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Areas of Expertise:
  • Executive Coaching
  • Communication
  • Diversity
  • Executive Presence & Presentation Skills
  • Organizational Coaching
  • Sales Leadership
  • Team Leadership & Team Challenges
Selected Industry Expertise:
  • Consulting
  • Entrepreneurial Enterprises
  • Financial Services
  • Legal
  • Manufacturing
Certifications:
  • ICF Master Certified Coach
  • Coaching Certificate from CSA
  • DiSC
  • Experience with multiple 360 assessments
Education:
  • Advanced Corporate Strategies - Sage International
  • LEC's Leadership Curriculum
  • NSA Speaker's University
  • Lessons in Leadership - James Madison University
  • Master's in Teaching - Curry School of Education: University of Virginia
  • BA - University of Virginia
Positions Held:
  • Executive Coach - Break Through Consulting
  • CEO & Executive Coach - Innovative Leadership International LLC
  • VP, Board of Directors - International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO)
  • Board of Directors - International Journal of Coaching in Organizations (IJCO)

SUZI POMERANTZ - EXECUTIVE COACH

Suzi Pomerantz is an international Master Certified Coach, facilitator, and author. Ms. Pomerantz specializes in executive coaching, leadership development, sales coaching and diversity training. She works extensively with Fortune 500 executives, attorneys, entrepreneurs and teams. Suzi's strength lies in helping leaders and organizations find clarity within chaos. Her no-nonsense coaching approach is professional, conversational, intuitive, and results-oriented.

Ms. Pomerantz has over 15 years of coaching expertise. Her clients include leaders from Accenture, American Express Financial Advisors, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, DuPont, Freddie Mac, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, MONSTER.com, Pfizer, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Sears, Tyco, and others.

Suzi guides the executives she coaches to exceed prior performance through questions, dialogue, calculated risk, and the fundamental belief that each person has his or her own answers within. Suzi's coaching methodologies allow each executive to find those answers for himself/herself and design actions that are aligned and consistent with that clarity that produce hard business results. She provides structures and practices to support the implementation of those actions and the realization of each client's business and personal goals.

Ms. Pomerantz specializes in business development coaching in the relational intersection between sales, marketing, and networking. She helps leaders to demystify the sales process and implement a systematic process for business development. Ms. Pomerantz's coaching is credited with supporting:

  • The development and growth of the nationally acclaimed DuPont Legal Model which cut outside legal expenses by 48% producing bottom-line savings in excess of $50 million.


  • Strategic design and enhanced communication between the owners and partners of a professional services company and among the staff as well. Transformed the former command-control style of leadership of the company to a more collaborative, facilitative leadership model resulting in enhanced partner communication, and improving employee and partner engagement by 89%.


  • The leaders of a leadership development firm to articulate and achieve their vision and accomplish "that long-sought-after clarity" about the future growth of their business, which contributed to expanding into two new target market segments while doubling their number of associates.
She is a recognized leader in the advancement of the profession of coaching in organizations, serving on several international boards of directors. Suzi has presented at the International Executive Coaching Summit, an invitation-only annual gathering of senior executive coaching experts, and taught executive coaches at the Executive Coach Academy. She has also delivered guest lectures to undergraduate and master level classes at George Washington University, Loyola University, and the University of Virginia.

Suzi is a founding member of and frequent contributor to the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations (IJCO) and currently serves a second term on the editorial board. Suzi was the founding Vice President of POWER, a non-profit organization that provides trainers and consultants to charitable organizations. Suzi was awarded the 2007 Woman of Achievement Award as part of National Business Women's Week. Her book, Seal the Deal: The Essential Mindsets for Growing Your Professional Services Business, was published by HRD Press.

"Suzi's insight, methods of engagement and ability to bring out the best in everyone she coaches truly distinguishes her in the consultant world. She has been instrumental in promoting synergy within our legal teams and developing our legal personnel, some of whom have been risk adverse and very resistant to any proposed change. I would not hesitate, and would, indeed, encourage you, to contract Suzi for any proposed project."

--Thomas L. Sager, Esq.
Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, Chief Counsel of Litigation
DuPont



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