About Sandra Blevins

Bio

Sandra's approach is comprehensive, creative, collaborative and customized to suit your particular goals, needs and priorities. Sandra is a highly trained Business Development executive with over 30 years of experience as a consultant in strategy, negotiation, sales, marketing and advisory including significant experience in luxury categories. She brings a successful track record developing targeted strategies and launching the broad tactical initiatives that achieve aggressive goals and attain optimal outcomes for her clients. Her unique value is in gaining an in-depth knowledge of her clients' specific priorities and preferences, and adopting a 'failure is not an option' mentality in working diligently to achieve customer expectations. She is devoted to ensuring excellent experiences from early stage planning through the negotiation and closing process and post-closing follow up. Sandra is also a creative problem solver and can help find solutions to the complex issues that may arise throughout each stage of real estate transactions.. Sandra is a licensed real estate agent in the state of Connecticut and is a member of the National Association of Realtors. CT RES.0809340

Professional Background

Sandra gained international prominence as the founder and CEO of the Institute for Social Design, a leading education, strategy and innovation consultancies based in New York City. As a business development executive, she has marketed offerings with local and international Fortune 100 enterprises, negotiated and closed complex transactions, and has travelled extensively to territories such as North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Europe and Australasia inclusive of Cairo Egypt, Tokyo Japan, Shanghai China, Budapest Hungary, London England, Sydney & Melbourne Australia, Sao Paola & Rio Brasil, Rome Italy, Langkawi (Malaysia), Capetown & Johannesburg South Africa, Geneva Switzerland and many more. Sandra is also strategic advisor to executives with Fortune 500 firms. Wherever the market or territory, Sandra is tirelessly devoted to unearthing the most relevant solutions for her clients' objectives. Sandra is also a social entrepreneur with a strong interest in positive social change. At 24, she founded mPower, a philanthropic initiative devoted addressing issues such as homelessness. Sandra’s hands-on community involvement has been effective in raising awareness and funding for such causes, and she has also helped re-architect a flawed homeless system from that of temporary shelters into a successful reintegration, training and housing development program. She has been recognized by John Kerry and was awarded the Governor’s Citation for Philanthropic Initiatives, by former Massachusetts Governor and presidential candidate Michael Dukakis for her efforts for the underprivileged. She has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club International, U.S. Olympic Committee, AWNY, Fashion Group, Luxury Marketing Council and Women Unlimited.

Personal Background

Sandra resides in CT full time and has owned multiple properties here in CT, as well as in New York City, upstate New York and Massacusetts. In her spare time, her passions are designing, decorating, landscaping, working out at spin and boot camp, cooking and kayaking. She has enjoyed hosting and mentoring international students from China who are studying in the U.S.

Sandra's Story

Sandra’s devotion has always been to serve others and to help clients achieve their vision, goals and objectives. Raised in the military, Sandra moved an average of 23 times by the age of 23. Never having had a sense of roots, she become acutely conscious of the value and role that ‘home’ has in our lives. It is Sandra’s passion to help her clients secure a sense of home and belonging through property ownership, and the stability that comes along with that.