Sandra Martínez, Ph.D

Sandra M. Martínez is the President of Fénix Leadership & Development, LLC, a thought leader in leadership development and organizational transformation. She enables innovation, growth and transformation in businesses, government agencies, and non-profits in the U.S. and abroad through executive coaching and the design and delivery of leadership and organizational development programs, seamlessly integrating with internal teams.

Understanding & Leveraging the Creative Tensions of Innovation & Creativity

by Sandra Martínez, Ph.D
Blog
April 8, 2019June 18, 2019

I’ll come clean. Although I work today as an executive coach and organizational consultant, was formerly on the faculty of the USAWC and taught at… Read More »

How Culturally Aware are You?

by Sandra Martínez, Ph.D
Blog
April 8, 2019April 8, 2019

Don’t dismiss it as PC posturing. Recognizing the varied backgrounds of your team and accommodating those differences in positive ways can help maximize any group’s… Read More »

Accelerating Leadership Development for Women: Presentation about Polarity Mapping at HBA Annual Conference

by Sandra Martínez, Ph.D
Blog
April 8, 2019April 14, 2019

I spent this past week in Philadelphia with 1,100 committed and talented women at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Healthcare Business Women’s Association (HBA).… Read More »

Finding Inspiration and Leadership Learning in Beethoven’s Pathetique

by Sandra Martínez, Ph.D
Blog
April 8, 2019April 8, 2019

As an antidote to the current affairs occupying citizens in the US and throughout the world, I would like to muse about music in this… Read More »

The Risky Leadership Gap

by Sandra Martínez, Ph.D
Blog
December 30, 2016December 31, 2016

A sizable gap currently exists between our collective ideas about good leadership and what we find demonstrated to be the capacities and qualities of effective… Read More »

On ‘Otherness’ and Leadership in Today’s World

by Sandra Martínez, Ph.D
Blog
December 28, 2016November 19, 2017

In his recent memoir, “World Order,” former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recounts an exchange between the Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai and himself during his… Read More »