David Sandler, Principal
David Sandler is an award-winning facilitator and coach who has spent the last 20 years developing people, teams, and businesses around the globe. For ten of those years, he served as a leadership advisor, sales enablement leader and executive coach at Google, where he developed and led many of Google’s highest-rated learning and development programs for Sales, Marketing, Cloud, and Engineering. He was a founding team member of both the Google Sales School and Google’s Sales Excellence Coaching Program. Those programs collectively earned six Brandon Hall Awards for Excellence in Human Capital Management including:
- [Gold Award, 2022] Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development
- [Gold Award, 2021] Best New Hire Onboarding Program
- [Gold Award, 2021] Best Sales Onboarding Program
- [Gold Award, 2021] Best Advance in Custom Content
- [Bronze Award, 2021] Best Unique or Innovative Sales Training Program
- [Bronze Award, 2021] Best Unique or Innovative Learning and Development Program
Prior to Google, David worked for multiple digital agencies and innovation firms, including Digitas and Noise, where he operated as a strategic advisor for iconic brands such as American Express, Ancestry.com, Mercedes, JP Morgan, Intel, Chase, Comcast, Indeed, VitaminWater, GlaxoSmithKline, and more.
In 2012, David received his MBA from New York University – Stern School of Business with three separate specializations in marketing, entrepreneurship, and entertainment, media and technology. He studied marketing as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and further advanced his professional education at Duke and The Wharton School via Google Business Academy and Google Marketing Academy, respectively.
David currently resides in Long Island, New York where he lives with his wife and three daughters.