Susan Drumm—Igniting Performance Through Pattern Transformation
The Secret to Leadership Success?
Breaking the Patterns that Hold You Back.
Susan’s inspiring keynotes offer executives and teams practical tools to uncover destructive patterns and build new pathways to exponential results.
“Susan’s enthusiastic style, coupled with her expertise in leadership, creates a thought-provoking and impactful experience.”
Tara Collison
PhD, PCC, CISCO
The Neuroscience of Leadership:
Harnessing Pattern-Recognition to Unlock Leadership Development
The brain operates on a powerhouse of patterns, constantly shaping how executives think, lead, and connect.
But not all patterns are allies.
Some drive leaders’ greatest successes; others quietly undermine their leadership potential.
As leaders navigate exponential complexity and change in the marketplace, building the skills to recognize and shift patterns that inhibit performance is vital to long-term success.
Susan Drumm helps audiences uncover and rewire these patterns.
By tapping into the brain’s incredible ability to adapt, she equips executives with practical, science-backed tools to:
Recognize and disrupt limiting behaviors for themselves and their team.
Build new neural pathways that fuel bold, confident leadership.
Create ripple effects that inspire teams and transform organizations.
Her keynote blends cutting-edge neuroscience with decades of experience guiding high-performing leaders to think and lead differently.
Leadership Change Agent & Pattern-Recognition Expert
Susan Drumm works with billionaire CEOs, high-profile political figures, Fortune 100 teams, successful entrepreneurs, and rising star executives, along with brands like Cisco, ICONIQ, L’Oreal, and Microsoft.
Over the past two decades, she has been instrumental in building high-performance teams to lead in today’s disruptive environment, enabling them to unlock their leadership potential, resulting in multi-million-dollar growth.
Susan’s unique blend of expertise, derived from her MA in acting, J.D. from Harvard Law School, and strategy consulting at The Boston Consulting Group, sets her apart as “the real deal” and an outstanding speaker.
She has spoken at companies such as:
“Susan’s enthusiastic style, coupled with her expertise in leadership, creates a thought-provoking and impactful experience.”
TARA COLLISON
Ph.D., PCC, Cisco
“Susan’s expertise with individual and team dynamics was extremely helpful in getting our teams to work together more effectively.”
BRIA MARTIN
Vice President, Organizational Strategy and Leadership Development,
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical
“Susan helped us approach our challenges, roles, and clients with the right mindset. She made a lasting impact on our team, resulting in better communication tools and trust across the team.”
SUMITA BANJEREE
Senior Vice President Talent Acquisition, L’Oreal Americas
“Susan’s keynote on effective communication was the highlight of our retreat.”
KRISTINE CAMPBELL
Assistant General Counsel, U-Haul International
“Susan took music, and showed how it is a purposeful tool to align, motivate and guide leaders through the challenges we all face.”
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Entrepreneurs Organization Silicon Valley
Ignite Your Audience’s Leadership Performance by Unlocking the Skill of Pattern Recognition and Disruption.
Tailored for Every Leadership Audience
Susan’s keynotes inspire action, no matter who is in the room.
Executive Leaders
Cut through complexity with strategies that drive impact at the top.
High-Performing Teams
Build trust, spark collaboration, and fuel innovation.
Rising Stars
Equip future leaders with the confidence to make their mark.
Deliver insights that address today’s biggest leadership challenges – from navigating disruption to developing team cohesion to driving business results.
Susan connects with audiences at every level, leaving them ready to lead with clarity, purpose, and bold action.
Susan Drumm’s keynote topics
The Leader’s Playlist
Unlocking the power of music to break patterns and unleash a new world for you and your team.
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Old patterns, stale results. If you want to lead in today’s environment – full of unprecedented levels of change and disruption—you need new ways to think, act, and inspire.
Breaking free from deeply ingrained habits isn’t easy—unless you have the right tools.
Susan Drumm brings over 20 years of experience working with top CEOs to help leaders uncover and shift the patterns that hold them back. Through her innovative approach, she shows how music can supercharge your ability to rewire the brain, creating lasting change faster than traditional methods.
This keynote introduces a powerful, science-backed method to use music as a catalyst for personal growth and leadership transformation.
Key Takeaways:
- Identify the hidden patterns limiting your leadership potential.
- Understand the neuroscience of how music accelerates personal and team breakthroughs.
- Create a personalized playlist to inspire new ways of thinking, leading, and achieving.
Enlightened Leadership Through the Enneagram
Elevating leadership and performance by breaking old patterns and building new pathways.
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Today’s workplace is a maze of hybrid teams, virtual connections, and shifting dynamics. Building cohesion and trust has never been more challenging—or more essential. To lead effectively in this environment, leaders must understand the patterns and habits that limit their effectiveness and transform them into new ways of operating that elevate performance and results.
For over 20 years, Susan Drumm has used the Enneagram to help executives unlock their leadership potential and build high-performing teams. Unlike traditional tools like DISC or MBTI, the Enneagram goes deeper, offering insights that transform how leaders understand the motivational patterns for themselves and their teams.
In this engaging keynote, Susan demonstrates how leveraging cognitive diversity isn’t just a buzzword—it’s the key to innovation, collaboration, and results.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand the nine Enneagram types and how they influence leadership styles, including their own.
- Discover how understanding the roadblocks and superpowers of their teams boosts creativity and problem-solving.
- Learn actionable strategies to identify and bridge personality gaps for stronger team cohesion.
Resilience In Chaos: Lead With Clarity, Strength, And Calm
Enhance emotional intelligence, increase self-awareness, and cultivate resilience in the face of exponential change.
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In a world that demands constant agility, resilience isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s a leadership superpower. The most effective leaders know how to unlock ineffective patterns, think clearly under pressure, and turn challenges into opportunities.
As a certified HeartMath® trainer, Susan Drumm equips leaders with tools to enhance emotional intelligence, increase self-awareness, and build resilience.
Drawing on the latest research, she shares how leaders can access the highest functioning parts of their brains to make better decisions and inspire their teams—even in the most chaotic environments.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand how coherence and resilience improve decision-making and problem-solving.
- Learn techniques to manage stress and maintain emotional balance under pressure.
- Build a personal framework for cultivating resilience and empowering your team.
Effective Delegation: Freedom To Lead
Discover game-changing secrets to scale your business and leverage your team like a pro.
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The secret to scaling your business? It’s not about doing more—it’s about doing less. The best leaders know how to delegate effectively, freeing up their time for strategy, innovation, and growth.
With over two decades of experience advising top CEOs and senior executives, Susan Drumm has perfected the art of delegation and knows how to teach it. Based on her research of ineffective and effective delegators, she reveals the game-changing strategies elite leaders use to build high-performing teams and achieve exponential results.
Key Takeaways:
- Discover why delegation is the ultimate leadership skill for growth and efficiency.
- Learn a step-by-step process to identify tasks ripe for delegation.
- Master a foolproof framework to ensure delegated tasks are completed flawlessly.
“By blending a background in acting with top-tier business expertise, Susan engages an audience like few others can.”
Kaihan Krippendorf
Founder, Outthinker