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About Me

Suzi Pomerantz is an award-winning master executive coach, facilitator, and author with over 20 years of experience coaching leaders and teams in over 165 organizations internationally, including seven companies on the Fortune 100 list. Ms. Pomerantz specializes in executive coaching, leadership development, and innovative influence. 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. She was one of the first executive coaches to receive the Master credential from the International Coach Federation 15 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 coaching, and emerging leader coaching in organizations to assist executives and their teams with setting strategic direction, managing talent, and developing leadership bench strength, focusing on developing emotional intelligence, leadership acumen and skills to help navigate in a high-pressure, high-growth environment. She helps organizations develop and retain leadership capacity by coaching leaders in executive presence, presentation skills, personal power, communication, and influence. Clients cite results 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.

A recognized leader passionate about excellence, integrity, legacy, impact, and leadership in organizations and stewardship of the profession of coaching, Suzi serves in a number of international Board of Director positions 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, 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. Suzi presented, coached, and led team meetings at the prestigious Linkage Best of Organizational Development Summit in 2008.

Suzi presented and 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 Linkage and the Annual International Coach Federation Conference, and taught executive coaches at the Executive Coach Academy and the College of Executive Coaching. 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. In 2009 Suzi co-founded and launched both the Library of Professional Coaching and the Leading Coaches' Center. She was a panelist at the inaugural World Business and Executive Coaching Summit (WBECS) in 2011 and a featured speaker at the WBECS event in 2012.

Suzi holds two degrees from the University of Virginia. Her honors include Kappa Delta Pi International Education Honor Society, Dean's List, and Lawn Resident. Suzi is credited with over 25 publications about coaching, ethics, and business development, as well as 7 books, among them her bestselling book Seal the Deal and the #1 international bestseller Ready, Aim, Captivate, co-authored with Deepak Chopra and other luminaries. She has been quoted in the Washington Post and Washington Business Journal.

Suzi received the 2007 Woman of Achievement Award. In 2008 the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations established the Suzi Pomerantz Award for Stewardship. In 2009 Suzi was named the #1 Most Influential Executive Coach on Twitter, and in 2010 she was selected as a Founding Coach in Keith Ferrazzi's renowned Relationship Masters Academy. In 2012 she was invited to join the Harvard Business Review's Advisory Council to help shape the content they develop on management and leadership. Suzi annually attends the exclusive Conversation Among Masters invitation-only gathering for master coaches.