About
- I am passionate about helping leaders uncover the real causes of their organization’s challenges and gain insights that empower leaders to improve their organization’s health and effectiveness to get results. Many leaders are promoted into their positions because of their functional expertise and success. However, just because one is in a position of leadership does not mean that the leader has experience building and sustaining healthy, effective organizations. This is my expertise. I help clients to:
- Align on goals, roles, and strategic priorities
- Build trusted relationships
- Increase collaboration
- Develop broader leadership mindsets, behaviors, and capabilities
- Create organization cultures that engage employees in finding meaning, growth, and fulfillment in their work
Marisa Sanchez, PhD brings over 25 years of experience in strategic management and organization development consulting to both the public and private sectors. She is both an experienced program manager and facilitator, and draws on her coaching skills to work closely with C-suite organizational leaders.
She incorporates team building in her work with groups both small and large, addressing both mission content and group dynamics to increase the organization’s effectiveness. Her consulting approach uniquely focuses on achieving results by integrating deep knowledge and expertise in organization development, project management, and business strategy.
She incorporates team building in her work with groups both small and large, addressing both mission content and group dynamics to increase the organization’s effectiveness. Her consulting approach uniquely focuses on achieving results by integrating deep knowledge and expertise in organization development, project management, and business strategy.
As an independent consultant since 2003, Dr. Sanchez has facilitated organizational change in many federal civilian agencies and defense departments, including the Army Contracting Command, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Department of Transportation.
Prior to starting her own practice, she worked at American Management Systems, Inc. (now CGI, Inc.), consulting globally to financial institutions and telecommunications firms, including AT&T, Australia New Zealand Bank, IBM, and Security First Network Bank (now a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada).
Dr. Sanchez specializes in helping organizations adopt new systems and technology. She draws on a variety of business and organization development models and tools in her work with clients. Her practice areas include performance consulting, team effectiveness, process improvement, program management, change management, and strategic planning and management.
She has specific experience working in CIO organizations supporting large-scale technology change, particularly utilizing technology frameworks such as SEI-CMMI, ITIL, ERP, PMI PMBOK, and KM/SharePoint. As a certified instructor at Management Concepts, Dr. Sanchez taught courses on Leading and Managing Change and The Balanced Scorecard.
Marisa Sanchez, PhD, earned a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Human and Organization Systems from Fielding Graduate University, publishing her doctoral dissertation on collaboration and power entitled Interorganizational Collaboration within a Hierarchical Configuration of Parent and Subsidiary Corporations. Prior degrees include a Bachelor of Science (BS) in both Computer Science and Psychology from Duke University, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Georgetown University.
Dr. Sanchez served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Organization Development Network, an international professional association serving over 2,500 members. She has been a speaker at the Maryland Non-Profit Conference, Association of Government Accountability, Socio-Economic Approach to Management International, Maryland Mediators Convention, the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) Potomac Chapter, Human Resource Association of Southern Maryland, Virginia State Conference for the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM), Organization Development Network (ODN), Chesapeake Bay Organization Development Network (CBODN), and Software Engineering Institute’s Software Architecture Technology User Network. Dr. Sanchez has authored a number of articles in the OD Practitioner, Journal of the Organization Development Network.