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Coaching With Susan

Susan Beaird offers coaching for mission-driven women who are ready to lead with integrity, confidence, and purpose.

Her coaching approach blends real-world leadership experience with deep personal insight, helping clients break through overwhelm and reconnect with their power.

Coaching Options Include:

  • One-on-One Coaching
    Personalized support tailored to your unique goals and leadership challenges.

  • Group Coaching
    Connect and grow with like-minded women in a supportive, dynamic environment.

  • Interactive Zoom Workshops
    Practical, action-oriented sessions focused on themes such as:

    • Personal Attraction – Authentic strategies for engaging others by exposing your passion.

    • Self-Care for the Givers – Tools to restore balance for those who give until it hurts

    • Empowerment – Reclaim your voice, vision, and value

Susan brings a wealth of lived experience as both an entrepreneur and executive across for-profit and nonprofit sectors. She knows success—and failure—firsthand and uses both to inform her compassionate, no-nonsense coaching style.

As Founder and President, she developed Lickskillet Plantation into one of the leading Thoroughbred breeding operations in the region. She also founded and led Women’s Home Improvement, a Denver-based nonprofit that trained low-income women in construction skills.

Since 2000, Susan has brought her deep well of insight, integrity, and strategic thinking into the world of coaching—supporting women leaders who are ready to thrive, not just survive.

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Book Susan for Your Next Event

Looking for a keynote speaker who understands nonprofit leadership from the inside out?

Susan Beaird brings decades of lived experience, heartfelt wisdom, and practical strategies to the stage. Whether she’s speaking at national conferences, team retreats, or organizational trainings, Susan delivers compelling talks that leave audiences feeling seen, inspired, and empowered.

Her signature topics include:

  • Burnout Recovery for Mission-Driven Leaders

  • Reclaiming Power: From Burnout to Boundaries

  • Leading With Heart: Women, Leadership & Resilience

  • The Wonder Woman Within: Empowerment for Nonprofit Executives

Susan’s keynotes are ideal for:

  • Nonprofit & philanthropic conferences

  • Leadership summits

  • Women’s empowerment events

  • In-house trainings for nonprofit teams or mission-driven businesses

Susan’s talks are heartfelt, empowering, and grounded in real-life experience. If your audience is ready for inspiration with substance—and tools they can actually use—Susan is ready to deliver.

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Memberships /Associations

Memphis Botanical Gardens
Member of the International Coaching Federation
Suburban Garden Club of Germantown, Tn.
Director of the Charles T. and Carolyn W. Beaird Family Foundation

Certificate awarded to Susan Beaird for completing the Coach U Graduate program, dated November 1999, with signatures of the founder and president on a green marble background.

Educational Background

BA from Rhodes College
Graduate work at LSUS and SMU
Graduate of Coach University