Susan is a seasoned business professional with over 20 years experience advising organizations in transition. She brings real-world, practical solutions to working with small and mid-size business and nonprofit clients. Susan has helped CEOs transform companies, taking them from start-up to long-term success and/or exit, and has offered guidance during critical periods of rapid growth or turnaround.

As an expert in the areas of advisory board formation and facilitation, finance, operations, governance, and leadership coaching, Susan C. Hammond’s experience spans multiple industries including professional services, technology, direct marketing, financial services, communications, human resources and nonprofit.

Susan C. Hammond has hands-on experience as the founder of two organizations and as a member of the senior management team of others. With her broad network of business contacts, she can also provide complimentary professional referrals for issues outside her areas of expertise.

A popular speaker and panelist at venues including the MIT Enterprise Forum, Bentley University, and Northeastern University, Susan has been published in The Boston Business Journal, Mass High Tech, and other professional publications. She recently published the Advisory Board Kit: A Comprehensive Guide to Establishing an Advisory Board.

Education

With an MS in Taxation from Bentley University, a BS in Business Administration, with a concentration in accounting, from Northeastern University, Susan holds a CPA certificate from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. To build upon her existing skills as a management consultant, she completed coaches training through both the Arbinger Institute and the Coaches Training Institute.

Community Service

Susan is a co-founder of the South Shore Women’s Business Network and the Center for Women & Enterprise. She serves as a Business Volunteer for the Arts through the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston and previously served on the Board of Directors where she chaired the committee planning the merger with the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. In the late 1990’s she led a group of dedicated volunteers in securing the funding to build the Town of Duxbury’s first stand alone senior center.

Susan serves as a mentor to young women at some of the leading local business schools and sits on the Advisory Boards of Bentley University’s Women’s Leadership Institute and Micro-Finance Initiative.

Awards

Susan is a recipient of The President’s Call to Service Award which recognizes individuals with 4,000 hours or more of lifetime community service. She is also a past recipient of the  Small Business Administration’s Women in Business Advocate award for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the South Shore Women’s Business Network’s “Women Mean Business Award.”