Susan Russo

I focus on leadership development by creating and delivering customized training programs for teams and organizations. I also deliver engaging keynote speeches for conferences and leadership retreats. I'm passionate about supporting people in their growth journey and I appreciate organizations that recognize their high-performing, talented people by providing them with opportunities to continue learning and growing. I always feel honored when asked to support others in their development.

There is no typical day for me. There are days where I'm out training and delivering presentations, other days where I'm spending my time creating the content that I will deliver in the future, and then also days where I'm having discovery calls, talking to people and organizations to determine if I would be a good fit for their needs. I've always been a natural connector - I meet people and just remember random things about them. It started out as this weird party trick, but it ended up being something that really enabled me to connect well with people and build those relationships because people appreciated that I remembered them and got to know them. That was a little different than your traditional corporate HR person. When I pivoted into academia and training and development, I gained a lot of success through those personal connections and also storytelling. A lot of my training and content includes visuals and analogies with stories that people find very relatable, which help make learning stick and creates a very positive outcome.