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Susanne Goldstein MPA, BA, AB
Susanne Goldstein Quick Facts
Main Areas: Business Strategy, User Experience Design, Product Marketing, Personal Career Branding, Career & Life CoachingBest Sellers: Carry A Paintbrush : How to Be the Artistic Director of Your Own Career
Career Focus: Consultant, Author, Speaker, Teacher
Affiliation: Harvard Kennedy School, Cornell School of Engineering, National Theatre of Great Britain, OpenTable.com, Microsoft, Evite, Zimbio, Walt Disney Studios, Mass General Hospital, Yahoo, Business Insider, Huffington Post, AOL-Jobs, Babson MBA Program, Mass College of Art & Design, USC Conference for Women
Susanne Goldstein is a master storyteller, practical problem solver and self-made business woman. Her unique tell-it-like-it-is style and spot-on advice shine throughout her speaking engagements, and in her best-selling book Carry a Paintbrush: How To Be The Artistic Director of Your Own Career. Susanne is a contributor for The Huffington Post, Business Insider and AOL-Jobs.
Susanne’s diverse background in Hollywood movie-making, business strategy, user experience design, teaching, speaking and coaching has allowed her to help countless individuals, teams, companies and audiences define what success means to them, and then move them to achieve it.
Susanne’s “little tough love, lotta technique” speeches about career development have garnered rave reviews at universities around the country, as have her courses at in Interactive Product Design at The Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and in Leadership for Social Entrepreneurs at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.
In the business world, Susanne is known as “The Accelerator” for her ability to quickly understand complex challenges, crystallize concrete and effective concepts and plans, and accelerate their execution. Susanne designed the interface for the popular reservation site OpenTable.com, worked on the original development of Microsoft.com and was instrumental with the development of Harvard Kennedy School’s Social Entrepreneurship program.
To date she has worked with over 50 companies and organizations throughout the country, and is currently working with an online brokerage to re-imagine the future of online investing.
Susanne has a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an A.B. in Theatre and Film Studies from Cornell University. She sits on the Patient Advocacy Council at Massachusetts General Hospital as well as the Advisory Boards for Fosfo, WorldBlue Inc., and JewishBoston.com.
