Sandy Abel

Assistant Vice President, Operational Excellence Space Coast Credit Union

Sandy Abel, MBA, LSSBB, is the Assistant Vice President of Operational Excellence at Space Coast Credit Union. With a knack for making complex concepts approachable, she champions a culture of continuous improvement without requiring a PhD in technical jargon. After all, who needs to sound overly technical when you can make Lean Six Sigma sound like a trendy coffee order? With her pragmatic leadership, Sandy mixes just the right amount of levity into her public speaking, engaging her audience and reminding them that operational excellence doesn’t have to be intimidating. She’s also known for transforming an informal program into a structured framework that cleverly uses operational excellence and business process management principles aligned with maturity modeling—because if you’re going to do it, you might as well do it right!