Marisa Sanchez, PhD brings over 20 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 organization effectiveness.
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, KM/SharePoint. As a certified instructor at Management Concepts, Dr. Sanchez taught courses on Leading and Managing Change and The Balanced Scorecard.
Marisa Sanchez 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 Bachelor of Science (BS) in both Computer Science and Psychology from Duke University and Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Georgetown University.
Dr. Sanchez served three years (two as Chair) on the Board of Trustees of the Organization Development Network, an international professional association serving over 2,500 organization development practitioner members. She has been a speaker at the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) Potomac Chapter, Virginia State Conference for the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM), the Organization Development Network (ODN), and the Chesapeake Bay Organization Development Network (CBODN). Dr. Sanchez co-authored Emergence in Action: Reflecting on Our Practice Through the Lens of Complexity, OD Practitioner, Journal of the Organization Development Network (Summer 2007).
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