Sandra Piccoli
Senior Consultant, Total Rewards
Overview
Sandra Piccoli is a seasoned business and human resources leader with deep expertise in organizational design, strategy, and leadership development. She holds an interdisciplinary Master’s degree in Environmental Studies from York University, where her studies focused on organizational environments, including organization design, change, and learning. Sandra is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), further deepening her academic and practical insights into business strategy, leadership and organizational effectiveness.
Throughout her career, Sandra has led human resources, organization effectiveness, total rewards, communications, and employment equity functions at leading organizations. Currently, she leads her own consulting practice, where she is focused on aligning business and people strategies to drive optimal performance. Sandra has coached and developed over 1,000 leaders and managers, both internally and externally, leveraging evidence-based methods and deep strategic insight to enable leadership effectiveness and cultural transformation.
Specializations
- Compensation
- Job Evaluation
- Pay Equity
- Benefits Review
- HRIS Design and Implementation
- Organization effectiveness
- HR audits, policies, and processes
Certifications
- Co-Active Coaching Certificate, Coaches Training Institute (CTI)
- Leadership Assessment Tools, Center for Creative Leadership
- Hogan Assessment Certification, Hogan
- People Capability Maturity Model, School of Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Awards
- 2014 Canadian Society for Training and Development, President’s Gold Award, IAMGOLD Supervisory Leadership Development Program (SLDP)
Education
- University of Waterloo - Honours Bachelor of Arts, Sociology (H.BA)
- York University - Master of Environmental Studies (MES)
- University of Calgary - Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA)– In Progress