Overview
Sandra Pinnavaia is the global head of strategy and innovation for on-demand talent and leads the product innovation team at Business Talent Group (BTG), a Heidrick & Struggles on-demand talent company.
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Experience
Sandra works with Heidrick & Struggles’ senior clients, helping them unlock business potential, seize opportunities, and solve problems using on-demand talent. Through a lens of growth and innovation, she focuses on expanding on-demand talent offerings for the mutual benefit of independent talent and clients alike.
Previously, Sandra led the highly successful strategic partnership between BTG and Heidrick & Struggles for two years, from its inception through Heidrick & Struggles’ acquisition of BTG in 2021.
Sandra has more than 25 years of experience as a business leader, management consultant, and trusted advisor. She began her consulting career at McKinsey & Company, helping build the life sciences practice and paving the way for non-traditional (non-MBA) hires. She subsequently built and ran a successful freelance consulting practice, pioneering work as an independent talent herself before the “gig” economy was so named.
Education
University of Cambridge, Trinity College, M.Phil, Biochemistry, Marshall Scholar
Michigan State University, BS, Biochemistry and Political Philosophy
Philanthropy and Service
Sandra is a trustee of the Bank Street College of Education, is on the Rome Chamber Music Festival board, and is co-chair of the Marshall Scholarship Selection Committee for the New York region.