Susan Levin is a global facilitator, coach, trainer, mediator, and organization development practitioner with 30 years of experience. She has worked with thousands of employees in a variety of organizations in the United States and more than 40 countries. She focuses on an appreciative approach that maximizes individual and organizational strengths to get great results that have lasting impact. 

Susan has worked in a variety of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) projects. She designed, facilitated, and produced a virtual Zoom retreat for the Gender Practitioners Collaborative, an informal group of U.S.-based gender advisors and technical gender experts from international development and humanitarian organizations that developed minimum standards for gender equality across every sector. She has also designed and led women’s leadership programs for Creative Associates; a microcredit program in Bosnia-Herzegovina for the Grameen Bank and Women for Women International; and for women entrepreneurs and NGO leaders in Russia sponsored by the Peace Corps, the Eurasia Foundation, World Learning, and International Network for Women in Enterprise and Trade.

Additionally, Susan led workshops on unconscious bias, inclusion, and management, as well as white privilege for clients such as U.S. Department of Justice Community Policing Consortium; Montgomery College Diversity Management Institute; International Association of Firefighters; and the National MultiCultural Institute. As part of series for National Public Radio, she wrote a guidebook on affirmative action and diversity in the workplace to help organizations attract, hire, and retain a diverse workforce. And she designed and delivered training on issues of race, age, ability, culture, gender and violence at the University of Virginia to prepare them to facilitate dialogue groups across the campus. 

Susan has a master’s degree in international affairs from The George Washington University and graduated from University of Florida, after transferring from Tufts University.