REAL in Touch

Leadership, Philosophy & History

"Helping Turn Intention Into Action"

Business Coaching - Life Changing

Sandy R. Lawrence

FOUNDING PARTNER of REALinTouch, LLC

Sandy R. Lawrence brings over two decades of experience to help clients and audiences achieve professional growth, business development, and values alignment.

With expertise in business/career analysis and planning, authentic branding, strategic marketing, product development and personal growth, Sandy is recognized as a versatile motivator, mentor, coach, and consultant – a REAL person who cares about taking others higher.

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE

Sandy Lawrence has designed successful coaching programs and has authored several publications on leadership, performance and sales management, self-growth, and how to improve service and loyalty through interpersonal and business communications.

PROFESSIONAL COACHING

Organizations and individuals have supported emotional intelligence and workplace productivity - a 50% to 400% boost in sales revenue and goal attainment by applying the innovative content and approaches introduced by Sandy.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Individuals and groups thrive when business and management practices are shared along with soft skills/life skills wisdom.

ENGAGING SPEAKER, facilitator, and educator, Sandy has equipped and motivated a variety of audiences, and is well-versed in introducing and translating complex concepts into practical steps for workplace and personal success.

TO HIRE Sandy for your next event, group instruction, or for individual coaching, please call 404-841-7800 or visit our 'Products' tab.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES - SERVICES

Sandy Lawrence and REALinTouch also provide the following:
- Workplace Engagement Consulting, Business Planning, Personal Coaching
- Vision-Mission/ Strategic Planning Facilitation for Organizations
- Career & Human Resource Behavioral/ Personality Assessments
- Audio Books, Tips Booklets
- Expert Articles, Articles Customized for Your Publication
- Staff Retreats, Mastermind Groups, Women's Retreats
- Christian Coaching
- Public Speakers and Emcees, Professional Voice

Mike Lawrence

Mike Lawrence, co-owner of REALinTouch, is an accomplished IT entrepreneur with a Computer Science degree from Georgia Institute of Technology and over 20 years of real hands-on experience in applying technology.

In addition to growing two successful businesses of his own, Mike has helped major organizations such Federated and North Point Community Church with technology and project management solutions.

Mike is our Chief Technology Officer and one of Sandy's advisers, working hard behind the scenes to identify and apply technologies to enhance our services. Sandy adds, "Mike is a Godsend; he's my help-mate, a brilliant leader, and a fun and handsome husband!"

Sandy Lawrence's Affiliations - Accomplishments

- Christian Coaches Network
- National Speakers Assn Georgia
- eWomenNetwork - Contributing Author, North Fulton Times
- Adviser, Entrepreneurs Footsteps Group
- Self-Growth.com Author
- Contributing Author, R.E. Magazine
- Contributing Author, Georgia Connections Magazine
- 2007 Member of the Year, WCR Atlanta Chapter
- 2007 Education Chair WCR
- 2007 Communications and Public Relations Committee, GAR
- 2007 Course and Instructor Development Committee, GAR
- Approved Off-site Instructor, GIRE
- Licensed Real Estate Broker, Georgia
- Host Team Workplace Prayer Breakfast www.residentialprayerbreakfast.org/
- Founder "First Things First" Workplace Bible Study
- Seminar Instructional Designer- Coaching Connection (TM)
- Author/Publisher of Audio Books and Training Guides

REALinTouch Philosophy

REAL is an acronym for our vision - lives of joy and integrity:

Rich Relationships - Energy and Enthusiasm - Applied Knowledge - Life of Abundance

"My preferred definition of 'integrity' is a state or character of being 'whole' or 'undivided.' This is the foundation of workplace and personal success, but it's a challenge to identify and maintain," explains Sandy. "We all need coaches and advisers, to inspire and support personal transformation and to help take us higher."

Most REALinTouch business planning and life coaching clients experience a 50 to 200% increase in productivity and goal attainment, some as much as 400% applying the whole-life coaching principles.

Real in Touch History

Sandy (Rohre) Lawrence entered the world of 'the people business' knocking on doors to sell newspaper subscriptions in the 1980s. Various jobs in food service and hospitality helped pay her way through college as she obtained a degree in Communications and Psychology. By the 1990s, she was a sales professional serving as a peer coach and sales/marketing adviser in Northern Virginia (Metro D.C.) for a major real estate firm.

She learned the value of tenacity, solid sales principles, and God's provision for those who ask, achieving Multi-Million Dollar Sales Club status and Gold Excellence awards for sales and outstanding customer service in the height of a recession.

However, like many driven professionals, Sandy struggled with identifying an authentic personal success blueprint and maintaining life balance. Thousands of miles from home - figuratively and literally- she recognized her challenges were not unique, and the vision for REALinTouch Coaching was born.

After moving to Atlanta in 1998 to be closer to family, Sandy began working on the coaching vision, helping small businesses achieve their potential through marketing and sales initiatives. Then, she had the opportunity to provide career services, mentoring, and business coaching for hundreds of individuals a year.

In time she was asked to create a comprehensive business coaching program from the ground up, and advised as many as 80 individuals one-on-one a week. Clients were encouraged, equipped and held accountable to focused goals, sales and marketing systems, time management, life balance, and professional communication.

This group of sales professionals experienced tremendous success - a 50% to 400% boost in closed transactions in as little as four months. "With God anything is possible!" explains Sandy.

REALinTouch Coaching was formally launched in 2005, providing a unique hybrid of business and life coaching as well as professional development training to support whole-life integrity. With the help of Godly advisers and strategic alliances, Sandy continues to offer consultation, coaching, and workplace solutions to groups and individuals.

REALinTouch provides a distinctive Judeo-Christian worldview, helping clients align efforts with scriptural principles. "Wisdom is the goal, which is applied knowledge, and that takes connecting the head to the heart, soul and spirit if you want lasting change and success."

Confesses Sandy,"I'm a walking example of God's grace. He transforms my chaos to clarity, panic to peace and my fear to faith . . . He's not done with me yet, but I'm paying attention and sharing what I learn."

Sandy's community service roles have included coordinating volunteers and promoting events, facilitating retreats and small groups, teaching debt reduction/ spending plan principles, and serving on leadership and outreach teams. Sandy and her husband Mike are members of North Point Community Church, named the 3rd most influential church in the U.S. in 2005. They attend the Buckhead Campus in Atlanta. In 2003 Sandy graduated BASIC Training, an emotional and spiritual health curriculum for leaders and lay counselors.

Sandy grew up in Round Rock, Texas a suburb of Austin, and graduated with honors from Texas State University (Southwest Texas State) with a B.A. in Communications and minor in Psychology.

Sandy admits she's a weekend gardener who loves nurturing perennials and hot peppers as much as she enjoys growing joy, passion and purpose in people. She and her husband Mike reside in Atlanta with their 'furry kids" - two dogs and a cat.