Work With Susan
Susan is frequently sought out for her advice on automotive, energy and emerging technologies. She has made her mark in Silicon Valley after 25 years in traditional automotive manufacturing. Susan is comfortable in both Detroit and Silicon Valley, on the production floor, and in board room. Susan has advised technology leaders on how to take a nascent technology and bring it to market with cost and quality at speed and with a strong business model . Areas she covers are new product introduction, technology scale, change management, corporate culture.
Consulting Topics
Susan provides consulting services on a variety of topics. Susan has advised in the automotive, electric vehicle, clean energy, battery, energy storage, material science, hydrogen and 3-D printing space. Please reach out to schedule a consultation with Susan to book her services or to request assistance in a specific area not listed here.
Learn How To Build World Class Teams
Gain tools and strategies to build teams from a person who has had practical experience and can give examples of how to take a team that is either not cohesive and collaborative or is going through significant change and build them into a high performing team with the outcome of increasing revenue or reducing costs or reducing turnover.
Learn from Susan’s experience to:
- Introduce new products with cross functional, collaborative teams to obtain the best outcome of speed, cost and delivery while producing with quality and safety
- Build healthy, productive teams from dysfunctional and non-productive groups of individuals who are driving their individual agenda versus the collective agenda
- Deal with the hard, tough issues that keep teams from being productive and hold organizations back from being their best
- Move at the speed of business: drive teams to deliver what the business needs not what they think they are capable of.
How to Scale Your Company
Many technology companies are on a timeline to go public – are you really prepared ? Susan can take you through strategies and tools for the before, the during, but most critically, the after.
Susan can prepare you for the post scale actions that will allow a company coming off a “high” keep the momentum going to assure your company continues to thrive in revenue and growth.
Susan will evaluate your business practices, strategies and tactics to:
- Determine what is needed to scale quickly and successfully – review strategies and use the benefit of Susan’s experience to stress test our plan
- Review your team dynamics to assure that your team has clear role clarity as well as clear, aligned objectives and focus to assure that the tactical execution meets the intent of the strategy
- Review your board decks to assure that they meet the expectation of a board of a start up and bring the true issues to the table in a way the board can understand and act
- Work with the CEO/CFO to stress test strategies to assure success, ask the tough questions and meet with investors and the board to understand the linkage between the external stakeholders and the internal strategies and tactics.
