Dawn Sandahl

About Dawn Sandahl

Senior Consultant at IBM with over three years of experience contributing to enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. Focused on consulting, business transformation, and strategic communications, collaborating with teams to drive continuous improvement and impactful change. Skills include generative AI, consulting, and business transformation, supported by certifications in Enterprise Design Thinking and IBM Agile methodologies. At IBM, supports executive leadership with strategic analysis and pilot programs to scale change management initiatives across the organization. Facilitates communication and enablement efforts for client-facing partners, leveraging expertise in consulting and business transformation to achieve impactful outcomes for both internal and external stakeholders.

Experience

1. Senior Consultant Transform 2 Grow Sales & Client Strategy Analyst

   IBM

   Jun 2022 — Present

   Key responsibilities include:• Navigating and adapting to often ambiguous environments to implement and deliver continuous improvements. • Providing strategic analysis and support to executive leadership for IBM’s internal transformation initiative: Transform2Grow (T2G)• Supporting pilot programs, discovering best practices, and applying lessons learned to change management initiatives scaling across the enterprise.• Coordinating, drafting, and driving monthly strategic communications and enablement for managing/lead client partners including Elite Client Council communications, Client Performance Update Newsletter, and Quarterly Top Client Activation call recap emails. • Coordinate, curate, and host monthly Elite Client Council forum consisting of IBM Consulting Ultra Elite, Elite, and Target Elite MCP/LCPs.• Supporting ISC Change Management activities by guiding the production of the IBM Consulting Leadership and Coaches Learning Plan.• Collaborating to create and revise the Client Centricity Space w3 website, IBM Consulting Client Handbook, Account Planning Guidance, Global GTM Guidance, Multinational Accounts, and Client Program Graduation Communications.

Education

• Virginia Commonwealth University

  MBA, Marketing

  2004 — 2007

• Virginia Commonwealth University - School of Business

  International Business Certificate Program

  2006 — 2006

• Virginia Tech

  BS, Psychology, Sociology, Communications

  1995 — 1999

Skills

• Creative Direction
• Budget
• Trade Shows
• Strategic Planning
• Copywriting
• Brand Development
• Sales
• Marketing Communications
• Online Advertising
• Email Marketing
• Art Direction
• Newsletters
• Sales Presentations
• Social Networking
• Social Media Marketing
• Market Planning
• Business Development
• Digital Marketing
• Corporate Branding
• Event Planning
• Team Building
• Management
• Crm
• Online Marketing
• Event Management
• Marketing
• Web Analytics
• Integrated Marketing
• Strategy
• Budgets
• B2b
• Brand Management
• Direct Marketing
• Direct Mail
• Marketing Strategy
• Leadership
• Market Research
• Advertising
• Public Relations
• Social Media