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Technology
|Women's Associations |Telecommunications
| Here's what a few clients from a variety of industries are saying about Sandra's talent: "Sandra blends her diverse business background and invaluable
knowledge to her speaking, seminar leading, and coaching clients.
From technology to telecommunications, lawyers to accountants,
health care to government entities, women's organizations
to advertising agencies, engineers to manufacturing, clients
acclaim her work ethics, character, dynamic presence, and
uncanny insight into organizations' issues. Applying the Enneagram
to her coaching abilities, she provided the human dimension
to our high tech, fast paced environment. It's no wonder she
is known as 'The courage to step up to
the next level speaker,' she's the epitome of courage." "Our managers, many of whom were new to management, found
Sandra's classes to be extremely helpful in their growth as
leaders. Sandra knows how to research her subject and is always
well prepared. She presents in a dynamic fashion and keeps
the atmosphere somewhat electric due to her enthusiasm, which
is contagious. Her high-energy style makes any subject matter
interesting. "Thank you so much for participating in the 'IT Retention:
Retraining, Retaining, or Detaining' program. Your contribution
helped to make the program a very successful and informative
to organizations throughout the country. We accomplished our
mission to educate our viewers on the 'real story' behind
keeping good employees. Thank you for helping produce this
unique program!" Women's Associations "Thank you for your dynamic presentation: "Getting Results:
Overcoming Gender-Based Perceptions in the Workplace." The
participants valued the practical advice that you provided
and enjoyed attending. Evaluations of the program overwhelmingly
indicated a very well received program: 'good presence, likable,
good acknowledgement of group discussion, and very relevant
material provided in hard copy.' I will forward your materials
to the convention chairperson." "Women in Cable and Telecommunications Rocky Mountain Chapter
was proud to contract their Breakfast Series and two board
retreat with Sandra. She designed, delivered, and facilitated
a high impact, result oriented workshops, two board retreats,
and monthly breakfast meetings for over a year. Her ability
to organize presentations unified the Board and the development
programs. We implemented all her suggestions. This allowed
us the opportunity to reach a new level. She left us with
benchmarks to obtain, visions to our term duties, and professional
as well as personal transformations." "Ms. Walston conducted a seminar for our employees with the
goal of achieving better communication with each other and
also with our clients and vendors. She not only presented
a broad overview of the varying personality types and generational
differences which can have an effect on communication, but
also addressed specific problems with which several employees
were trying to cope. Her style and enthusiasm encourages participants
to open up and become actively involved in the discussions.
It seemed that several employees came away with new approaches
to try regarding conflict and communicating with others."
"I first met Sandra at a health care conference. She was
one of the most highly informed, organized, knowledgeable,
and energized presenters I had ever experienced. I immediately
contracted with her to present at one of my regional sales
meetings. We asked her to apply her Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
expertise. My team valued Sandra's ability to communicate
the variety and value of different preferences during the
sales exchange. She blended her diverse business careers to
apply effective strategies to approach the people side of
the selling process. I observed an increased knowledge base
and better understanding of the customer by my sales team,
and I also saw a marked increase in sales." "Ms. Walston helped give our law board definition, a method
of planning, personality profiles, and conflict management
tools and provided direction in achieving the business goals
that were set. Ms. Walston is intelligent, gregarious, and
articulate. She is an exceptional mentor, trainer, and speaker.
I found her to have a high moral and ethical commitment to
her clients, and she made every effort to ensure that she
delivered above the standard expectations. I am continually
impressed with her pursuit of additional knowledge through
her completion of her book COURAGE and her various certifications
that keep her on the cutting edge of personal and professional
development." "I was especially impressed with Sandra's ability to lead
a diverse group into observing how their Emotional Intelligence
(EQ) levels support or undermine the 'mood' of the total work
environment. The EQ program was both insightful and immediately
applicable to a wide range of participants. Her exercises
reflected a building-block awareness of each participant's
particular style in the workplace. Ms. Walston has many special
qualities necessary to lead and involve any group. She is
personable, well informed, and flexible. Her communication
skills are entertaining and powerful, her sensitivity to the
reactions of each participant and the group, in addition to
a keen sense of behavioral manners allows her to reach and
relate to everyone present. She strives for accountability
in each participant and maintains high standard for her own
performance. My high regard of this program led me to contract
with Sandra to conduct EQ training for all of my departments
of law." Accountants/Chief Financial Officers "Are you seeking a speaker, facilitator, or seminar leader
who consistently receives comments like "enriching, thought
provoking, entertaining, eloquent, energetic, trusted advisor,
insightful, humorous, and playful"? Do you want to look good
when the evaluation ratings (highest rating 5.0) consistently
reach 5.0? Stop now, and hire Sandra Ford Walston, you won't
be disappointed and neither will the audience. As a matter
of fact, you will always want to hire her back-that's what
I did! Utilizing her diverse business background, Sandra has
a keen insight about how to provide practical and applicable
skills, and how to hold people accountable for the results."
"I believe Sandra has many special qualities necessary to
lead others in developing their personal communication skills
and style. Her ability to communicate her thoughts in a clear
manner and her sensitivity to others' reactions are extremely
well developed. Her diversity of work experience enables her
bring important practical considerations to the classroom.
Sandra is an extremely capable woman with very high standards
for performance. She is very personable, and has an uncanny
ability to make people feel at ease." "Our lively summer conference group certainly got into the
'Hello Saturn! Hello Neptune!' program, and they really participated.
The evaluation forms reveal how everyone loved the program
and how they gained a lot from the material presented. We
will have you back to present some of your other topics. Thank
you for much for the energy and enthusiasm you gave to the
program." "Whether Sandra is coaching, consulting, speaking, or training,
I am continually impressed with her ability to convey, in
understandable terms, the behavioral changes required improving
job performance. One of the best decisions I have made was
to hire her to conduct a customized team-building course for
the long-term top management (and myself). Sandra utilized
the comprehensive Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to establish
the team and individual communication preferences. Her wit,
knowledge, and commitment to excellence moved our team to
establish goals to take the business to the next level. Because
of Sandra's team building exercises and her expert analysis,
we have grown into a more productive and cohesive management
group." "Sandra does not spare herself the extra trouble of counseling
those who are lucky enough to retain her services as a guide
to organizational development. She exposed me to the Enneagram
system of personality classification. Both as a tool as self-knowledge
and as a means of understanding the motivation of others and
their preferred working styles and problem-solving techniques,
the Enneagram is unique in its ability to be used almost immediately
in everyday business and social settings for enhancing communications
with others. I have found the Enneagram most useful for understanding
my own adaptive style of life. Ms. Walston is the best kind
of teacher. Her students learn how to teach themselves." "Sandra always took the time to customize her presentations
to the particular audience and she consistently received the
highest marks in the evaluations of her seminars. She brings
tremendous energy to her presentations; she is totally engaged
with the participants 100% of the time; she is fully committed
to each session she leads; she encourages participation; she
listens to her audience; she 'reads' her audience so that
she is flexible and able to adapt on the spot; and she has
a can-do attitude that is contagious." "Sandra Walston has incredible finesse as a presenter. Her
recognition as a national speaker is a credit, but I found
her energetic, enthusiastic, and engaging style of presenting
information to be just what we needed. You are a bundle of
energy and a motivational speaker on numerous subjects. Sandra
engaged the staff during the initial training session and
was able to teach them to ask more questions and to better
discern customer needs. We experienced a tremendous improvement
in customer satisfaction as noted by comment cards sent in
by the citizens." "I applaud you on your excellence in training and motivation.
Your abilities to customize training to fit the individual
unit's needs have been an inspiration to not only staff, but
they have served as a personal inspiration. I have attended
many of your presentations and have had a shift of attitude
and enlightenment that has touched my personal and work life—a
paradigm shift that will stay with me forever. Your ability
to communicate on all levels with a widespread group of culturally
diverse participants, along with the ability to shift methods
of communication on a moment's notice, is an admirable gift
that reaches all levels of staff from many different backgrounds."
"Sandra has been working with my staff in areas of communication,
change, leadership, and conflict resolution. Her advice, insight,
and console have proven to be genuinely beneficial to all
participants and pertinent to current management issues. Her
communication style utilizes a high level of energy and dialogue
with our staff and leads them into a process of self-discovery
and awareness. She has proven to be invaluable in developing
the leadership potential of our staff." National Speakers Association Colleagues "Sandra Ford Walston is a top professional. I had the pleasure
of participating her 'Meet the Pros' presentation at the NSA
Winter Educational Conference. Sandra's presentation called
'Break All the Odds, Defy the Rules: Do You Have the Courage
to Launch a Book?' was a great success. I expressed the same
comments as fellow colleagues—creative, clever, and insightful.
The fun personality test she designed revealed whether we
had the courage to launch a book—it sure pegged me! Sandra
excels in helping others propel their potential. She is warm,
giving, encouraging, and very knowledgeable. She takes time
to teach, inspire, and she tells it like it is." "Here's an author you will want to know about-Sandra Ford
Walston. She has written a beautiful book for women on courage.
When I picked up COURAGE: The Heart and Spirit of Every
Woman/Reclaiming the Forgotten Virtue, I felt wisdom ooooozing
from each page. It's substantial and lovely. Her keynote would
be great for any conference." |
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