“When you become a conscious leader aware of your strengths and help your associates do so, your organization can transform into a place of exceptional productivity, deliver unrivaled value, innovation and well-being for all!”
– Vicki Sandler, former President/CEO of APS Energy Services and a founding board member of Conscious Capitalism Arizona
Vicki Sandler was the senior energy attorney for over 15 years for the largest regulated utility in Arizona. Vicki’s life transformed when she learned to live more from “heart than head” and to listen to her “inner leader.” She left the successful practice of law to pursue her passion in marketing and trading. How she got there laid the path for how she helped others find their “best-fit.”
Vicki became the President/CEO of APS Energy Service’s start-up and entry as the first competitive retail electricity and green energy company in the California market. As an energy services company, APSES provided commodity risk management and procurement services, energy efficiency, district energy, green and sustainability solutions in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Texas. Vicki attributes the company’s growth (to $220 million in revenues per year for a decade, $80 million in assets and over 100 employees in four states) to the practice of aligning each person’s natural strengths and values with their work. What Vicki learned from her own journey was successfully institutionalized across the company.
The team at APSES was able to have fun and compete with companies many times its size by awakening the “leader within” – their intuition – and aligning their roles with their natural strengths. They were able to do more and better with less stress. They became “best-fits.” The tools APSES used to increase awareness, identify alignment, and take action to change, resulted in people and a place of exceptional productivity, delivery of unrivaled value, innovation, and well-being.
Vicki will share her experience so that you and your associates can become more conscious individuals and leaders in your workplace.
A light continental breakfast will be provided.
Conscious Business Summary Audit Item #: 11, 15, 19
Vicki's Bio:
Vicki Sandler became “Chief Energy Officer” of her own life when she left the successful practice of law to become CEO of a start-up green energy company, APS Energy Services (APSES). APSES grew over ten years to $220 million in revenues, $80 million in assets and over 100 employees. APSES was eventually sold. Vicki previously held management positions of increasing responsibility in APSES’ sister company, an electric utility, APS. APS was also a subsidiary of Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, an $11B company.
Prior to her role as an executive, she represented APS before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Arizona Corporation Commission as the senior energy attorney. She handled Federal and State energy and regulatory matters, where she argued a $23M case before the former Justice Antonin Scalia and APS employee equity disputes. Vicki also worked in private practice and clerked for an Arizona Supreme Court Justice.
Vicki has a BS in Economics graduating Phi Beta Kappa, from University of Arizona where she authored recognized papers with economics Nobel laureate, Dr. Vernon Smith. She has a Juris Doctorate, graduating with distinction from Arizona State University, is a founding board member of Conscious Capitalism Arizona, and is the Executive Director of an Energy Association. She is a professional speaker, an award-winning author, and a 40-year volunteer for the YMCA as public policy chair and former Branch Board Chair. She is the proud mother of two ASU master degree graduates, and wife of 38 years to a former major felony prosecutor. Most of all, she is a grandmother to two grandsons.