Susan Marshall
Susan Marshall is an author, speaker, and Founder of Backbone Institute, LLC, whose mission is to create a stronger, more confident future one person or team at a time. Her work over nearly 30 years with leaders in public and private sector industry, non-profit agencies, and public education is dedicated to building strong leaders who in turn create successful organizations, transform school systems, and develop leaders at all levels.
Are you a vitamin or a virus?
Just as no snowflake in an avalanche feels responsible, it is easy for individuals to shrug off personal responsibility for how their actions affect the work environment.
The passive voice of failure
Something struck me the other day as I was reading yet another article about the declining nature of American...
Employee engagement: Your power strategy for 2016
Employee engagement has been a perennial concern for organizations for many years, and with good reason. Studies have consistently...
Embrace our differences: Inclusion is an act of confidence
In order to compete more successfully in business, we must draw upon the skills and experience of a diverse...
Personal integrity: The foundation for leadership credibility
What’s your limit? When do you know you’ve “had enough” of whatever is bothering you? Whether it is pressure at work, declining health or dysfunction in a personal relationship, what is it that finally makes you change your life?
An odd question? Perhaps. But it’s one worth considering if you’re serious about finding success and happiness.
An odd question? Perhaps. But it’s one worth considering if you’re serious about finding success and happiness.
The Wills and the Will Nots
For generations, we have lamented the growing disparity between the Haves and the Have Nots and blamed it for the degeneration that surrounds us. But this gap is a result of something more fundamental: the disparity between the Wills and the Will Nots.
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Change won’t be easy at MPS
In 2003, Susan Marshall, president of Oconomowoc-based Executive Advisor LLC, was hired by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to assist with his takeover of that city's school system. She was part of a team of facilitators at the New York Leadership Academy who were brought in to teach transformational leadership to more than 600 principals in the school system.
