CEO and Founder of The Innovation Partners, she is a dynamic innovation entrepreneur, marketing strategist, speaker and author. She has mentored, coached and led more than 100 innovation initiatives, helping her executive teams launch award winning products, services and programs.
Her clients include Fortune 100 companies and mid sized organizations in dozens of industries, non-profits, and government agencies. She has been a thought leader for breakthrough innovation programs for the past twenty years. She has also served as Chief Marketing Officer for two entrepreneurial organizations, one of which she took public in March 2000.
Sandy has most recently turned her focus to social innovation – applying the same successful innovation techniques to complex problems that our society struggles with such as health care, education, natural resource management, homelessness, government innovation, and many others. She was also heavily involved in the writing and publication of What Customers Want (by Anthony Ulwick)
Sandy currently serves on the Edison Award steering committee, the advisory board of TIC Biomed in Murcia, Spain, and provides marketing expertise to up-and-coming entrepreneurs at University of NC Wilmington’s Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and serves other local boards in her hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina.