Betsy Sanders former Vice President and General Manager, Nordstrom, Inc.

Betsy Sanders has lived her life committed to supporting leadership

evolution on every level: personal, organizational, and global. In service to

the specific needs and vision of her clients, she is qualified as both a life

and an executive coach, director, consultant, mentor, speaker, and writer.

She partners with clients around the world who are committed to leading

meaningful organizations based on leading meaningful lives.

Her message is encouraging – and challenging. On a personal

level, she works with those committed to their own transformation in

owning and developing their essential abilities and gifts, assisting them in

turning their dreams into realities. Her expertise with organizations is in

supporting them in making their values operational and their operations

driven by their values. She leads her seminars and workshops by

example, speaking from her own remarkable experience with warmth,

humor, intelligence, candor and integrity.

Ms. Sanders began her experience leading winning-edge

organizations when she joined Nordstrom as a sales apprentice. She

moved quickly through the ranks, becoming Nordstrom’s first female store

manager. Ms. Sanders and her team made retail history building the new

southern California business to $1 billion in annual sales over a twelve-

year period, quickly becoming Nordstrom’s largest and most profitable

region. While developing Nordstrom into a business partnership with their

customers, this team, under Betsy’s leadership is credited with having set

the industry and international standards for service.