Sandy Mitsch

Sandy Mitsch is president of Sandy Mitsch LLC, a coaching and organization development firm based in Florida, serving clients across the globe. She has more than thirty years of direct experience as a leader in executive coaching, organization development, and human resources with experience in various industries and diverse corporate settings. She has been a coach and a member of senior management teams for companies driving executive and leadership development, organizational change, and team optimization programs.

As a master certified coach through the International Coach Federation (ICF), Mitsch is formally trained and certified through the Coactive Training Institute (CTI). Her fiercely compassionate coaching approach gets to the root cause, creating higher levels of resiliency and success. She helps her clients brave new challenges, and discover and overcome the obstacles that can prevent them from performing at their full potential.

Mitsch has studied, lived, and taught the research of Dr. Brené Brown since 2012. She is a senior Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator and one of three mentors for the facilitator community. She collaborated with Brené and her team for two years piloting that work for hundreds of people before its official launch in 2018. In 2020, she was selected by Brené as one of seven people in the world to be part of her keynote speaking team, bringing this work to organizations, in both live and virtual formats.

Mitsch's experience runs deep in this research and is also a senior faculty member, certified facilitator and instructor, and case consultant for Brené’s Daring Way™ program. Mitsch leads workshops and provides one-on-one coaching in the Daring Greatly™, Rising Strong™, and Gifts of Imperfection™ programs. She is passionate about this work and makes it the primary focus of her coaching and facilitation. She helps her clients live, lead, and achieve courageously. Serving as the founding leader for The Daring Way™ Midwest Region, she supported 13 states and more than 150 facilitators in 2017-2018. Mitsch has been a valued presenter for Brené’s community-based learning forum, Courage Camp, since 2016.

Mitsch is also certified in the Leadership Circle Profile™ and the Team Diagnostic™ suite of tools through Team Coaching International (TCI), as well as, several other assessment instruments. She was a founding officer on the Board of Directors of the International Coach Federation-Chicago and served as President. Mitsch is a regular speaker and workshop facilitator on key leadership topics in the area of human development.