Carol has over 25 years of global experience speaking to businesses on how to strategically position themselves for non-displaceability, build developmental leaders that grow people while executing strategy, and bringing strategically focused regenerative practices into daily work by transforming operations into fixed consciousness infrastructures. Work practices are redesigned to ensure they are “regenerative”, taking innovation to the next level of potential. Regeneration happens predictably by imbedding consciousness infrastruction, structuring the way work is ordered and organized, that evokes and demands accountability for behavior, effects on the business and relevance to strategic direction.

Carol Sanford is CEO of InterOctave Development Group, Inc., a global management consulting firm with clients such as DuPont, and Colgate Palmolive Europe, Agilent, Sharp Electronics, and Seventh Generation among others. She speaks regularly about the human consciousness factor and its effect on competitive effectiveness, strategic thinking, work design and financial effectiveness to corporate event audiences from Manufacturing, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, Microelectronics and Chemical as well as many other industries. She is extremely insightful when addressing businesses seeking to elevate their effectiveness while being socially responsible and mindful of global imperatives.

She has published over 100 works in 10 languages, including a column for “At Work”, a newsletter with Berrett Koehler Press, and several pieces in Stephen Covey’s newsletter, “Executive Excellence”.

The most important factor in innovation, growth and business success is something no one talks about directly. It is something everyone can feel, but not every one can name. The moment you hear Carol Sanford speak about it, you will know. It is the human consciousness factor.

Human consciousness is the ability to exercise the capacities that make us fully human. Are we bringing a way of thinking and acting that makes us creative, flexible as well as disciplined in our strategic thinking and execution? In our development of people? In our work change processes? Only with seeing HOW we are thinking and by managing ourselves can we continuously raise the bar on what is possible. Without consciousness we repeat patterns when new ones are demanded, go down side roads leading away from the future to which we aspire, and choose partial solutions and approaches because we cannot manage which "mind" we use when we set ourselves to thinking as executive teams. We satisfy ourselves with "thoughting," not thinking, bringing old thoughts and ideas into the present conversation and not even noticing. It is a fundamental executive task to know you can develop and manage consciousness, and how to awaken the human consciousness factor, the underlying principle for growing businesses, people and nations

An acclaimed speaker on TV and radio, at conferences and in universities, Carol Sansford is a leader of leaders whose consulting clients are successful corporations including Fortune 500 businesses like DuPont, Colgate and emerging ventures such as Seventh Generation.

Carol's extraordinary keynotes help executive audiences see a whole picture of human productivity and innovation and provide a clear path, not just to "the next level" but also to the next many levels of innovation and growth. Carol isn't gimmicky or complicated, but she does use up-to-date research in business, human intelligence and systems theory. She helps her audiences see and believe that despite the recent productivity stall and increasing global competition, there is a virtually endless supply of innovation and growth available to companies that increase their Human Consciousness Factor.

Because human consciousness is important to every aspect of business and human performance, Carol's keynotes explain the role that the Human Consciousness Factor plays in Business Growth, Strategic Leadership, Organization Design, Human Resource Practices and other business initiatives.

Public series for 4-6 companies, held in 3 regions in US as well as in UK; internal company series (including Clorox, DuPont, Weyerhaeuser, Pacific Telesis, Colgate-Palmolive, Crown Zellerbach, Goodrich, James River Paper, Hunt Wesson, Cincinnati Microwave, Yahoo, Agilent, Silicon Graphics, Sharp Electronics, and Seventh Generation among others.

Business strategic, leadership, and/or organizational development, resulting in significant improvement in competitive effectiveness, industry leadership and sustainable growth earnings margins and cash flow.

Ongoing on and off-site workshops and video conferencing for entrepreneurs, managers, educators, business leaders and others creating regenerative organizations and practices.

The “Management Expert” for the NW Region SBA radio and TV Broadcasts

Program and curriculum design and development of charter or private schools based on a developmental approach to education K-12. Worked with local schools and school boards on redesigning education principles to particularly address the development of uniqueness and distinctiveness of each child and teacher, while building thinking, judgment, and decision-making into the curriculum and school governance processes.

Worked with business and community leaders in South Africa and Kenya to prepare education programs for election and governance preparation (prior to and after the first national elections), family bonding (Kenya), and social processes for managing community development and sustainability of neighborhoods and families (South Africa and Kenya). Work done in conjunction with Colgate Palmolive while developing business teams and factories in South Eastern Africa based on their support for strengthening the social and self-governance capacity of the country, as well as business.

Worked with Kingsford Charcoal, as part of business development, in the creation of materials, training, and trainer capability for corporate community mentoring projects in 4 states to raise level of literacy, family financial management skills, family development, and individual competitive effectiveness in job market. Program won State Award in Kentucky for "effective community contribution" in 1995, raised levels of literacy from 36% to 90% in participating families and significantly lowered rate of family violence. Success also achieved in West Virginia, Alabama, and Missouri initiatives with Kingsford support programs.

Currently serves on Board of Directors of "Jessica's Love" Foundation, which is focused on enabling community based child development processes through funding for whole systems interventions using broad based education and community development. Using foundation grants, helped design education films and materials for non-profit social agencies working to reduce family-related violence, child abuse, and school drop out rate in San Francisco Bay Area communities. (Funded by Fireman's Fund Insurance) Produced training materials and processes for several government and non-profit agencies working with education, business, and community leaders regarding working with adults and children with disabilities.

Collaborator in creation and development of Creative Grandparenting, an inter-generational mentoring program in Wilmington, DE, with in-school, community-based, and alternative activity program mentoring. Design and lead introduction of Creative Mentoring® as National Program. Won the National Governor's Award in 1998 for Distinctive in Program Design and Effectiveness.

Awarded Athena Award in Washington, in1999 for excellence in business, community and mentoring.

Conducts parenting workshops on developmental parenting processes and practices from “conception to independence”, teaching age-appropriate, developmentally appropriate, and dominance appropriate strategies. These workshops also work to enable parents to be able to develop the full potential of each child and family member, taking into account community and global perspectives.

Conducts family workshops and events as an extension of other development events, in communities with business clients, to encourage better understanding and appreciation of the other members of a family and to improve problem-solving skills as a family.

Conducts relationship workshops to improve the capability of committed couples to create a higher purpose for the relationship, to be involved in the development and growth of one another, and to discover and contribute from the uniqueness of each partner. Television series on Healthy Family Dynamics for CVTV Portland/Vancouver.

Personally played a core role in the development of four at-risk youth into young adults by in-depth involvement in personal family processes, providing a home for extended periods to support "cooling off" periods for the natural family, and personal and social development for child or teen. Worked as a family unit, including with birth children, to create and upgrade processes. Worked with "acquired family members" through college and beyond.

Conducted personal development sessions in 22 communities in United States and Europe for families, while simultaneously working with corporate clients.

Conducts ongoing personal development series in Washington, attended by persons interested in ongoing or continued personal self-development with a developmental philosophy.

University of California at Berkeley
BA Industrial Economics and Business, 1966- Emphasis in business systems development.BA Political Science, 1967- Emphasis in public law.

San Jose State University
MA Community and Urban Studies, 1974- Emphasis in business, community and social/urban systems development.

Director, Strategic Leadership Institute, Washington State University, Vancouver 1999-2005. Certification program; Antioch University Seattle, City University Int'l Business School

Assistant Faculty at San Jose State University 1974-1977 teaching "Social and Psychological Patterns of Business and Community Systems" for urban studies, cybernetic system, and business graduate students.

Adjunct Faculty at University of San Francisco 1977-1982 teaching interpersonal communication skills, mentoring students, personal growth courses for the school of Rehabilitation and Health-Care Administration.

Adjunct Faculty at Foothill Community College 1976-1978 teaching business communications, supervision, and training and development theory and practice.

Over 40 papers and articles published in journals and books on developmental perspective on systems evolution. Some relate specifically to education processes in families and schools, and others to business systems. Writings are translated into 10 languages.

Has served as a key speaker or workshop leader for over 100 conferences and international meetings in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.

Frequent contributor to Stephen Covey's "Executive Excellence", and Barrett Koehler's "At Work" newsletters.

Produced and delivered presentations in eleven video/DVDs on Business and Strategic Leadership