Sandra Hayes

Dr. Sandra Hayes is an associate consultant of c-Growth. She is a learning and development expert. She consults with organizations to cultivate leaders and teams to take productive action. Her clients tend to have already achieved impressive accomplishments and value how working with her enables them to realize important new successes.

Particularly, clients appreciate her expertise designing and delivering programs that help them improve performance and produce their envisioned results.

Dr. Hayes leverages her background in adult learning, collaborative negotiation, and leadership to help clients learn to navigate increasingly complex workplaces. She earned a doctorate in Adult Learning and Organizational Leadership, Columbia University; a master’s in Organizational Psychology, Columbia University; and a bachelor’s degree in Communications, University of Washington. She received coach certification through the Columbia Coach Certification Program where she is on the core faculty.

Dr. Hayes is a co-editor and chapter author of the first Practitioners Handbook of Team Coaching (Routledge, 2019). She is an adult education expert whose passion for learning has resulted in contributions that also include:

• Chapter Co-Author, Collaborative Inquiry in Action: Transformative Learning through Co-Inquiry, “Transformative Learning in Action: Handbook of Practice” Jack Mezirow- Teacher’s College – Columbia University, Ed Taylor – Penn State ( 2009).

• Issue Editor and Chapter Author, Arts and Societal Learning: Transforming Communities Socially, Politically, and Culturally; New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education, December 2007.

• Presenter, Beyond Leader Development: Exploring the use of coinquiry methodologies for leadership development International Leadership Association conference, Los Angeles, CA.

• Presenter, Increasing Competence Facilitating Strategic Learning Through Inquiry Society for Organizational Learning Global Forum; Vienna, Austria.

• Presenter, Action Technologies Pre-Conference, Collaborative Inquiry Adult Education Research Conference; University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

• Dr. Hayes loves the arts and is fascinated by the potential of the arts for bridging boundaries, broadening perspectives, and deepening understanding of the complexities around us.