"Relational Leadership"

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Sandy Costa is a 30 year top level corporate leader. A veteran CEO renowned for his insights and relational leadership practices honed in the years of explosive growth in the global pharma market. Among many facets of his watch at Quintiles Transnational Corp. he oversaw successful integration of over 40 acquisitions managing revenues of 1.7 billion and increasing the employee base from 1000 in 9 countries to 20,000 in 31 countries.

A gracious and crowd inspiring speaker and author of the book, “Humanity at Work: Encouraging Spirit, Achievement and Truth To flourish in the Workplace”. Sandy is also a winner of  awards and other forms of recognition for outstanding achievement. He is one of the only voices of experience today offering a pathway critical to the direction leaders are desperately searching for to solve costly employee dissonance and entrenched  non-performance and disengagement issues in their corporate culture.

On the platform Sandy offers practical, tactical take- aways for  the  SPIRIT, for the mind and for the heart with warmth, wit, expert storytelling and spirit filled teaching.  Reviews for Sandy and the book all rave, ”Sandy Costa upsets stereotypes of CEOs by his deep humanity, obvious affection for his people and hopeful insights for living...  He is open to his own emotions, explicit in his human analysis and wise in his understading of relationships... His life-view reflects a healthy understanding of God's creation and opens our hearths to seek how we might best serve in our leading”

During his career in the pharmaceutical industry Sandy chaired several corporate crisis management committees. He sits on a number of corporate boards and has chaired the boards of five companies. In his distinguished corporate career he has revolutionized the review process and skillsets for team relationship intelligence. Sandy is married and lives with his wife Jean Anne in North Carolina. Together they support many charities for adults and children including the Duke Cancer Patient Support Program and the Duke Brain Tumor Program.

If you want a speaker to talk to your leadership and to your workforce and guarantee your event a success Sandy Costa is the man. Sandy’s mission is help others learn how to bring humanity, compassion and empathy back into their work culture for workplaces that invite the soul to shine.  “ The Art of Maintaining Relationships, Principled leadership, Character, Fear and Courage, Teamwork and Spirit and Humanity at Work” are among his most powerful topics.

"Sandy Costa strikes me as a cultural evolutionary.  His perspectives on leadership, maintaining relationships, and humanity at work are borne of a heightened self-awareness of business and personal experiences, deep reflection and relationship to the bigger picture. Listening to him truly facilitates a shift to a more sound way of thinking in our professional and personal life.  His talks and writings embrace the centrality of being human – leading people to discover and understand empirical reasons for doing onto others as we would have others do unto us.  Sharing wonderful stories which display his own evolution, Sandy is sharp and visible as he guides us towards serious reconceptualizing of what is meant by leadership and humanity – inviting us for our own benefit and for the benefit of others to speak it, act it out, and to make it living and palpable.  What we are often taught to do in terms of leadership, relationships, and humanity appears so simple, so totally universal yet it takes the talent of Sandy to validate the reality, show us the human reality, and cause us to link it together with purpose."   -Douglas S. Baker, CEO, Kryosphere, Inc.  

Customized presentations for your group or company are also arranged in collaboration with Sandy

Suggested Topics:

Perfect for Family Groups, Community Groups and Corporate Events

“Creating a Vital, Inclusive Corporate and Community Culture”
An inclusive culture is a vital culture, a trusting, productive, compassionate and empathetic culture where all are free to contribute and experience respect for their contribution. “How is this accomplished in this age?” leaders in every sector are asking for guidance. They know what the loss of these qualities is costing them. Sandy Costa has answers that offer lasting solutions.

Your audience will learn:

*How to deepen their understanding of others and relationship skills

*Appreciative inquiry that allows emotional safety  

*Active Listening that encourages Trust and Truth  to flourish

*How to daily align their worklife to their life purpose

* How to build individual self esteem and community self esteem

* How to apply the values of Christianity to life at work


“Solving “Isolation Syndrome” in  Computer Culture Today”
More and more employees, families and communities are creating technological cocoons for themselves that isolate them from each other and cost them in noticeable ways-

Loss of interactive skills, continuous partial attention, emotional withdrawal… are making satisfaction and cooperation more and more difficult.

Sandy Costa is an expert at building bridges, and relationships that flourish. He offers solutions for undoing the damage done in the past from the ‘cocoon isolation syndrome” for families, corporate teams and community groups.

Your audiences will come away with:

* Recognition of their own withdrawal patterns

* Techniques to stop themselves when they are withdrawing and to reconnect

*Words that heal when damage has happened in relationships

*Behaviors that  include others and maintain healthy relationships

*How to share productive information

*How to apply the values of Christianity in relationships

For Church groups, Community Crisis Healing Projects

“Understanding Proverbs 2:11 Today”
“Understanding Shall Keep Thee”  -  Not only will it keep you together, today in city  neighborhoods but everywhere,  it could  be the thing that gives your life meaning.

In the workplace we are too busy to take the time to understand, We want it bottom- lined.  Each life is unique and priceless. When we take the time to listen with open ears to each others stories and achieve understanding where there was none before, Everyone grows and benefits.

Sandy Costa will bring to life the ways we can use memory and story to help one another and our world today. In addition, he has led several crisis management committees .

Your audience will learn:

*Listening skills that stop judgemental thinking and behavior patterns

*How to recognize the need in someone to be understood

*How to reduce gossip, and rumors patterns in the workplace and community

*How to see God  and good in all

*How to recognize when YOU are the one who needs to understand a situation or person more deeply,

* How to manage your own emotions and capabilities to understand

* How to apply the values of Christianity to understand and honor others

“We Are ALL more than We Appear”
Am I a soul having a human experience?  Or Am I a human having a spiritual experience? We have all pondered this. Sandy opens this question to us with loving kindness and helps us to understand that each of us decides on a daily basis whether to lead a life of faith or a life of fear, each of us is on a journey of self-liberation and self realization  and that taking this journey with intention to finding God in ourselves we reveal God in one another.  

An exploration, a discussion and interactive keynote with Sandy Costa who Dr. Paul Hersey CEO of The Center for Leadership says is “Part Philosopher, part Storyteller, part artist, Sandy Costa uses his words as an artist's brush to paint us insights into ourselves, others, and the challanges of life...”

Other topics of value and depth include:

The Role of Emotions in Good Decision Making-

emotions do inform the intellect they should and they must.  Your audience learn which emotions help you see clearly and act decisively, and how to engage them in moments of decision making.  

Good news! People Are Running the World! Tap into the energies of people everywhere who have  hopeful and participatory  relationships to their community and the world.

More and more people  everywhere are ‘running’the world not ‘ruining’ the world. Hopeful ideas for projects and  Christian thinking that creates good.

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