|
Meet Sue Dorward, Tech Leadership Coach Sue coaches emerging and high potential technical leaders, helping them to build the leadership, managerial, and interpersonal skills that they need to excel. Sue's clients include directors, managers, and senior staff in the technology, pharmaceutical, and telecommunications industries. Sue coaches Johnson & Johnson's Senior Leadership Development program for managers in Information Management, and has coached for Google Engineering's Coaching Center and Smith College Executive Education's Specialist to Strategist program for STEM women transitioning to management. Sue takes a behavioral, action-oriented approach to coaching that draws on established methods for learning and change, including adult learning theory, Prochaska’s change model, and coaching work by Marshall Goldsmith and Marybeth O’Neill. She also leverages research and ideas from the emerging field of neuroleadership, including work by her coaching instructor and neuroleadership pioneer David Rock. Sue trained as an Organizational and Executive Coach at New York University and is certified by the International Coaching Federation. She has an MS in Computer Science from Princeton University, a BS in Computer Science (English minor) from Smith College, and a certificate in Leadership Development from Rutgers University. Sue is a certified instructor for Business and Professional Women USA’s Individual Development Program for building leadership and communication skills. In addition, she has published articles in IEEE's new Women in Engineering magazine and IEEE Engineering Management Society newsletter. She has presented at Google, Grace Hopper conferences, the Society of Women Engineers annual conference, and elsewhere. As a technology vice president, 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 an instructor 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. Sue actively contributes to the community. Through MentorNet, Sue has e-mentored female computer science and engineering students since 2001. She has served on the review committee for the Anita Borg Institute's Systers Pass-It-On Awards, the board of a local childcare center that serves underprivileged families, and the boards of businesswomen's organizations in NJ and NY. Sue is a member of the New Jersey Professional Coaches Association (NJPCA), Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute for Engineering and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). |
|
|||
|
For more information about Sue's experience, download her resume (pdf). | ||||
