Biography
Sandra L. Shullman, PhD, managing partner, Columbus Office, Executive Development Group, LLC, is internationally known in leadership and executive assessment and development and manages large and long-term organizational clients for the firm. Shullman has taught leadership at the HEC School of Business in its EMBA and MBA programs in Paris, Doha, Beijing and Shanghai, and has served as faculty for the Duke University Fuqua School of Business Global Learning Network. Her work has focused on leadership and executive development, executive coaching, strategic planning and multicultural and diversity initiatives, working with major global organizations and leaders.
Shullman is co-author of "Performance Appraisal on the Line," a groundbreaking book on performance evaluation, and has written numerous articles and book chapters on significant organizational performance issues, including foundational work on harassment and hostile work environments. Her more recent publications have focused on psychologists as learning leaders, leadership in ambiguous and uncertain circumstances, and the emerging challenges facing global leaders.
Shullman holds a bachelor’s degree from Dickinson College, a master’s degree from Harvard University and a PhD in counseling psychology from Ohio State University. Earlier in her career, she served as founding faculty in the Cleveland State University Diversity Management Program and lectured and facilitated leadership development programs for over 15 years at the John Glenn School of Public Management at Ohio State University. Before that, she served for 17 years as president of a behavioral health care organization, Organizational Horizons Inc. Prior to that, she served as faculty and then acting director of the counseling psychology PhD program at Kent State University and director of managerial effectiveness programs for the Center for Creative Leadership, where she worked on research projects and leadership development programs. She was awarded the 2012 national Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award for Excellence in Education and Inspirational Leadership, which is conferred by the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Trust.
Shullman has served on APA’s Board of Directors and previously as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Foundation. She chaired APA’s Workgroup on Executive Coaching and is a past chair of the APA Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology. She also serves as a faculty member for a number of leadership development academies, preparing technical and scientific professionals for broader leadership roles. In 2012, she received the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Professional Practice for her organizational and leadership development work.
Shullman co-chaired the APA Council of Representatives Work Group on the original APA Multicultural Guidelines, chaired the APA Task Force on the World Congress against Racism Report, chaired the Board of Educational Affairs/Committee on International Affairs in Psychology Task Force on APA’s Role in International Quality Assurance, chaired the APA Board of Professional Affairs, and served as a member of the Policy and Planning Board, and as a member of the Committee on Women.
Shullman chaired APA’s Good Governance Project, a strategic initiative designed to help the association align its governance structure with its strategic plan. In 2016, she received the Leona Tyler Award for Lifetime of Achievement in Counseling Psychology and the Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Practice of Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation, its highest honor.
She is a past president of the Ohio Psychological Association.