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About Life Shift, LLC
Dr. Sonia Maria Alvarez-Robinson
Life Shift, LLC was launched in 2018 by Dr. Sonia Alvarez-Robinson to help individuals, organizations, and communities build resilience and realize change. She has been doing this work for more than 30 years.
Professionally, she has led an organizational effectiveness consulting team in a top research university since 2014 and served as the Principal Empowerment Officer for their Resilience Employee Resource Group where she led programs to build personal and organizational resilience. In 2020, she created and launched a course on building personal and organizational resilience for graduate and undergraduate students with her friend and colleague Joi Alexander.
Prior to her role in this university, Dr. Alvarez-Robinson was a director of People and Change in a Big Four global management consulting firm where she helped companies around the world to successfully implement new technologies, improve operations, and pursue new strategies. Earlier in her career Sonia led strategy for a state public health agency, was director of distance communication and learning for another state health agency, served as an HR business partner in a multi-national manufacturing company, led diversity and inclusion for state agency, and was an equal employment opportunity counselor for a federal agency.
Sonia earned her PhD in Human and Organizational Systems with a focus on culture and leadership. She holds master’s degrees in Human Development and Organizational Systems and a bachelor of arts in human resource management. She earned certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and was previously a certified mediator with the Minnesota Supreme Court.
As a survivor of domestic violence, homelessness, widowhood, spinal injury, and job loss, Sonia helps people navigate personal and professional adversity, uncertainty, challenges and change through her private coaching practice. She also serves as chairwoman of the DeKalb County Board of Health, one of Georgia’s largest counties.
Hear Part of Dr. Alvarez-Robinson's Personal Journey in this Heartfelt Speech
Growing Through What We Are Going Through
Listen to Her Reflections on the Power of Faith
God Makes No Mistakes
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An intimate disussion with Beth Peterson Randall about personal resilience.