Gloria Sandvik

As a co-founder of AiPhilanthropy, Gloria Sandvik is committed to collaborative leadership and community partnership. With AiP she has been engaged in the design and facilitation of two Appreciative Inquiry initiatives with the San Diego Women’s Foundation and has worked with other non-profits such as the San Diego affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

The balance of Gloria’s work is in the private and public sector as a facilitator, mediator and consultant in leadership development and organizational effectiveness.  Specializing in transcultural structures, strategic initiatives, and partnerships in global corporations, she has conducted Global Leadership Institutes in over 15 countries.  Since 1997 she has been consulting in China for Motorola Chinese Accelerated Management Program working with global leaders in change management. She assists companies in doing business in China and the Pacific Rim countries and provides partnering and project mediation services for joint ventures, mergers, and project partnerships.

She also conducts private/public partnerships in the design and construction of architectural and transportation projects and has worked extensively with the Sovereign Indian Nations in Arizona and New Mexico.

With a B.A. in Political Science and a Master’s Degree from the School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of Oregon, her first career was in urban planning and public policy development.

Gloria is a 2003 LEAD graduate and her community involvement includes being on the Board of Directors for the Del Mar Community Connections and being a member of the San Diego Women’s Foundation, San Diego Women in Business, and the Dean’s Roundtable at UCSD’s Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.