Teach, guide, lead and coach graduate and undergraduate students in leadership, change management, critical thinking and AI change management.

Has taught many courses as an Associate Professor and Visiting Professor at DeVry University and Keller Graduate School of Business since 2012. Specializes in business, leadership, change management and innovation. Students seek to attend multiple courses by Professor Sanders.

As we go through the Artificial Intelligence transition, many company leaders, faculty and employees need a guiding sounding board and someone to create change management processes. I have the change management persuasion skills to help be the guide and sounding board as well as your designer/implementer of the change process with your team(s).

Completed my Ph.D. in Workforce Development and Organizational Leadership. Focus of the dissertation research wass mitigating individual's resistance to organizational change through metaphors and a neuro linguistic pattern.

Delivered successful customized solutions for clients' unique organizational development needs, including strategic planning, leadership training, team building, and sales and customer service skill development. Offered design and implementation of easily administered competency models that can be used for selection, coaching, training and mentoring. Facilitated strategic planning sessions with leadership to improve overall productivity. The goals and strategies provide achievable organizational directions for profit and nonprofit organizations.Facilitated 360 degree group interviews developing the managers and employees to evaluate leadership, and to design and deliver leadership training and coaching to improve management-employee communications and relationships. Implemented successful customized learning projects for unique client needs. We listened to what our clients want and then designed the program to help their team achieve more Relevant Certfications:Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming.Neuro Linguistic Programming Trainer teaching executives and sales people to achieve more.

Leads adjunct faculty, and develops and evaluates faculty skills in the school of business. Coaches, trains and evaluates faculty in facilitation skills and instructional design and delivery skills.Trained faculty how to use Neuro Linguistic Programming to increase memory retention and improve performance.Teaches by using effective training approaches in Transformational Leadership, Organizational Development, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Culture, Ethics and Management courses in MBA and undergraduate programs.

Directed all sales, customer service and marketing training and development for $1.2 billion health insurance corporation. Worked closely with sales leadership to create a competitive advantage and a positive organizational culture. Consistently developing innovative approaches to training and organizational and professional development. Successfully coached executives during difficult organizational culture and development changes through acquisitions, expansions, and quality improvement major initiatives.Working with the senior executives of these organizations to plan and create training, coaching, competency development/improvement and positive organizational culture initiatives.Initiated and implemented performance and skill development which improved sales over the 15% average closing ratio per year for more than 8 years, where the industry average was 10%.Created and managed Corporate Sales Training department, hiring and developing trainers to design, develop and deliver training to improve performance and skills with measurable results.Empowered 4 sales trainers to create exceptional training and coaching in sales training approaches designed for the specific needs of the customer and products offered. Average year, over 200 skills and product workshops were offered to audiences in multiple states. Innovated easy to use customized Competency Models, teaching trainers and managers to effectively use them during selection, coaching and performance review sessions.Implementation of the Sales Competency Model resulted in over 20% improvement in distinct sales and account retention skills and behaviors within six months and yielding observable results measured by increased bottom line results.Developed and conducted new comprehensive sales staff certification one week training program reducing previous total onboarding process from 12 weeks to 6 weeks. Tests were given in each training section with 95% proficiency average by all participants.