Sabrina Sullivan (She / Her) Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Ab, Ca

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

www.byandby.caFocusing on applied strategic foresight to create a future of choice over a future of constraint - by + by equips individuals and organization with the foresight, tools, and strategies to confidently navigate your future, ensuring that they're not just reactive, but proactively shaping their tomorrow.

London, London, Gb

Drive the expansion and execution of our Strategic Foresight practice. In this role, I collaborate closely with clients to address their most critical strategic questions facing the future of their business, ensuring they are prepared for emerging trends and uncertainties. By developing strategic partnerships with clients and other organizations, I'm focused on progressing the practice and substance of foresight within organizations to truly embed and derive value from the work, tangibly driving growth, innovation and transformation.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Working across the organization to deliver insights and guide strategic discussions based on strategic foresight research and practice. This role includes ongoing identifying, tracking, and analyzing societal and consumer trends, consulting and collaborating with skill teams and functions across the organization on business implications. Our primary objective is to drive strategic thinking, innovation, and confident decision-making within the organization by challenging our current assumptions, ensuring a long-term view and thinking differently.

Calgary, Ab, Ca

As a leader of the Catalyst Group In service to the Academic division, Sabrina spearheaded transformation and strategic efforts to cultivate valued and differentiated student experiences for the digital future. This included leading and facilitating strategy development for division, school and programmatic innovation (e.g., Fintech major, EV integration, energy transition), developing new approaches to strengthen industry relations and harness industry insights to anticipate evolving talent needs, developing programming to support shifting leader and staff mindsets to navigate accelerating change, and driving experimentation with advanced digital technology that could revolutionize approaches to post-secondary and applied education.

Calgary, Ab, Ca

SAIT’s School for Advanced Digital Technology was launched and funded with a focus empowering and developing people to thrive, lead, and create our digital society. As Director, Transformation and Ecosystem, Sabrina harnessed her expertise in digital technologies, strategic foresight, innovation and co-creation to shape and execute pivotal strategies during SADT's initial launch phase. This included building and leading a team to enable the potential of the schools across SAIT to accelerate adoption of advanced digital technology, understand the implications of digital on their areas of focus, and foster future ready talent. As the ecosystem portfolio leader, Sabrina also focused on building and strengthening SADT / SAIT's role in the digital talent ecosystem and ensuring a connection to the talent, competencies and skills needs for in the emerging fields of digital transformation, digital intelligence / literacy and economic diversification.

Worldwide, Oo

Based in the Greenhouse program's newest state of the art facility in Calgary, Sabrina serves as the face and “driver” of the growth of the Greenhouse program and brand in permanent and pop-up locations of Western Canada. The role focuses on a combination of facilitation and design of sessions for key Western Canadian clients to help accelerate problem solving and breakthroughs, market/client facing activities, as well as connecting with and helping build the innovation ecosystem in Western Canada.

Worldwide, Oo

Manager on the Deloitte Greenhouse Experience team, a resource that leverages the power of design thinking to empower teams to create breakthrough solutions to key business challenges. This involves designing and delivering one to two day facilitated. interactive experiences to to guide client executives and their teams through strategic conversations around messy, multi-faceted challenges to help them collaboratively reach breakthrough insightsDeloitte Greenhouse is an innovative environment and methodology that changes the way our clients solve business challenges. By taking participants outside of their everyday environments, Greenhouse sessions disrupt conventional thinking, spur creativity, bring about new perspectives, and lead to tangible solutions. We apply a tested set of principles that combine behavioral science, analytics, technology, and facilitation to break through traditional methods of problem-solving. Find out more about Deloitte Canada’s Greenhouse - https://www2.deloitte.com/ca/en/misc/litetopicpage.global-topic-tags.deloitte-greenhouse.html

Lead business development efforts for new innovation data service helping corporations identify how specific behaviors, cultural orientations, and organizational competencies contribute to growth, profit and efficiency. Led consulting work with the Detroit Symphony to improve its digital presence.

Collaborate with co-founders in launch a family of companies serving individual, institutional and foundation investors with social responsible investment options.

Leading and supporting instruction in the classroom and one-on-one settings to promote student learning in the following areas:-Global Systems Thinking, including developing a set of communication, visioning and conversational skills associated with systemic leadership for a sustainable future.-Basic and advanced Systems Dynamics Modeling skills using state-of-the-art Stella computer simulation software for enhancing mental models and understanding of complex systems.-Awareness, sensitivity and literacy regarding Global Environmental and Social Change, including challenges such as population growth, persistent poverty, social disintegration, biodiversity loss, climate change, freshwater scarcity, gender bias, megacities, food insecurity, political instability, terrorism, etc., focusing especially on the roles of business in relation to these challenges-Core tenets of Sustainable Human Development and Enterprise as an ongoing, adaptive learning process, examining “what if” possibilities regarding future development pathways and exploring the most promising opportunities for business in helping to ensure that human needs are met while the planet’s life-supporting environment is nurtured and restored.

Lead discussions and exercises to assist in understanding various definitions of leadership, tools and approaches to collaboration, and students' informal influence, power and ability to affect change through effective leadership and collaboration techniques. Additionally, coaching of student groups on semester-long projects focused on addressing a need in the University of Michigan community or on-campus, is required in this highly-action based, "leadership lab" oriented Undergraduate course.

Calgary, Ab, Ca

Led client work including collaboration on an educational film project on the energy industry (current and future) featured at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Board of Director strategy and visioning development for leading Canadian outdoor apparel retailer, and stakeholder facilitation on the future of the electrical grid with the Province of Alberta.

Chicago, Il, Us

Increasing viability of deconstruction and building material reuse as a Board Member and Chair of regional policy working group for the Chicago’s ReBuilding Exchange. ReBuilding Exchange is a Chicago based social venture that partners with the National Building Material ReUse Assocation and Illinois, Indiana and Michigan state / county representatives to build out the deconstruction marketplace and green job opportunities.

Directed early-stage startup in Cleantech incubator on US market entry strategy for its patented, non-toxic, bio-remediation solution for oil spill cleanup; led to securing targeted US field pilots to test market assumptions.

Supported course and project development for innovative MBA course at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. "Social Intrapreneurship: Leading Social Innovation in Organizations" teaches a practical toolkit for driving social and environmental change from within established organizations. Concepts include: frameworks and tools for reading the environment for opportunities, analyzing networks and corporate communications, and making a persuasive case for social innovation. Live cases are also conducted to draw on the first-hand experiences of intrapreneurs who are currently seeking to create business lines and organizational changes that are both financially viable and achieve outcomes extending beyond profits. More information is available at www.grassroots-social-innovation.com

Seeking to bring creativity and ideas to local and global citizens by organizing TEDxWinnipeg, and participating in other global TED events.

Supported course delivery and action-based student project coordination for the University of Michigan Ross School of Business' course - "MO563: Leading Creativity and Innovation".This course is designed to introduce students to the practices necessary to stimulate and manage innovation in a business. Within the course, students are given frameworks and methods for designing, developing and implementing innovation in real work situations. The aim of the course is to provide students with the perspective and skill base necessary to manage innovation-focused projects, people and ventures.

Devised business model and strategy to distribute solar lanterns to people without access to clean, affordable electricity in Rwanda, resulting in receipt of $1M in funding from the Global Sustainable Electrification Partnership for expansion to South America, Asia and other African countries.

Provided strategic input to Ford's "Blueprint for Urban Mobility" as a lead on consumer, trend and urban mobility research; now serves as a basis for Executive Automotive Strategy discussions on Ford’s role as a mobility provider. Also advised pilot program, in collaboration with the US State Department, exploring ways to use vehicles /technology to address social/environmental needs in developing nations, leading to comprehensive feasibility tests of new products, improved health of target populations, and lives saved; now a distinct social enterprise funded by Ford Chairman Bill Ford.

Developed organizational strategy for this non-profit focused on combatting human trafficking. (Formerly Managing Director and Communications Director, prior to assuming Board Position.)

Supported lecture development, student evaluation, in addition to leading student discussion and lab sessions and student project coaching for ENV111: Global Change - Human Impacts at the University of Michigan. Global Change: Human Impacts, involves students engaging with and studying the recent, explosive growth of the human population, and the impacts on land, air and water resources, and biological diversity produced by human advances in technology and institutions. The course concludes by considering the political and policy considerations relevant to a more sustainable future. In addition to discussions, hands-on simulations with Geographic Information Systems (ArcGIS) are used to investigate the spatial impacts of today's activities.

Worldwide, Oo

Worked with client senior management to develop analyses and extract insights to support strategic decisions and implement improvements that increase the company's performance. Focusing on on "executable strategy", Sabrina worked in multiple industries including Consuer Products, Transportation, Energy and Mining, Technology and Manufacturing, and executing on multiple service offerings including those in Deloitte's corporate strategy, customer profitability, enterprise sustainability and supply chain.Sample internal and external client pursuits include:-Formulated recommendations for 5 year $20M sustainability plan of a multinational oil producer as output of a benchmarking exercise of sustainability initiatives-Designed novel service based pricing / profitability program for leading consumer product manufacturer amplifying supply chain efficiency, capturing $20M in savings-Identified as Western Canadian lead to create and introduce social media intelligence offering, including presentations to internal and external clients on business use of social media and intelligence tools to minimize risk and identify opportunities-Proposed and oversaw sustainability partnership initiatives in Mid-West United States: The Green Business Forum, a partnership between Deloitte and Chicago Chamber of Commerce; Midwest Energy and Sustainability Leadership Alliance (MESLA) between Deloitte, the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University (ISEN) and leading Midwest businessses

Innovated new product portfolio management approach to manage the technology / product pipeline from idea through commercialization, now utilized by R&D function. Also, served as sole International Market Analyst which involved developing business cases and proposals for international business expansion opportunities, leading to a pilot and strategic alliances in Russia and Japan.

Montréal, Quebec, Ca

Ms, Sustainable Systems

Mba, Strategy

Bachelor Of Commerce, Marketing