Meet Sue Dorward, Management Coach

Sue specializes in coaching emerging technical leaders, helping them to build the leadership, managerial, and interpersonal skills that they need to excel. Sue's clients include managers and senior staff in the technology, pharmaceutical, and telecommunications industries. Sue coaches for Johnson & Johnson's Leadership 21 program for managers in Information Management, and Smith College's Specialist to Strategist program for women engineers. Sue also provides coaching services through Meryl Moritz Resources, an executive development firm based in New York.

Sue takes a behavioral, action-oriented approach to coaching and draws on established methods for learning and change, including adult learning theory, Prochaska’s change model, and work by coaching pioneers Marshall Goldsmith, Marybeth O’Neill, and David Rock.

Sue trained as an Organizational and Executive Coach at New York University. She has an MS in Computer Science from Princeton University and a certificate in Leadership Development from Rutgers University. Sue is certified to teach the Business and Professional Women (BPW) USA’s Individual Development Program on Leadership. In addition, she writes articles for the IEEE's Engineering Management Society newsletter and has contributed to books on the foundations of coaching and technical project management. She gave her "Coaching Geeks" presentation to a standing-room only audience at the ACM-sponsored 2006 Grace Hopper conference

As a senior technical manager, Sue built highly productive teams in dynamic business environments, leading them through periods of growth, acquisition, and consolidation. She has led technical teams and projects for pharmaceutical companies such as Bayer and Johnson & Johnson, and for online media companies CNET, iVillage, and Hearst Interactive. As a lecturer and researcher, Sue served on the Computer Science Department faculties at Drew University and Smith College, performed research at Bell Laboratories, and was awarded a doctoral fellowship by the National Science Foundation.

For more information about Sue's experience, download her resume (pdf).