Suze Shaner–Brodax, PCC, MA, MSc, RYT, HHC
Suze's promise is to co-create a relationship with you that fosters trust, support and also challenge, so that you are able to be your best self, achieving your vision and goals. She offers an eclectic background and an integration of skills and experience that brings a dynamic creativity to a coaching partnership.
Suze is the Founder & President of Sage Leadership Strategies, LLC, a firm focused on conscious leadership, team and organization development. She is an executive coach, leadership & organization development consultant and wellness practitioner with over 30 years’ business experience. She is currently in seminary working toward her ordination as an interfaith minister, focused on helping people live their purpose and passion in ways that best serves her clients and the world at this time of great change.
Suze supports leaders to achieve their potential, and deliver on sustainable results that matter to them and their constituents. She has worked with leaders globally, and at all levels - CEOs to first-line leaders - at Fortune 50 companies, small and mid-size organizations. Sample industries: healthcare, technology, financial services, entertainment, media, publishing, education, nonprofit, consumer goods & manufacturing.
Prior to founding Sage, Suze held leadership positions at Accenture, IBM, GE, Healthnet, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and Data Switch Corporation. She’s a passionate lover of gardening, the outdoors and travel, a visual artist, and foodie who lives with her husband and has a blended family of three adult children.
Education
- Master of Science in Human Resource Education and Organization Development Consulting, Fordham University
- Master of Arts in Expressive Art Therapy, Lesley University
- Bachelor of Arts in English Literature with honors, Boston College
- IBM Strategic Leadership Forum, Executive Education (Senior Leadership Team Facilitator), Harvard University
Certifications
Suze is certified in dozens of assessments and models (and will reference what is most relevant for her client) including:
- Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaches Federation
- Weatherhead Coaching Certificate
- Hogan Leadership Series
- Core Certified Coach, Human Edge
- EQ-I Certified Coach, Multi-Health Systems, Inc.
- Accelerating Coaching Excellence, Coaching.com
- The Hay Group Leadership Styles and Climate, Korn Ferry
- Managing Motivation for Performance, The Hay Group
- GE Six Sigma Greenbelt
- Conscious Business Coaching, BetterUp
- Brain-Based Coaching, The NeuroLeadership Institute
- Science of Happiness, Positive Acorn
- Herman Brain Dominance Indicator
- Comprehensive Course on Interpersonal Neurobiology, Mindsight Institute
- Certified Holistic Health Counselor, Institute for Integrative Nutrition
- Kundalini Yoga, KRI Institute
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