Executive Advisor LLC- Helping Business Executives Build Confidence

Susan Marshall is an author, speaker, and independent business owner whose career spans more than 25 years and includes a wide range of experiences.

From an early start as an advertising assistant, she progressed through a series of marketing and general management roles before founding Executive Advisor, LLC in 1997. Along the way, she led a successful turnaround, raised a family, wrote a book and now speaks to a variety of audiences from community groups to senior executives. Her corporate and consulting experience includes work with General Motors, Nestle, Subaru of America, Harley-Davidson, Apple Computer, Hewitt Associates, the Society of Automotive Engineers, Kmart, Sears, and many others. She has been welcomed as a guest-lecturer at several University of Wisconsin campuses, and at Marquette University, Alverno College, the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

For two years, Susan served as a facilitator for the New York City Leadership Academy, one of only two selected nationally to assist the Academy in teaching public school principals the skills of transformational leadership. (Read more about the Leadership Academy. This link will open in a new window.)

Her own education blended work, family, and schooling in a 13-year quest to a Bachelor’s Degree in Management and another 2-1/2 years to complete work on an MBA. Her book, “How to Grow a Backbone: 10 Strategies for Gaining Power and Influence at Work,” published in 2000 by NTC/Contemporary Books, has been translated into German, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese.

When it comes to building executive confidence, Susan knows what she’s talking about. Through personal experience and hands-on work with executives from diverse industries at all levels, she has had the privilege of helping hundreds of people do the difficult and exhilarating work of growth.