Suzi Pomerantz, MT, MCC is an award-winning master executive coach, speaker, facilitator, and author with over 15 years of coaching and teaching experience working with leaders and teams in over 135 organizations internationally, including seven companies on the Fortune 100 list. 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.
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. She also develops leaders in teambuilding, sales, planning and conducting effective meetings, and facilitating change. 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 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 has presented 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 Linkage and Annual International Coach Federation Conference, and 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 20 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 National Association of Professional Women as well as several coaching organizations including 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 will select an annual recipient.
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
