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 live into their boldest visions’. Her passion is supporting inventive, shared strategies to advance equitable outcomes. For the past two decades, Sandra has facilitated and co-led innovative efforts to address complex health and education issues. She has led programs and initiatives at the Episcopal Health Foundation, the Center for Houston’s Future, the Latin American Health Institute and Massasoit Community College.

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 early loss helps her connect with clients seeking to recover from setbacks while moving toward their dreams.

Her work is informed by significant international experience, including immersive research in Brazil through undergraduate and graduate work in Latin American Studies. Sandra is trilingual and began her career developing health networks, training and policy resources for Spanish and Portuguese speakers in the Boston area. She brings complementary experience in systems thinking, collective learning and stakeholder engagement.

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. She enjoys supporting leaders from a wide range of backgrounds in their efforts to amplify results.

Sandra has considerable working knowledge and experience in postsecondary success and community health locally. As a consultant for the Greater Houston Opportunity Youth Collaborative (GHOYC) and the Alliance of Community Assistance Ministries (ACAM) from 2020-2023, 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 Episcopal Health Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, Methodist Healthcare Ministries, Feeding America, The East End District, Wesley Community Center and Working Partner.

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