Experience/Background:
Susan Ujifusa Diamond is a highly experienced Executive Coach and Career Consultant. She has a solid reputation for helping clients in Fortune 500s develop "executive presence," particularly in high potentials or individual contributors and technical professionals whose next promotions require managerial finesse and leadership skills.

Susan assists senior leaders to develop positive work team cultures. She sharpens oral and written presentation skills. Her approach identifies behaviors that align with corporate goals and leads individuals to greater personal satisfaction. Known for warmth, humor and enthusiasm, Susan encourages clients to clarify personal values and to realistically assess work-life balance or diversity issues.

Mrs. Diamond has had extensive experience in original creation, design, delivery and management of career services, including for Mobil Corporation. Because of the groundbreaking nature of this Center, Susan was selected to be a presenter at a Department of Defense Symposium on Best Civilian Outplacement Practices at the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, with proceedings published by the National Academy Press. She created content for the online Talent Alliance, a consortium of 15 major corporations. Most recently as founding CEO of the Career Resources Consortium, she designed a unique virtual and live Career and Executive Coaching service for the 80,000 member and 100,000 candidate Charted Financial Analysts Institute (formerly AIMR). Susan produced "Welcome to School in America," to explain the unwritten nuances of school life for foreign-born children and parents, published by Hitachi America, which won a County Executive's Volunteer of the Year award. She enjoyed a successful 10-year career as an editor in an educational publishing company, during which time she was also president of the Junior League of Westchester-on-Hudson, a pioneer community service organization for young women.

For A4SL, Susan is the Marketing and Project Leader for professional certification in Marshall Goldsmith's Behavioral Coaching Methodology.

Education:
M.A. Organizational Psychology - Columbia University, Teachers College New York.
B.A. History - Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Clients:
AlliedSignal, AOL, Avon, BMG, CIBC, Ciba, Colgate-Palmolive, Credit Suisse First Boston, Domino Sugar, Ernst & Young, Estee Lauder, First Union Capital Markets, Harper Collins, HBO, HSBC, Hitachi, ING Baring, InStyle, Latina, Lifetime, Lockheed Martin (Martin Marietta), Lucent, MONY, MTV, Merrill Lynch, Mobil Corporation, Money Magazine, Morgan Stanley, Nickelodeon, NATEXIS, New York Times, Oxford Shirts, People en Espanol, Pepsi-Cola Company, Pepsico Foods & Beverages, Random House, Schering-Plough, Seagram's, S.I.A.C. and Sector (NY Stock Exchange),Scholastic, Time Inc., Time Picture Collection, SI A, Reader's Digest, (Sidley Austin) Brown & Wood, UBS, YWCA of the USA.

Instruments Certification/Training:
Myers-Briggs: Steps I and Il, Stress; Strong Interest Inventory, Campbell Interest and Skills Inventory, FIRO-B, 16 pf, Leadership Effectiveness Analysis, Organizational Culture Inventory, Rational-Emotive (Ellis) Cognitive Primary Certificate. A4SL Behavioral Coaching, Emotional Intelligence.

International Experience:
Odyssey Art at Sea Certified Instructor - Crystal, Raddisson and Oceana Cruise Lines.