About Suz

Suzi Pomerantz, MT, MCC is an award-winning executive coach, speaker, facilitator, and author with 17 years of coaching and teaching experience working with leaders and teams in over 138 organizations internationally across Government agencies and private sector clients, including seven companies on the Fortune 100 list. Suzi specializes in coaching at the intersection of leadership and business development, with a particular emphasis on integrating brand and social media into your strategy. A coaching veteran in the legal industry, Suzi has coached leaders in seven corporate law departments and a dozen law firms. Other industry experience includes: consulting, financial services, manufacturing, hospitality, entrepreneurial enterprises, federal and state government, educational institutions, membership-based service entities, and executive MBA programs.

Suzi’s strength lies in helping leaders and organizations find clarity within chaos. Her no-nonsense approach is professional, strategic, conversational, analytical and results-oriented.  She was one of the first executive coaches to receive the Master Coach credential from the International Coach Federation over 12 years ago and is considered a thought leader in the coaching industry.

Suzi helps executives, teams and high performing, high-potential future leaders to clarify their vision and exceed prior performance. She provides executive coaching, team/group coaching, and emerging leader coaching in organizations to assist executives and their teams with setting strategic direction, managing talent, and developing leadership bench strength. She also develops leaders in teambuilding, sales, effective meetings, interpersonal savvy, and facilitating change.  Suzi’s coaching work with scientists, researchers, and administrative operational leaders focuses on developing emotional intelligence, leadership acumen and skills to help navigate in a high-pressure, high-growth environment.  PhD clients cite results of her coaching that include increased confidence, improved strategic visibility, an ability to successfully navigate the political landscape, leadership influence, and an improved ability to balance the demands and stresses of work with life. She helps organizations develop and retain leadership capacity by coaching leaders in executive presence, presentation skills, personal power, communication, and vision work.

A recognized leader passionate about integrity, legacy, impact, and leadership excellence in organizations and stewardship of the profession of coaching, Suzi serves in a number of international Board of Director positions (see bullet list below) and volunteer leadership roles, donating time and resources to organizations that are leading the future of the coaching profession. Suzi was the Chairman of the first ICCO Symposium in Washington, DC on The Global Implications of Organizational Coaching. Suzi has been guest faculty and a featured speaker to industry leaders in more than a dozen coaching schools and communities worldwide including: Association of Coach Training Organizations, Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, Newfield Network, Gestalt Center for Organization and Systems Development International Gestalt Coaching Program, Fearless Living Institute, Adler School of Professional Studies/ Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto Leadership Coaching Certificate Program, and the Purdue University Organizational Leadership Development Lab. Suzi presented, coached, and led team meetings at the prestigious Linkage Best of Organizational Development Summit in 2008. In 2009 she co-founded and launched both the Library of Professional Coaching LLC and the Leading Coaches’ Center.

Suzi co-chaired as well as participated for seven years at the International Executive Coaching Summit, an invitation-only annual gathering of worldwide senior executive development experts. Suzi has presented at the Annual International Coach Federation Conference as well as the Capitol Coaches’ Conference,  taught executive coaches at the Executive Coach Academy and the College of Executive Coaching and was named Resource Faculty Member at Advantara Global Coach Training Institute. She has also delivered guest lectures at George Washington University, Loyola University, and the University of Virginia and has coached executives in the MBA for Executives Program at Darden.

Suzi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia and a Master’s degree from the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. Her honors include Kappa Delta Pi International Education Honor Society, Dean’s List, and Lawn Resident (Thomas Jefferson’s Academic Village).

Suzi is credited with more than 25 publications about coaching, ethics, and business development, including her book Seal the Deal.

Suzi received the 2007 Woman of Achievement Award and is a member of the National Association of Professional Women as well as several coaching organizations including ICCO (International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations), ICF (International Coach Federation) and IAC (International Association of Coaches). In 2008 the ICCO Board of Directors established the Suzi Pomerantz Award for Stewardship and selects an annual recipient. In 2009, Suzi was named the #1 Most Influential Executive Coach on Twitter, and in 2010 she was invited as a Founding Coach in Keith Ferrazzi’s Relationship Masters Academy.

• International Master Certified Coach
• Founding Vice President and Executive Board Member International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO)
• Advisory Board Member of ICCO
• Editorial Board Member of the International Journal for Coaching in Organizations (IJCO)
• Executive Board Member and past co-Chairman of the International Executive Coaching Summit
• Author, Seal the Deal: The Essential Mindsets for Growing Your Professional Services Business (HRD Press, 2006)
• CEO, Innovative Leadership International LLC
• #1 Most Influential Executive Coach on Twitter
  

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