Professional Speakers Bureau International

CEO & Chief Empowerment Officer

Meritage Leadership Development 

susan drumm, J.D., MCC

TOPICS - • Accountability • Communication

• Conflict Management • Delegation • Diversity

• Empowerment • Leadership • Mindset

• Performance • Trust

susan drumm- PROGRAMS

The Leader's Playlist: Unleash the power of music and neuroscience to transform your leadership and your life.


We all have a playlist running in the background of our lives that acts as a ceiling on our leadership effectiveness. You may feel you can’t retain or engage your people. You may feel burned out, or your team may be overwhelmed by the pace of change. You may feel that you can’t delegate or trust your team to deliver. The impact of the pandemic has been so far reaching that every leader has struggled in some way in the face of massive disruption.

The Leader’s Playlist will share a process to:

  • Uncover the playlist impacting your leadership
  • Share research that explains why music is a powerful tool for understanding and reshaping your behavior
  • Teach you how to leverage music to help you be a better leader

This isn’t just a metaphor. Music has the ability to help make change stick, by priming the neurological landscape to form new neural pathways in a faster, more efficient way. In this keynote, you will learn more about this unique approach and the tools to create a new, more powerful playlist that will transform your leadership and your life. 

Susan's Other Programs 
 

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Susan is an an Amazon #1 Bestselling Author and

USA Today Bestselling Author of The Leaders' Playlist

Unleash the Power of Music and Neuroscience to Transform Your Leadership and Your Life!

STRENGTHEN LEADERS

EMPOWER TEAMS

ACHIEVE HIGH PERFORMANCE


"Leadership is the Cornerstone of Success."

                                                                               - Susan Drumm

“When I inherited a large, new team at Oracle, Susan drove success in our business by helping us learn our working styles through the Enneagram assessment process and by guiding us to develop strong models for understanding and collaboration. Our engagement with Susan was an essential part of our turnaround strategy for the business.”

— ROB TARKOFF, EVP & GM, Oracle Corporation

“As an emerging healthcare business, our senior team formed quickly and we needed to drive results right out of the gate. Susan helped us understand the diversity of leadership styles on the team, how to leverage each other’s strengths and watch out for blind spots... trust, collaboration, and respect are now embedded in our culture and will be a foundation for our future growth.”

— HUGH LYTLE, CEO, Equality Health 

susan drumm - BIOGRAPHY

Susan Drumm is a CEO Advisor and Leadership Coach focused on helping leaders and their teams to develop the capacity and mindsets to lead in today’s disruptive environment. She has personally coached billionaire CEOs, high-ranking political figures, prominent Fortune 50 executive teams as well as incredible entrepreneurs that set out to disrupt the marketplace.


Her firm, Meritage Leadership, uses a cadre of seasoned coaches and consultants who work with senior leaders and executive teams. She is also the host of the podcast and YouTube channel The Enlightened Executive, where she interviews founders and CEOs on the most cutting-edge programs, assessments, apps and techniques in personal and leadership effectiveness.


Susan draws on many disciplines in her approach. She has graduate degrees from Harvard Law School, Carnegie Mellon University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Susan obtained the highest level of coaching certification as Master Certified Coach (MCC) through the International Coaching Federation and has been an executive coach for over 20 years. Susan also holds certifications in HeartMathTM, Integrative Enneagram (Level 2), EQ Learning in Action, Havening Techniques® and The Leadership Circle.


Susan’s clients include C-suite executives from financial services, private equity, tech, healthcare, professional services, media, consumer products, consulting and law. She has worked with organizations such as KPMG, Oracle, Viacom, Microsoft, Conde Nast, L’Oreal, A&E Networks, Cisco, Merrill Lynch, Symantec, Merck, KCI, Staples, MTV Networks and Genentech.


Prior to founding Meritage Leadership Development, Susan was a Senior Consultant for The Boston Consulting Group, Director of Marketing and Master Black Belt for NBC/GE and Associate Partner at The Trium Group in leadership development consulting.



Susan is a member of EO (Entrepreneur’s Organization) and volunteers her time with several boards and organizations including Selfless Givers. Susan serves clients globally and lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is passionate about international travel, hiking, Pilates, meditation retreats and her “fur baby,” Jasmine, a toy Australian Shepherd. 

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susan drumm- MEDIA

"An incredible new look at using music to improve our leadership, behavior, and, ultimately, our lives! Susan's concepts are approachable for any reader, backed with the research and experience to leave you equipped with practical knowledge and an understanding of how you can use the psychology to influence every area of your life.”

— Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is the Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There 

Susan's Book

The Leader's Playlist

We all have a playlist running in the background of our lives that acts as a ceiling on our leadership effectiveness. You may feel you can’t retain or engage your people. You may feel burned out, or your team may be overwhelmed by the pace of change. You may feel that you can’t delegate or trust your team to deliver. The impact of the pandemic has been so far reaching that every leader has struggled in some way in the face of massive disruption.

The Leader’s Playlist will share a process to:

  • Uncover the playlist impacting your leadership
  • Share research that explains why music is a powerful tool for understanding and reshaping your behavior
  • Teach you how to leverage music to help you be a better leader
  • This isn’t just a metaphor. Music has the ability to help make change stick, by priming the neurological landscape to form new neural pathways in a faster, more efficient way. In this book, you will learn more about this unique approach and the tools to create a new, more powerful playlist that will transform your leadership and your life.
  • Overview:
  • This book is about uncovering a leader’s internal playlist, which is burned into the deepest recesses of the brain through childhood trauma and which directly reduces their leadership effectiveness and personal happiness. My work is to help the leader hear the playlist and understand how it has impacted their life and leadership. With awareness comes the opportunity to heal wounds, the empowerment to create a new playlist, to improve their leadership and their lives, and, ultimately, to focus on helping humanity rather than inflicting further wounds on the next generation. 
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