Sandra is a coach, a facilitator and a strategist. A creative, collaborative capacity builder, she is known for her ability to generate clarity of purpose.

professional summary

Sandra is driven to help leaders and groups not only clarify intended results but also to execute on a vision. Her passion is supporting inventive, shared strategies to advance equitable outcomes. Sandra has more than 20 years of experience bringing people together to address complex social issues and to forge social change, mostly within the Houston region.

In June of 2019 she launched Wegmann & Associates in order to support leaders and groups driving toward equity goals. In addition to leadership coaching, her consultancy provides a suite of organizational development resources including leadership team facilitation, support for strategy development/implementation, and Emergent Learning practices.

Sandra embraces core values that include learning, creativity, courage, vision and growth in her personal and professional life. Her lived experience with setbacks help her to connect with clients that seek coaching to broaden possibilities and accelerate their results. Her organizational development skill deepens client impact. She brings broad experience and knowledge in systems thinking and participatory methodologies. She is an Advanced Practitioner in Emergent Learning and a certified Professional Diversity Coach.

Her coaching practice helps women leaders, across racial and cultural identities, increase their organizational impact. Recent clients include leaders from philanthropy and academia, as well as a group of nonprofit CEOs funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation Racial Justice Leaders program - in partnership with CoachDiversity Institute.

Sandra’s focus is coaching leaders that struggle with bringing a vision - whether it is an organizational vision, a work/life vision or a community vision - to fruition. Leveraging a DEI lens, she supports women to align values, voice and vision in the context of their distinct identities.

Sandra has considerable working knowledge and experience in postsecondary success and community health locally. This experience includes work with The Episcopal Health Foundation and Center for Houston’s Future. As a consultant for the Greater Houston Opportunity Youth Collaborative (GHOYC) since 2020, her collaborative planning efforts resulted in a series of Aspen Institute funding awards and the engagement of more than 60 organizations in college and career pathways development for marginalized youth. Additional clients include The Kresge Foundation, Methodist Healthcare Ministries, The East End District, Wesley Community Center and The Rose.

She has a dual Master’s Degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Institute of Latin American Studies at U.T. Austin. Sandra enjoys the outdoors, running, and the arts and culture scene. She lives in Houston with her daughter and her husband, Mayank.