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Suzanne is the Founder CEO of Powers Creativity, a company dedicated to helping organizations and people unleash creativity to drive business impact. This company is founded on the belief that creativity is not a happy accident, but rather requires diagnostically-driven intentional design to craft and calibrate the conditions for creativity to thrive. Powering creativity is not only Suzanne’s passion; it channels her extensive global experience of partnering with many of the world’s most famous companies and brands including Apple, Coca Cola, Mastercard, Mars, Nespresso, Microsoft, Nivea, GM, Cigna, Mondolez, Reckitt, L’Oreal, Visa, State Street and beyond. Most recently, Suzanne spent the last ten years transforming McCann Worldgroup, Interpublic Group’s preeminent global creative network, into a world-renowned strategic and creative powerhouse working across all agencies, geographies, and brands. She held a variety of roles across the company including Global Chief Strategy Officer, Global President, Global Chief Product Officer, and Chair of FutureBrand. Suzanne was named ""2019 Chief Strategy Officer of the Year"" and during her tenure, the network won global “Agency of the Year” recognitions from Fast Company, Cannes, the Effies, WARC, Clio, the One Show for consecutive years. She’s currently a Board Member for the Effies, the Clios, and the non-exec chair of The Talent Business, a global executive talent agency. She has chaired the APG for the 4A’s, and is a powerful keynote speaker, zealous mentor, and awards Jury Chair and President many times over. She was awarded by She Runs It/Advertising Women of NY as a “Catalyst of Innovation.” Prior to McCann Worldgroup, Suzanne served as Global Chief Strategy Officer at Crispin Porter + Bogusky and TBWA, two of the world’s most creative shops in the advertising industry.