Suzanne Rotondo, MPA
Principal
Suzanne is the founding Principal of Redshift Leadership, a consultancy that specializes in leadership and culture, with a deep expertise in emotional intelligence and Positivity. As an experienced executive coach, leadership consultant, retreat session facilitator, and advisor to Boards of Directors and senior teams, Suzanne leads Redshift Leadership and personally commits herself to supporting both innovative for profit clients and social justice organizations across range of areas including human rights, gender/racial equity, access to economic opportunities, progressive policy/advocacy, sustainability, state/local government and game-changing problem solvers.
In this work, the focus is to build high performing teams through not only what is done, but how it is done, often in an effort to lead and implement change in organizations undergoing enormous transformation due to both internal and external shifts.
Over the last 15 years, Suzanne has worked with a variety of social justice organizations and non-profits including Sierra Club, Clinton Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Foundation (CZI), Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Healthcare without Harm, NYC LGBT Center, Philadelphia Mayor’s Office, Garrison Institute, Families USA, ParentsTogether, City Manager’s Office City of Eugene, Swarthmore College, Natural Resource Defense Council, and Open Society Foundation.
Suzanne draws upon extensive experience from her on-going work with select private sector companies, primarily in the media/entertainment sector, including BuzzFeed, MTV, Disney, ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Publishers), Paramount Studios, VH1, NBCUniversal, and Black Entertainment Television.
Suzanne holds a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and is an alum of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland’s IOS program, Teleos Leadership Institute’s Executive Coaching program as well as Robert Gass’s Art of Transformational Consulting program. Redshift Leadership makes annual donations of 5% of revenue to organizations that make a positive difference including Doctors without Borders, Heifer International, The Council on Aging, Howard University, CARE International, God’s Love We Deliver (nutrition delivery), Philabundance, NY Lawyers for Public Interest, Healthcare for the Homeless Clinicians’ Network, UNHC for the Rights of Refugees, Polaris Project and Breast Cancer Research.
Suzanne lives with her spouse, Karima Zedan, who leads a large community investment program to close the digital divide for low income Americans, and their teenager in Philadelphia.