Susan is a strategic partner and leadership coach with expertise in leadership development, communication, employee engagement, culture transformation, career growth and transition.  She has held a variety of senior level roles such as the Vice President of West Coast Sales for The Energy Project, a consulting organization addressing corporate burnout and as Vice President, Northern California with BlessingWhite, an employee engagement organization focused on building leadership competencies. She also held executive level roles at Spherion and The Institute of Executive Development.

Over the last many years, Susan has strategically partnered with organizations such as: Kaiser, Epic Games, Vive Organic, LinkedIn, Facebook, Uber, Stanford Children’s Hospital, Box, eBay, PayPal, 3M, Genentech/Roche, Advent Software, VMWare, Gilead, Juniper Networks and many others.  

Being a lifelong learner and seeker of transformational learning experiences, Susan is certified as a master practitioner in NLP (neurolinguistic programming) through the Association of Integrative Psychology and a certified coach/mentor through HeartMath Institute. She also hold certifications in the Meyers Briggs Type Indicator, Emotional Freedom Technique, Clinical and Medical Hypnotherapy and Liberal Arts. Susan currently serves on the advisory board for Police2Peace, a non-profit training organization at the forefront of teaching emotional intelligence to Police Chiefs and their departments.   

Susan lives at Spirit Oaks Farms in the Sierra Foothills where she founded an Herbal Wellness Retreat Center in 2016 and offers personal and group wellness retreats in addition to coaching and corporate offsites.