Susan Bernstein

Prior to founding Work from Within, Dr. Susan Bernstein spent fifteen years in marketing, management consulting, and executive development roles. At Accenture, she crafted strategies for Fortune 500 retail and healthcare clients. Susan also developed the Advanced Management Program, a mini-MBA to help fast-track new managers with core business analytics. For Intel, she created innovative tools to increase salesforce productivity. For a company acquired by Franklin-Covey, Susan developed and marketed new time management training products to leading corporations. She also launched a company to help children exponentially increase their learning capacity.

Susan earned an MBA at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in Somatic Psychology from the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. Her doctoral research investigates the ways in which body awareness becomes a form of wisdom in the career transition process. It weaves together theories regarding learning, motivation, self-efficacy, transformational processes, body-based learning, and integrates the disciplines of philosophy, biology, and psychology.