Sandy is a lifelong student of Eastern, Western, and indigenous spiritual traditions and is dedicated to supporting transformational development as the pathway to an equitable, sustainable, and abundant future. He is a Psycho-Spiritual Facilitator certified as a Breathwork Practitioner by the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance and completed Grof® Legacy Training for Grof^® (holotropic) Breathwork and Psychedelic Assisted Therapy with the Grof® Psychedelic and Breathwork Training Academy. Along with a community of co-facilitators, he designs and facilitates retreats and experiential workshops around the globe for personal and collective healing, spiritual evolution, and to promote culture change focused on environmental sustainability, social justice, and equitable economies.

Sandy is trained in Integrative Breathwork, Grof^® (holotropic) Breathwork, Therapeutic Breathwork, and Coherent Breathing. He is a certified meditation teacher and has studied, practiced, and taught numerous meditation and transformational techniques over 45 years, including Vipassana, Transcendental Meditation, TM-Sidhi, and TM advanced techniques, Zen, and Kriya Yoga. He studied Archetypal Patterns at the Assisi Institute and has done extensive study of the Enneagram .

Following a two-decade career as a real estate and construction executive and an epiphany regarding the destructive impacts of that industry, Sandy became a central figure in the U.S.’s green building movement. In 2004, he launched Consilience LLC, a consultancy with a mission to foster environmentally, socially and economically sustainable communities. Through Consilience, he has helped give birth to sustainability plans for municipalities and institutions, regional public policy initiatives and sustainable economic development plans across the U.S.

Sandy also served as Chief Learning Officer for Future Tide Partners, a field building collaborative focused on equipping individuals and institutions to shift consciousness, culture and capital toward an inclusive and flourishing future. In this role, he developed and delivered transformational content to diverse communities of change agents, business, leaders, and wealth holders.

Sandy has been a collaborator on, and educator for, The Choosing Earth Project, whose mission is to catalyze personal and societal awakening to the critical challenges to humanity’s future and to foster a relational consciousness grounded in our connection with a Living Universe.

Sandy previously served as Sr. Advisor to RSF Social Finance where he focused on RSF’s field building activity in emergent systems. He founded the RSF/BALLE joint Local Economy Foundation Circle, a community of practice to support leaders of philanthropies working to transition their endowments to mission-aligned investments. He also launched RSF’s Conscious Finance initiative, which focused on the power of inner transformation as the means to alter the way that money works in the world.

Sandy served for a decade as Chair of BALLE (now Common Future). He is also Past Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council, Founding Chair of Green Business Certification Inc., and Founding Chair of the Philadelphia based Green Building United.