Sarah Dizon Sowinski
About Sarah Dizon Sowinski
Sarah Dizon Sowinski is a Senior Design Strategist at CIBC and the Founder of The Groggy Owl, a jewellery brand. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph and has completed various courses from prestigious institutions like Harvard and Yale.
Current Position at CIBC
Sarah Dizon Sowinski currently works as a Senior Design Strategist in Enterprise Innovation at CIBC in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She has held this role since 2022. Her responsibility involves spearheading design strategies to support the enterprise innovation efforts.
Previous Roles at CIBC
Prior to her role as a Senior Design Strategist, Sarah served as an Analyst in Enterprise Innovation at CIBC. She worked in this capacity for 10 months in 2021-2022, and for an additional 3 months in 2021. These positions helped her gain extensive experience in analyzing and supporting innovative projects within the enterprise.
Founder of The Groggy Owl
Sarah Dizon Sowinski is the founder of The Groggy Owl, a jewelry brand she established in 2017 in Oakville, Canada. She designs and makes jewelry, sourcing gemstones directly from artisanal small-scale miners and transforming scrap copper through an electrochemical deposition process in her home studio. Her artwork incorporates Kulitan, the pre-colonial script of the Kapampangan people, and has been featured in Living-Hyphen.
Work Experience at Chubb
Before joining CIBC, Sarah worked at Chubb as a Customer Service Representative from 2016 to 2018 and previously as a Personal Lines Assistant from 2015 to 2016 in the Toronto, Canada Area. These roles involved addressing customer inquiries and assisting in personal insurance lines.
Educational Background
Sarah holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Development Studies with a specialization in Latin American Studies and a minor in French Studies from the University of Guelph, completed in 2015. She also earned a Diploma in Business Administration with a specialization in Human Resources from Sheridan College, completed in 2020. Additionally, she has completed courses in Systematic Approaches to Policy Design from Harvard University, UX Design for Beginners from CareerFoundry, Financial Markets and Behavioural Economics from Yale University, and Business Model Innovation from HEC Paris, all in 2021.
Early Career and Academic Roles
Sarah's early career includes roles at the University of Guelph as a Process Clerk in the Office of Research Services in 2014, a Project Assistant in the Office of the Vice-President (Research) from 2013 to 2014, and an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Office of the Vice-President (Research) from 2013 to 2014. Through these roles, she gained experience in administrative and research support.