Sandra Stewart, MCC, MBA is an executive, team and group coach as well as a coaching and leadership program consultant with her firm SLS Coaching & Consulting established in 1999. She is an instructor for Leadership Coaching for Organizational Performance at AU and Foundations of Coaching at NYU. In her book Building the Core Competencies of Change: A Guide to Coaching in Organizations she defines coaching and how to deploy coaching in organizations. She is also a contributor to the academic text Building an Organizational Coaching Culture. She is a member of the ACMP/ICF Task Force exploring synergies between coaching and change management. She serves on the ICF Independent Review Board adjudicating ethics complaints worldwide. She received her MBA from Columbia University Business School and her BA from Colgate University.