Karen Dowdall-Sandford

I am a strategic and performance-driven Talent Leader with 18+ years of outstanding results in business, learning, and organizational development, able to quickly galvanize individuals and businesses to reach their goals. I have extensive experience setting strategic direction, developing learning organization brand and marketing strategies, with a track record of managing high performing teams responsible for defining and executing talent solutions that have helped over a million employees and leaders reach their performance goals.

I am a visionary change agent with diverse business experience that includes leading a $3MM start-up company, founding a corporate university resulting in 110,000 employees and agents upskilling through completing a total of 1,200 courses, and serving on the leadership team of UW Continuum College, a business to consumer-facing non-profit, accelerating the careers of over 40,000 learners a year.

Leadership requires a diverse set of skills grounded in emotional intelligence and the ability to lead teams to great results through shared values and goals. As organizations face new challenges, engaging and developing employees, leaders, and managers is essential to success. As a leader in learning, training, and organizational development, it's my job to set the tone and develop the strategies for how to solve business problems through creating a culture of continuous learning that results in measurable outcomes.

• Talent Management
• Learning & Development
• Digital Learning
• Organizational Development
• Leadership Development
• Succession Planning
• Online Learning
• Learning Experience Design
• Learning Science
• Performance Management
• Coaching
• Programs at Scale
  
• Assessment & Evaluation
• Learning Analytics