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.
Sandra Wegmann, Principal
professional summary
Sandra Wegmann, Principal and Founder, is driven to help leaders and groups live into their brightest visions’. 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. The consultancy offers leadership coaching and small leadership team engagements to facilitate strategic direction. As a facilitator, she helps strengthen collective thinking around strategy development and implementation, often integrating 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.
Sandra is particularly passionate about supporting women leaders, across racial and cultural identities, to increase their organizational impact while integrating their sense of self into work/life goals. She is an ACC level certified coach through the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
Sandra brings curiosity and experience to collaborating across difference. Her work is informed by significant international experience. She invested many of her early years studying and living in Brazil and then pursued a career facilitating equity-centered approaches.
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.
“I brought Sandra on in 2014 in a consulting role before I actually started at EHF to help me start EHF. Her thoughtful questions brought my vision for EHF further to light.”
