Christine Whitney Sanchez, is a partner at Innovation Partners International. She is a social entrepreneur, consultant, coach, teacher and pioneer in blending collaborative methods, reflective practices and conscious leadership.  As a pioneer in large-scale change, she has worked across four continents to build the capacity for distributed leadership and strategic collaboration.

Christine has collaborated with hundreds of leaders across four continents to build the capacity for distributed leadership and strategic collaboration where people work together for a higher purpose.  As the creator of Methods for Strategic Collaboration™, Christine has coordinated large-scale change events for corporate, government and social sector groups and has trained hundreds of facilitators around the world in strength-based approaches for self-organizing in their organizations and communities.

 

Her background in depth psychology and experience in cross-sector work has positioned Christine to inspire diverse groups of collaborators to deep levels of co-learning and high performance on behalf of a meaningful cause.  She has worked with executive leadership teams, has coordinated system-wide capacity building and strategic change, has facilitated intense work with intact groups, and has guided multiparty stakeholders in resolving thorny issues and generating new opportunities to increase the triple bottom line - people, prosperity and the planet. 

 

Christine holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Hawaii and a Master of Counseling degree from Arizona State University.  She has brought strategic collaboration to clients such as Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Northrop Grumman, La Liga de La Leche de Latino America, Facilitators Network Singapore, Appreciative Inquiry Network UK, KaosPilots Business School in Denmark, American Red Cross, Motorola, Make-A-Wish Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, United Way of Northern Arizona, the cities of Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, AZ and Aspen, CO, Arizona Diamondbacks Sales, Girl Scouts of the USA, and the United States Postal Service.

 

A highly sought-after conference presenter, Christine has facilitated some of the largest intergenerational conversations in the world, with corporations, cities and social profit organizations.  At the 2005 and 2008 Girl Scout National Conventions, she invited over thirteen thousand girls and adults to co-create the future of the Girl Scout Movement.