Bio + Story
Suzanne is passionate about connecting individuals to their humanity and their divinity – by helping them access and remember the ancient wisdom, passion, and power that lies within.
Known for her unique ability to guide others to clarity, Suzanne has devoted herself to helping individuals manage challenging transitions by honoring natural cycles, being a steward of the Earth and Feminine Principles, and learning to embrace Life’s mysteries while still initiating empowered action.
Throughout her career of over 20 years, Suzanne has specialized in supporting individuals, emerging leaders, and visionary companies through times of transition and sensitive change. Her broad and extensive experience in strategic business, law, psychology, eastern medicine and mysticism brings a unique perspective to her work, as she helps leaders clarify and explore the next level of their organizational, professional, personal and spiritual development.
Early in her career, Suzanne became a leader in the field of family business, and as such, has been published in magazines and journals including Family Business magazine, Families in Business magazine and Family Business Review.
She also specialized in the field of family wealth psychology, helping financially-resourced families navigate toxic generational patterning around money in order to promote family harmony and reciprocal benefits for the local communities and economies.
Suzanne is a well-respected public speaker, who has led workshops and conferences for organizations, such as Wells Fargo, Google, Silicon Valley Health Institute, UCLA Anderson School of Management, UC Berkeley, and Loyola University Chicago.
Suzanne is a modern-day medicine woman and alchemist, whose medicine spans many modalities with certifications in Ayurvedic medicine (CAS), Yoga (RYT), ICF Coaching (PCC), and Reiki. She also earned a BA in English Literature and Psychology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as well as a JD and MBA from Loyola University Chicago.
Suzanne was born in the Chicagoland area and now resides with her husband and pup in Sebastopol, a tiny town in Sonoma County – the unceded land of the Southern Pomo people. She loves immersing herself in music, dance, forests and the ocean…and hanging out with horses.
Meet Suzanne
Being a truly empowered leader is about inherent self-worth, realizing our connection to our divinity and our humanity, and embracing the power to choose in every moment.
My Story
For over 20 years, I’ve coached and mentored numerous people as they’ve crossed thresholds into new ways of being that have brought them closer to the Essence of who they truly are.
I was born and raised in Chicagoland and have been deeply influenced by my mixed heritage: my mother, born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica with West African, Celtic, and Spanish ancestry, and my father, born in Chicago with German, French, and Norwegian ancestry.
There is great medicine hailing from my ancestors in these lineages, the most noteworthy being my Jamaican great-grandfather, an herbalist, whose concoctions were coveted throughout Kingston. This explains my study of herbalism and healing modalities of all sorts, including Ayurvedic medicine, yoga, Reiki, and other forms of energy healing.
Having threads of connection to such diverse lands has often made me feel that “I belong everywhere and nowhere;” yet, it also provided me with the gift of finding that sense of home and belonging within myself.
In addition to the home within, I have been honored to call California home for over fifteen years with my husband and pup.
I feel deeply nourished by the lands and waters of Northern California and am blessed to call Sebastopol home—a tiny town in Sonoma County on the sacred land of the Southern Pomo people.
Living here has allowed me to deepen my relationship to Presence. It has allowed me to enhance my communion with Nature, rekindle my relationship to dance and music, and reveal a profound sacred connection to animals that has transformed my relationship to Life itself.
It is also here in Sonoma County where I have gained clarity on the purpose behind my work – to connect and commune with Nature, her beauty, and the unseen world while helping others to do so, too. It is in Nature that we find ourselves—we find our true Essence and power.
In a current world where ‘power over’ rather than ‘power with’ is seeping more and more into the collective leadership paradigm, coming back to our center, coming back to our bodies, and coming back to presence and aliveness is more important than ever.
I truly believe this is the way to live more harmoniously with each other, with all creatures, with the Earth and with all of the Mysteries of Life.
