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Sandra Sault Poulson
Biography
Sandra Sault Poulson is a seasoned organizational consultant, visionary change agent and dedicated mom. Sandra is principal of RealTrust Consulting, which focuses on organization development and culture change to achieve sustainability. Sandra’s practice develops leadership skills, awareness and collective capacity to achieve sustainability by orchestrating collaboration across sectors, silos and issues to achieve systemic, whole systems change. Sandra’s practice provides design and facilitation of organizational change strategies, collaborative processes, cross-sector learning communities, and group events/retreats to realize whole systems change within organizations.
Most recently, Sandra co-founded Sustainable Cascadia with colleague, David Johnston. Sustainable Cascadia is a west coast bioregional initiative to achieve sustainability in one generation. It’s a 5 year effort at large scale cooperation that accelerates progress and shows success is possible. The initiative builds participation through a series of Cascadia Convergence events on sustainability and collaborative technology/infrastructure to augment work between events. Sandra led event design and development for a very successful 2 day Cascadia Convergence on October 26-27, 2007 which attracted over 40 organizations and 600 individuals to participate.
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More about Sandra....
>> Sandra is a board member of the Whidbey Institute, which holds a mission of Earth, Spirit and the Human Future. Sandra collaborated on the development of a new program series, “Spirit and Practice of a Bioregion.”
>> Sandra served the host team for Imagine Cascadia, an experiment in imagining a desired future with the people of the Cascadia Bioregion, sponsored by Seattle Biotech Legacy Foundation. Sandra collaborated on the design and facilitation of events hosting over 125 people in conversations of discovery. The event proceedings are informing the development of a network of cooperation for imagining a 100 year vision and to orchestrate massive collaboration across the bioregion on a shared path forward.
>> Sandra consults in the development of cross-sector learning communities, and partnered with Interra and the Institute for the Future to design a learning community for the Stanford University course “Toward a Literacy of Cooperation.” This course examined the role of technology as a new medium of communication in the evolution of cooperation and posed new possibilities for concerted action. The cooperation studies group continues to meet, explore, learn and collaborate after 3 years of steady participation.
>> Sandra has consulted on culture integration for merger/acquisitions for the Amgen acquisition of Immunex, change management, executive coaching, strategic visioning, organization culture transformation, team building, executive retreat design and facilitation, process improvement, employee development, and corporate training for Vacation Internationale, Goodwill Industries, Kaiser Permanente, Berlex and others.
>> Sandra led pioneering work to write and publish a narrative study of organizational culture for Immunex Corporation’s 20 year history entitled What’s Made Us Immunex - A Story of Transformation and Evolution. The story supported organizational adaptation when Amgen acquired Immunex and spurred new forms of cultural continuance through the founding of Seattle Biotech Legacy Foundation and funding the Immunex Exhibit at the Museum of History of Science and Industry in Seattle.
>> Sandra has served non-profits, public sector and corporate clients within biotech, healthcare, local government, manufacturing, defense, environmental consulting, hospitality, education and the food industry.
>> Sandra holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington and a MA in Whole Systems Design/Organizational Systems Renewal from Antioch University.
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