Susan Marshall is an author, speaker and independent business owner whose career spans more than 25 years and includes a wide range of experiences. From an early start as an advertising assistant, she progressed through a series of marketing and general amangement roles before founding Executive Advisor, LLC in 1997. Along the way, she led a successful turnaround, raised a family and now speaks to a variety of audiences from community groups to senior executives. Her corporate and consulting experience includes work with General Motors, Nestle, Subaru of America, Harley-Davidson and Apple Computer. She has been welcomed as a guest-lecturer at several University of Wisconsin campuses, and at Marquette University, Alverno College, the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
For two years, Susan served as a facilitator for the New York City Leadership Academy, one of only two selected nationally to assist the Academy in teaching public school principals the skills of transformational leadership. Her own education blended work, family, and schooling in a 13-year quest to a Bachelor’s Degree in Management and another 2- 1/2 years to complete work on an MBA. Her book, How to Grow a Backbone: 10 Strategies for Gaining Power and Influence at Work (NTC/Contemporary Books, 2000) has been translated into German, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese.