S U S A N H Y M A N
Intuitive Strategies for Personal & Professional Development
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The primary focus for my community work has been centered around providing leadership development to at risk women and teens in high performing to high risk school communities, and at a correctional center for adolescent girls. Across the board our youth are over-stressed and many are under-engaged in a way that elicits their unique gifts and innate abilities. Through coaching and facilitated programs, we encourage them to “tap” into their strengths, passions and abilities, to achieve their desired goals.
Illinois Youth Center Warrenville - Warrenville, Illinois high school, prison & corrections facility.
Developed and led programs which incorporated mindfulness practices such as yoga and meditation. Facilitated group discussion to promote self-awareness and positive interactions with others and provided individual coaching. Designed & facilitated self-awareness/development/yoga & meditation program for incarcerated teen girls.
The Enterprising Kitchen- Developed & Facilitated Group Coaching Program for at-risk women.
Walter Payton College Prep- Chicago, Illinois- Develop, Facilitate & Coach Leadership Development Seminars
Net Impact Conference - coach students from top MBA schools nationally at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business
Young Women’s Council (YWC), Co-created & facilitated leadership program
"Susan is to coaching what Robert Redford's character in the Horse Whisperer was to horses... she just gets it."
Net impact Participant
"I honestly think it changed my
life. I had never really put into
words the things I was
thinking about or really talked about them…or even consciously knew that these were fascinating things to me. The meetings changed my life course and made me realize what I wanted to study-to focus my energy on...this is where, at least for me, one is able to piece together random thoughts into a sort of unified life picture."
Brady W., Student, Walter Payton College Prep class president, Harvard University, Stanford graduate student
"I was very stressed about what to do. I was so anxious that I felt immobilized and helpless. Susan guided me through the various sources of my distress and helped me transition from panic to a feeling of empowerment using visualization and careful self-analysis exercises. The outcome was ultimate success!"
Caroline T., Student, Princeton University