Sheryl Golub

"Health equity can only be achieved when we prioritize the voices and experiences of all stakeholders, including those most affected by health disparities. As public health advocates, it is our duty to listen to and amplify these voices, and work together to create lasting solutions that promote health and well-being for all."

Sheryl Golub is a partner at Lexicon Strategies. Sheryl Golub is a builder of transformative learning experiences using her expertise in public health education, industrial/organizational psychology, and global learning and curriculum development. She has been instrumental in crafting the most innovative and thought-provoking stakeholder solutions for health education and programming with measurable impacts.

Sheryl began her career as an assessment development and training consultant for Verizon. She quickly grew her expertise to include building coaching programs for new managers, designing and developing leadership workshops for pharmaceutical product co-promote teams, creating change management toolkits, and designing mentorship frameworks for public health.

In 2016, Sheryl was asked to direct a performance advisory team being built out at Marriott International. This involved providing thought leadership and learning strategy oversight to craft performance improvement solutions aligned with company business strategies. Sheryl regularly collaborated with global leaders within the organization to evaluate learning needs across numerous hospitality disciplines; and she led the design and implementation of programs to improve quality, increase customer loyalty, and drive excellence in food and beverage delivery.

Before bringing her skills to Marriott International, in 2000 Sheryl founded boutique consulting firm AE Performance Solutions. Under her leadership, the company grew into a trusted vendor to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, prominent NGOs, Federal governmental agencies leading to its successful sale in 2015.

Sheryl’s professional milestones include serving as a learning consultant and training partner for Celera Genomics, the organization that first sequenced the human genome. At Celera, Sheryl designed and facilitated executive sales training programs for microbiologists to sell access to Celera’s first of its kind genome database.

Sheryl has developed logistics and health commodities training programs for in-country staff; trained humanitarian aid workers on emergency supplies procurement during global conflict; developed database user and sales tools for cutting edge biotech organizations and led training development for a multi-year drug application tracking system for the FDA. Most recently, Sheryl is working with public health leaders Dr. Bill Foege and Dr. Mark Rosenberg to create 9 Lessons: Becoming Better Ancestors ™, a seminal learning program to teach public health lessons learned from smallpox eradication.

Sheryl lives in the Washington, DC area and holds a Master of Arts in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and a Master of Public Health from Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health. Sheryl has served as a mentor at Future Link, which provides support, skills and training for low-income, first-generation-to-college young adults and has held social action board positions at local organizations.

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