After a rigorous nomination, application, and interview process, Kolbe Corp is excited to announce the winners of this year’s Conative Excellence Awards!
This award honors a Kolbe Certified™ Consultant who has developed a high level of expertise in Kolbe Theory and has used Kolbe products and methodologies to impact organizations and/or individuals.
Leadership Coach/Consultant
Susan Spritz Myers specializes in leadership development and supports clients in building individual and team strategies for improving collaboration and productivity.
Susan’s clients, including CEOs, heads of business units, lawyers, and senior executives, experience a transformative journey under her guidance. Her clients report a profound increase in how they work, contribute, lead, and communicate with greater impact and ease.
Susan is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF). The MCC certification is the highest credential granted by the ICF. Susan is also a Kolbe Certified™ Team Specialist working with individuals and teams to leverage their innate problem-solving talents. Results produce significantly increased mental energy, reduced exhaustion, strain, and tension, and empowered working relationships and collaboration.
Susan artfully uses many other assessments to serve clients. She has the “right” tools to support each client’s needs. Susan is certified in The Leadership Circle, Korn Ferry’s Emotional and Social Competency Inventory, EQi, Bates Executive Presence Assessment, and the Strengths Profile (recently renamed Skills Discovery). Each assessment helps clients strengthen their self-awareness and leadership agility.
Susan has been a coach for over 28 years. She earned her coach certification from the Coaches Training Institute and keeps her practice fresh through a lifelong commitment to continuing education. She is intrigued by the story of each of her client organizations, the people behind them, and the relationship dynamics at play.
Susan’s extensive work experience, natural curiosity, keen emotional intelligence skills, and years as a seasoned coach greatly benefit her clients. Before becoming a coach, Susan worked in hotel sales, ran a national travel club, and led a Midwest account management and sales team for a direct marketing company. Her diverse experiences give her a first-hand perspective on the complexity of leadership and team development. Susan’s clients report remarkable results and have great fun in the process!
“Without Kolbe, I would be trying to guess how people operate, and my ability to help my coaching clients make the changes they desire would be greatly diminished. I have embedded Kolbe in almost every single work engagement, and it’s the cornerstone of everything I do with individual leaders and teams. I also share it with family and friends, and it has completely influenced my kids’ positive education and careers.”
This award honors a company for using Kolbe solutions to make a difference in an organization or organizations at an enterprise level with demonstrable results.
Organizations grow and thrive when their team members do. At humanworks8, we’re committed to helping organizations reach their next level of success through more sustainable and effective people practices.
We build solutions that recognize eight universal truths about people: Everyone… Is Unique, Believes, Connects, Contributes, Rises, Learns, Thrives and Matters. These truths translate to eight organizational disciplines that, when continually nurtured and strengthened, result in lasting, authentic cultures and ultimately, excellent places to work.
Our team works alongside you, becoming an extension of your team and developing disciplines and tools that are aligned to your organization’s culture and Way of working.
Our Core Values: Champion People, Be Authentic, Elevate, Breathe, Wonder
humanworks8 Winning Consultants:
“As we celebrate our 6th Anniversary, we look forward to a future of growth: growth in our knowledge and practice of the Kolbe theory, growth in the number of clients using Kolbe, and growth in expanding the message that the freedom to be oneself at work and in life is what it’s all about. There’s no better way for us to use our energy and our action but to bring Kolbe to life for more people and more organizations. We’ve seen it, and we believe it.” – Shawn Gulyas, Founder, humanworks8
