Fortune 500 executive coach who works with highly-successful leaders. Ideal clients are top performers who understand that leadership is a journey and desire to raise their leadership to new levels.Susan Cucuzza is an executive coach and founder of Live Forward LLC. She coaches executives on leadership effectiveness, style and behaviors. She applies appreciative inquiry, the intentional change process, emotional intelligence and authentic leadership to her coaching engagements. In addition to her own coaching business, Susan is a Master Executive Coach through Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management Executive Education programs.

In her career, Susan led HR programs nationally and internationally in Fortune 500 companies for over 15 years, with special focus on leadership and talent development. She served on the HR executive team at Textron Inc., a $15 billion multi-industry corporation. There she was responsible for succession planning, leadership and organizational development, recruiting, rewards and employee relations for key corporate functions, including international HR responsibilities. She coached key executives in new roles through new leader assimilation, 360-degree feedback, Myers-Briggs, and career development. Susan also designed and led leadership rotational programs, which achieved global recognition with a chairman’s award for innovation at Textron. She also led the design of an enterprise-wide career development program for Six Sigma Black Belts.

Previous to Textron, Susan led and facilitated leadership development programs and solutions at ArvinMeritor, a $10 billion Tier One automotive supplier. This included leaders from first-line plant supervisors to business operations leaders to the c-suite both nationally and internationally. She also held global leadership roles in HR continuous improvement, performance and rewards, and she was the first corporate employee to become certified in HR continuous improvement / lean. Susan’s consulting experience has included managing human capital projects at Deloitte & Touche and KPMG Peat Marwick. Previous to that she was an HR Officer at National City Corporation.

Rate: $250-499 per hour