Susan L.

CEO at Innovation Storytellers

Public Speaking/Storytelling

Education: Dickinson College
New York, NY, USA

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Biography

Susan Lindner is the Founder and CEO of Innovation Storytellers, a leading innovation storytelling consulting firm. She is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, workshop leader, messaging strategist, storytelling coach, and the world’s leading expert on innovation storytelling.

Susan draws from her initial experiences as an anthropologist and international aid worker in rural Thailand in the 1990s, where she shared stories that helped at-risk populations disproportionately affected by AIDS to slow the virus’ spread. Today, as a 20-year communications expert, she is committed to using those same storytelling skills to inspire innovation leaders everywhere to become incredible storytellers and ensure that their innovations get the resources, runway, and recognition they deserve.

Susan is the host of Innovation Storytellers, a weekly podcast that takes the mystery out of how to communicate breakthrough ideas to the people who matter most. Every week, Susan interviews top global innovation leaders from companies like Amazon, Bloomberg, Cisco, Corning, and Tesla about the stories that moved their innovations past the boardroom, lab, and production line and into our everyday lives.

Susan speaks at global conferences, consulates, and trade organizations. She has worked with C-level leaders and teams from over 60 countries at Fortune 100 companies like GE, Corning, Citi, AT&T, Arm & Hammer on their innovation storytelling strategies. The result? Those innovation leaders become incredible storytellers who go on to change the world. Susan is driven to ensure every breakthrough idea reaches its finish line through powerful stories that connect to every listener and power that brilliant idea forward.

Passion

My passion is to ensure that every innovation reaches its market. I will not let any innovation fail because the innovator, product manager, CEO, or visionary can't tell the story around their innovation. By sharing the lessons of Innovation Storytelling, I show innovators how to tell their stories to get the resources, runway, and recognition they deserve.

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I am willing to travel

More than 100 miles

When it comes to payments

Everything is negotiable

Topics

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Origin Story

What happens when your father was a Holocaust refugee and your mother was an unwilling member of the Hitler Youth Corps? You grow up living and hearing incredible stories of tolerance, resilience, revolution, and re-invention. My childhood began with disruption and a thirst to understand how stories shape our lives, from the battlefields of WWII to the jungles of Central America and the brothels of South East Asia. My studies in Anthropology and Religion, coupled with my passion for communications and molded me into a lifetime of creating stories that help people, companies, and products to transform through innovation storytelling. After helping hundreds of companies from 60+ countries, I've created a trademarked Innovation Storytelling blueprint to help any innovators break out of their scientific and technical roles and incorporate storytelling into their day to day lives. The result is a richer and more effective innovation agenda.