DARE TO
BUILD GREATNESS
Consulting for Purpose-Driven Companies.
From time to time, successful and growing companies need an extra pair of executive hands to take the company to the next level. With me you get an empathic leader and problem solver with a unique ability to dive inside the DNA of your organization to quickly help determine the levers (culture, strategy, brand, sales, people, process, product) that may need to be shifted to create break-through solutions, sustained growth, and happiness in work. I look forward to building with you.
Happy Clients Include:
Interim C-Level Executive
“After running a successful consulting firm for many years, our growth had reached a plateau. I hired Susanne because of her proven track record of helping take companies to the “next level,” and she absolutely delivered on this promise. Under her guidance, we revamped our strategy and brand, operationalized our sales function, codified our client engagement process, landed a TedX talk with more than a million views, and doubled revenues. Susanne became fundamental to our team success, and hiring her is one of the smartest decisions I made for my business. For anyone who is interested in living and leading in their full power, I highly recommend engaging with Susanne.”
Interim C-Suite Services
Susanne brings 25 years of building building and consulting to her work as an interim executive. Adept at quickly integrating into teams and cultures, Susanne goes in-house as an experienced leader, manager and operator to gap-fill on initiatives and lead through inflection points and growth.
Susanne has filled a wide variety of interim positions including CEO, COO, Chief Product Officer, VP of Production, VP of Digital Marketing, Chief Strategist, or Chief of Staff.
The benefits of hiring an interim executive are many, including:
An experienced executive when you need it, instead of full-time
Laser-focused delivery of outcomes
A viable alternative to entering recruitment mode immediately after a departure
An Independent assessment of the inner-workings of your organization
Business Consulting
“Susanne had a huge impact on our startup, initially coming in to help us with some high-level strategic planning, and subsequently wearing many different hats in strategy, operations and product management. In the midst of all this, Susanne also used her valuable coaching skills to help us manage a number of personality and communications issues. I found it particularly impressive how Susanne could span the full spectrum from strategizing about fundraising, down to keeping us all working efficiently by managing meetings and product roadmaps. ”
Strategic Planning & Growth
Business Analytics & Diagnostics
Brand Development, Experience Marketing & Sales Operations
Operations, Change Management & Process Improvement
Creating Inclusive Workplaces
Building & Empowering
Effective Teams
Workshops
"Styles" Training for Peak Team Performance
You are a biological wonder, naturally hard-wired for survival. And you are really good at it. In fact, your survival programming runs even when your life isn't being threatened. Which isn't always useful.
You were naturally wired with one of four survival strategies. In the MarketForce Global world, this is called your Style.
Gaining awareness of your Style allows you to better manage your own biology, giving you greater versatility in daily interactions with others. Susanne trained in the Styles Methodology with MarketForce Founder Travis Carson, and CEO Tony Cooper.
In this half-day workshop, your team will:
Experience the powerful ways our biology dictates our biography in the Styles framework
Understand how other Styles operate and how you can work more effectively with them
Learn how to manage yourself under pressure, and tools to self-correct when you get thrown off-track.
Get wired for prosperity
Gender Bias & Sexual Harassment Training
We live in complicated times. People from all different backgrounds are getting real opportunities in the workplace, and yet we are still deep in the middle of the “Me Too,” “Time’s Up” and “Equality Now” movements. The Glass Ceiling is still a thing, and female founders are still only receiving 2.2% of all VC funding.
While four in ten working women say they’ve experience gender discrimination at work (Pew Research), an EEOC study found that at least 25% of women experience sexual harassment in the workplace.
So what is to be done about these disturbing numbers, and how can men be part of the solution?
In this 2-3 hour workshop, we will explore:
The spectrum that goes from Gender Bias to Sexual Assault
The legal definitions versus what’s happening in reality
The different types of sexual harassment
How Unconscious Bias fits in
How to interrupt bad behavior and be an ally
Making Pitch Perfect Presentations
We’ve all been there. It’s Monday and on Friday you have to make the presentation of a lifetime, and that’s not your strong suit. Where do you start? And how to you create and present in a way that your audience will “fall in love” with your message and vision?
Whether it’s to your boss, your Board, or the VCs you need to buy-in to help your company get to the next level, your presentation skills can make or break your success.
In this highly interactive half-day workshop, executives and participants will learn how to:
Create 3-act presentations that take listeners on a compelling journey
Develop targeted, descriptive and consistent messaging that you can use in presentations, pitches, cocktail parties, networking events and more
Synthesize your company message into compelling, digestible bites
Get comfortable presenting your ideas with comfort and confidence
Using non-traditional techniques to make sure you and your messages “stick”
Get to YES!
Business Priority Bootcamp
With market conditions changing at warp speed, how do companies know when to adjust, refine or pivot? And how can they balance short-term goals with long-term visions? Prioritization of purpose, resources and capital are challenges every organization faces. Managing priorities is a key factor in successful streamlined operations.
In this highly interactive day-long bootcamp, executives and participants will better understand how to:
Get real about what is and isn’t a priority for your business
Develop standards for making decisions at every level of your organization
Practice creative collaboration
Establish boundaries to prevent priority see-sawing
Bring short-term tactics and long-term objectives in balance