Sabra E. Brock, Ph.D., President

Sabra Brock is President of The Training Advantage, which specializes in designing and delivering training to enhance team building, foster innovation in organizations, and facilitate change management. Sabra works with multinational corporations in packaged goods, telecommunications, financial services, advertising, executive search, and organizations in the nonprofit sector. She draws on her extensive U.S. and international corporate training and marketing experience, including 12 years as a vice president at Citibank. Recent clients are Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson, Meridian France, Verizon, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

She holds a Ph.D. in Workplace Learning and Business Education from New York University. Past academic experience includes: Adjunct Professor, Stern Business School at New York University, Adjunct Professor of Management at Pace University, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute (graduate level courses in advertising, business strategy, marketing and organizational behavior), Adjunct Professor in Banking Strategy at the French Management Institute, Lecturer in Marketing of Nonprofit Organizations at New York University and Post Graduate Lecturer in Marketing at Hong Kong University. She lived in Hong Kong several years while marketing Citicorp Travelers Checks across Asia. She has trained in the U.S., Canada, as well as Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia. She also rolled out advertising and promotion training to over 1000 managers in 60 countries.

Sabra has recently published "Simulation in the College Classroom: Enhancing the Survey Research Methods Learning Process" in Information Technology, Learning, and Performance Journal (2005), Men Head East, Women Turn Right; How to Meet in the Middle When Facing Change (2004), and a chapter in The Best of the Best: The AMA Trainers’ Activity Book (2004). Presentations include "Exploring the Effect of Gender on Transformational Learning in Graduate School" Research Presentation. Centre for Gender Studies Methodology Seminars, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England (2006); "Exploring the Effect of Gender on Transformational Learning in Business and Professional Education Curricula: Implications for the United States and Australia" Research Presentation: Diversity Conference, Melbourne, Australia (2005); "Data without Borders: Internet-based surveys" International Society for Business Education (ISBE) 77th Annual International Conference. Boston, MA (2005); "Exploring the Effect of Gender on Transformational Learning in Business and Professional Education Curricula" Research presentation: American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada (2005); "Male and Female Learning Styles: How to incorporate male and female learning styles into your classes" Eastern Business Education Association (EBEA) Annual Conference. Metro Park, NJ (2005); "How Male and Female Leaders Meet the Changing Demands of Business" Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2004); "Reflections on the Collaboration and Information Management Process Using a Shared Online Bibliography and Database Manager" Computing in Education E-Learn World Conference. Washington, DC (2004); "Today’s Business Educator as Learner and Teacher: Collaboration via New Technology Tools" International Society for Business Education (ISBE) 76th Annual International Conference. Krakow, Poland (2004). She has also presented to conferences in New York, Chicago, Boston and Brussels.

She began her career in marketing research with General Foods and Young & Rubicam. She holds an M.S. degree in Advertising from Northwestern University and a B.A. in English and Psychology from West Virginia University. The Hong Kong government certified her as a Cantonese speaker. She has taken French courses at the Alliance Française in New York and Ecole de Langue Française pour Etrangers and Spanish courses at New York University.

Sabra founded and was first president of the Marketing Research Society of Hong Kong. She is a committee member of the National Arts Club, vice president of Alpha Delta Pi (business education honorary), and the American Society for Training and Development. She lives in New York City.