Susan Schuman

Ms. Schuman is Chief Executive Officer of SYPartners, a consultancy that partners with the world’s most senior leaders undergoing business and cultural transformations. Ms. Schuman has worked alongside Fortune 100 CEOs and their teams to help build their strategies, cultures and human behaviors throughout their organizations. She has worked with executives at AARP, Ascena, Ann Inc., Blackstone, CitiVentures, Coach, Kohl’s, IBM, eBay, Facebook, GE, Target, Starbucks, Oprah Winfrey Network, Weight Watchers, Viacom, The CW and Yahoo!, among many others.

Prior to SYPartners, Ms. Schuman was the General Manager of Studio Archetype, one of the first premier web design firms in the U.S. She also ran her own marketing and product strategy consulting firm. Ms. Schuman spent seven years at Apple Computer, where she was Group Manager of Worldwide Product Marketing. Ms. Schuman is a member of the kyu leadership council and an Advisory Council member for MIT Media Lab, and sits on the boards of IDEO and IDEO.org.