is a courage expert on  successtelevision.com.

Sandra provides skill-based programs for public and private businesses, including Caterpillar, Inc., Auburn University, Procter & Gamble, Wyoming Department of Health Public Nurses, Farmers Insurance, Notle Engineers, Wide Open West and Hitachi Consulting. Ms. Walston is qualified to administer and interpret the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and is certified as an Enneagram teacher, and she enjoys applying insights from both systems to her work. With over eleven years of experience with finance professionals, she instructs for the University of Denver Graduate Tax Program Continuing Professional Education courses and she formerly taught for the Colorado Society of CPAs.

Partial List of Published Available Here: Articles:

 Partial List of Acknowledgments:

• Instructor, University of Denver, Graduate Tax Program

• Guest speaker of Dr. Donna Sockell, Director, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, Boulder

• Candidate for honorary doctorate degree University of West Florida

• Interviewed for Entrepreneur magazine, “Marketing Smarts,” January 1996

• Completed Joel Roberts’ Advanced Excellence in Media Training, December 1999

• “Meet the Pros,” March 2001, National Speakers Association, SF Winter Workshop spoke on “Break All the Odds, Defy the Rules: Do You Have the Courage to Launch a Book?”

 Educational highlights:

• B.A., California State University, San Jose, California

• Life Standard Teaching Credential, specializing in education

• UCLA Extension continuing education classes with a focusin Business.

• Qualified to administer and interpret the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® to assess challenges in team building, leadership, stress, time management, gaining group consensus, and developing camaraderie, competence and trust.

• Certified in the Enneagram. The Enneagram is a personality system that describes nine distinct and fundamentally different patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting.

Memberships:

•  Colorado Author’s League
•  National Association for Executive Females
•  Rocky Mountain Association of Psychological Type
• The Denver Orchid Society