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Bio: Alexander "Sandy" Davis

Sandy's career has spanned education, the arts, and business in roughly equal measure. Between 1980 and 1995, he held senior positions in several high technology companies, including running both national and global business units. In 1995 set out on his own and became a co-founder and principal of ChangeWise, Inc. (www.ChangeWise.biz), a small management consulting firm that specializes in leadership development. For the past 10 years, Sandy has worked primarily with senior executives. He coaches them on how to become more effective and more fulfilled in their leadership roles, in large part by helping them increase their personal resilience. Sandy has developed a methodology based on a set of simple daily practices that enables clients to dramatically enhance their capacity to thrive, no matter what their circumstances.

Recently, Sandy invented the concept of "zillience," a coherent and buoyant life energy that he sees as the precursor to, and foundation of, resilience. He is currently writing a book on how to generate zillience and how to sustain it so that, when under duress, you can draw on it instantly and come up with resilient, highly adaptive responses to whatever challenges you encounter.

Sandy has also developed a number of effective group programs based on the instructional manual he authored entitled The Recipe for Resilience: Three Simple Practices for Staying Unfrazzled (www.ResilienceWorks.biz). These offerings reliably help participants increase their personal resilience.

Past and Present Clients Include:
3i Investments, AOL, Bingham McCutchen, Catalyst Health & Technology Partners, Computer Education Management Association, Corning, E.S. Schwartz & Company, Genome Therapeutics Corporation, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Meeting Street School, Microsoft, Natural Microsystems, Occupational Therapy Associates, PEP Direct, PRA International, Stratus Computer, Sun Microsystems, Systems Engineering, Temple Israel of Boston, VenturCom, Wheelock College, Zanzibar Productions

Education:
Sandy received a B.A. from Harvard University cum laude in General Studies. His field of concentration was Biology, with a minor in Clinical Psychology. He completed graduate work in Clinical Psychology at Clark University. Sandy also trained at the Coaches Training Institute in California and holds a PCC (Professional Certified Coach) certificate from the International Coach Federation.

Personal Information
Sandy lives on a lake outside of Boston where he rows three seasons a year in his racing shell. He is also a "practicing musician" who plays every day. For the past 35 years, he has regularly provided live instrumental music for local New England contra dances. He has a 23-year-old daughter and a 21 year-old son.

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sandy@globalresiliency.net