Adjunct Faculty

Sandra Stewart

E-mail: sandras@umd.edu

Sandra Stewart

Sandi Stewart is the owner of SLS Coaching & Consulting an executive coaching and consulting firm. She is an executive coach and consultant in public, private and non-profit sectors assisting executives with leadership development and organizational change. Sandi has worked with individuals and teams in a host of companies and organizations including Lockheed Martin, Ernst & Young, Fannie Mae, Goal Financial, Tetra Tech, Cemex N.A., PBS, Red Cross and U.S. Department of Commerce. Sandi’s areas of focus include: Leadership Development, Strategic Planning, Organizational Change, Team Dynamics, Career Development & Change, and Life Balance.

Previous to coaching and consulting, Sandi’s career has spanned a number of industries in her roles as manager, marketer and strategic planner including manufacturing, engineering services, healthcare, cable TV, publishing, non-profit services. She was a manager with Johnson & Johnson, McNeil Specialty Products which developed and launched the company’s first food additive product, Splenda. Sandi led the marketing for the New Products division of Ferrera, N.A. and managed the marketing department for a medical publishing division of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and worked with Hearst/ABC/Viacom in the early days of Cable TV. This experience, an M.B.A., and her more than 15 years of consulting and coaching has given her a breadth of understanding of the diverse challenges executives face.

Sandi has a B.A. in Psychology and French from Colgate University and a M.B.A from Columbia University. She trained as a coach with Coach University and Corporate Coach University. She is a Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and a Certified Behavioral and Motivational Analyst through Target Training International. Sandi has been featured in national and local print publications and radio. She is quoted in “Simply Brilliant: Life Lessons from America’s Top Personal and Business Coaches” and “The Women’s Home-Based Business Book of Answers”.

Sandi has worked with full time, part-time and executive MBAs at the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business in both career and leadership development and is an adjunct professor teaching Leadership Development.