Meet Volunteer Adviser Lisa Sandt

Serving as volunteer adviser for Wood Badge Course S9-91-14 is Lisa Sandt. Lisa also serves as committee chair for Troop 15 and associate crew adviser for Crew 15 — both chartered by the Auburn Supply Chain Institute Inc. — as well as the council’s training chair and member of the council’s Executive Board.

Lisa has been an adult Scouting volunteer for 13 years, during which time she has served in unit, district and council positions. At the unit level, in addition to her current roles, she has been a Webelos den leader and assistant scoutmaster. In the past, she has served on the Saugahatchee District Committee as both its training chair and membership chair. She has also served the council as its vice president for program. As a result of those experiences, she has received several training- and service-related awards — most notable among those are the District Award of Merit, Silver Beaver Award, Order of the Arrow Vigil Honor membership, and council’s Gilwell Award.

A Beaver Patrol member during Chattahoochee Council’s Wood Badge Course SR-321 in 2000, Lisa has been a frequent Wood Badge staffer since then. Her Wood Badge staff experience includes serving as troop guide (SR-464, 2002), assistant scoutmaster for program (SR-585, 2003), senior patrol leader (SR-942, 2009), assistant scoutmaster for troop guides (SR-1078, 2010), and scoutmaster/course director (S9-91-12, 2012). She has also staffed five of the council’s National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) courses — including course director in 2011 — and numerous Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills, BALOO, and other programs to train Cub Scout and Boy Scout leaders.

Professionally, Lisa serves as director of planning and economic development for the Lee-Russell Council of Governments. With her husband Todd, a scoutmaster and crew adviser who is also an active Scouter in council and Wood Badge programs, she has one daughter who currently in Girl Scouts, and an adult step-daughter.