Sandra Ford Walston

Who is Sandra Ford Walston?

“The motivational speaker who gives you the courage to step up to the next level.”

Sandra Ford Walston, The Courage Expert,

innovator of StuckThinking™, bestselling author, consultant, seminar leader, speaker, courage coach

Sandra has been featured in numerous magazines such as:


• Chief Learning Officer


• Strategic Finance


• Personal Excellence: The Magazine of Life Leadership (Professor Bennis)


• HR Matters, Malaysia


• Training & Development (US and Germany)


• The Washington Executive


• Brandon Hall Network

Purchase COURAGE

You can discover the power of your hidden courage or you can choose to give the gift of COURAGE— perfect for any woman looking to claim her feminine courage. Regardless of your stage of life, you can discover your full potential!

For an autographed copy or for international orders, please use PayPal. For multiple books or special orders, please email Sandra. Purchase a copy without autograph directly from the publisher HERE

To purchase the follow-up book, STUCK: 12 Steps Up the Leadership Ladders (October 2010) both domestic and international, please click HERE. Thank you! 

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Autograph Options

If you would like Sandra to autograph your copy of COURAGE,

send her an email once you’ve placed your order.

Be sure to include the name of the person receiving the book.

“I love that my courage is my friend during times of uncertainty or difficult transitions,” says Sandra Ford Watson, a courage expert and author of Courage: The Heart and Spirit of Every Woman. “There is no need for me to run from myself. My courage permits me to be innately motivated. In courage, my life expresses my heart’s core.”

Courage Wins New Honor!

The Rocky Mountain Unit of Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic has chosen Courage: The Heart and Spirit of Every Woman for inclusion in the national audio catalog. “Courage will be a part of 120,000 current titles available to almost a quarter million members with print disabilities.”

High Praise for Sandra’s First Book

“Sandra Ford Walston speaks to the heart of the matter when she points to courage as the linchpin of women’s true liberation. She illumines the path for us all.”

—Marianne Williamson, A Woman’s Worth and A Return to Love

“To read Sandra Ford Walston’s book is to celebrate the brilliance of contemporary women whose lives were transformed by embracing the virtue of courage. Her profound research indicates that every women has been endowed with this virtue and shows us how to evoke it and manifest it more fully in our lives.”

—Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Women’s Soul and Chicken Soup for the Unsinkable Soul

Courage is one of the greatest gifts from God. It is a gift that changes people’s lives and uplifts the experience of the entire planet. In this extraordinary book by Sandra Ford Walston, clarity and wisdom are mixed with deep insight to produce a document of stunning value. I hope women—and men—everywhere read it.”

—Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God

If a new perspective—one that will launch your organization to the next level—is what you’re looking for, then you’ve come to the right place!

Who is Sandra Ford Walston? “The motivational speaker who gives you the courage to step up to the next level.”

Sandra Ford Walston, The Courage Expert and innovator of StuckThinking™ is an organizational effectiveness consultant, speaker, corporate trainer and courage coach, specializing in understanding courage-centered leadership, women’s courage leadership issues, courage behaviors 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, STUCK: 12 Steps Up the Leadership Ladder is now available. Sandra writes for Chief Learning Officerand Strategic Finance magazines, and she posts a monthly Courage Blog.

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, 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.

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“He who hesitates before each step spends his life on one leg.”
-- Ancient Chinese Proverb