Alina Sanchez (she/her)

Board Chair

Alina Sanchez is Founder and Principal at Accelerating Purpose, an impact consulting firm whose mission is to collaborate with purpose-driven business leaders to activate their most pressing and compelling social and environmental initiatives. Alina has been a trusted advisor to execs and teams at companies including AT&T, Gap, Disney, and Sony. She helped implement the marketing functions at Jigsaw that was later acquired by Salesforce for $175M. And more recently she designed the Founders Business Accelerator for the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) to bring the best business resources in the city to underserved businesses – a project sponsored by the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development.

Since 2011 Alina has been a coach for the SVPLA Fast Pitch. This is work that has connected her with 120+ nonprofit leaders. She’s been a trainer for both coaches and presenters and because of her reputation for helping leaders tell their most compelling stories, Alina has had the privilege to be a coach for The Annenberg Foundation, Alchemy Tech Program, CNN Heroes, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Living Progress Challenge, and the American Honda Foundation.

Alina is on the Advisory Board of the Zapara School of Business at La Sierra University in Riverside, California.

Her superpower is bringing out the best in those around her. Alina’s purpose is to focus her experience, connections and energy on making this world a better place – more resilient and more just.