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Suzy Burke

Principal & Practice Leader

“Action creates understanding.”
Dale Mann, PhD

OVERVIEW

An experienced business executive with over 35 years of experience in leadership development, strategy development and execution, and successful organizational change efforts, Suzy has an exceptional track record of helping business leaders achieve exponential growth in a variety of complex businesses. With management and operational expertise in the United States, Canada, Europe and South America, Suzy knows how to lead executives and managers alike to see, and seize, opportunities for meaningful growth and implement the organizational changes often necessary for success.

APPROACH

A social psychologist by training, Suzy grounds her work in a research-based understanding of what it takes to transform leaders and organizations and ensure that desired culture changes stick.  Suzy has held executive positions in a diverse array of businesses, from a Fortune 20 technology company to a highly successful beverage start-up as well as law firms and investment banks. She has also worked with business leaders as both an internal and external consultant to:

Assess and develop leaders

Strengthen empowerment and teamwork

Understand and assess corporate cultures

A sought-after Executive Coach, Suzy’s clients include business leaders, entrepreneurs and educators, among others. Her deep experience as an executive herself combined with her training as an organizational and social psychologist give her a unique skill set that enables her to quickly help her coaching clients discern how to best enhance their effectiveness as leaders. She measures her success by her clients’ ability to achieve their career goals in the timeframes they establish.

BACKGROUND & CREDENTIALS

Suzy holds a Ph.D. in Social and Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, Master of Arts degrees in Social and Organizational Psychology and Educational Administration from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Hartwick College. Suzy also received specialized training in leadership development at the Center for Creative Leadership, Pennsylvania State University, and Xerox University.

 

Suzy is also trained as a quality expert. She studied service quality management in Tokyo with the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) as well as with famed quality expert W. Edwards Deming and at the Disney Institute. She successfully applied this knowledge as the Chief Quality Officer for an $8B development and engineering business, and she was a member of the leadership teams that led Xerox to win two Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards.

REAL Insights

What Suzy is Reading

what got you here
supercommunicators
radical candor
never split the difference
made to stick
hidden potential