Susan
B. Hitchcock -
Vice President
& Executive Director of Women's Initiatives
Susan Hitchcock joined the
Turknett Leadership Group in 1992. In addition to her client
services role, she was named executive director of Turknett's women's
initiatives in 2003 and created the Women in Leadership Seminar
Series. Susan is also involved in research, writing, and speaking
on the subject of women and leadership.
Before joining Turknett,
Susan completed a 24-year career with BellSouth Corporation where
she held a variety of leadership positions. She was the first female
line district manager in Network Operations. Her career spanned
a broad range of line and staff functions including switching operations,
center implementation, human resource planning, management assessment,
technical training and executive support.
At the executive level, Susan
specialized in internal and external communications. Reporting directly
to the Network EVP, she participated in over a hundred major
presentations in local, national and international forums.
She also provided management support services across a nine state
region covering 35,000 employees. These services included succession
planning, leadership development, as well as staffing decisions
at all levels.
A native of Franklin, Kentucky,
Susan graduated with honor from Agnes Scott College in Decatur,
GA with a B.A. in Psychology. In 1990, she completed the Executive
Development Program at Boston University's Leadership Institute.
As a community volunteer, Susan has served as an adult literacy
tutor, a teen mentor, a help line counselor, a fundraiser, and a
member of the Governor's Committee on Post-Secondary Education.
Supporting women's leadership, Susan has served on the board of
the Georgia Executive Women's Network (GEWN) - chairing the committee
that launched the “Leader of Tomorrow Scholarship Program.” In
1997 she received GEWN's Founder's Award for her contributions to
the organization. Currently, Susan is an active member of the Board
of Directors' Network and serves on the board of the Atlanta Women's
Network (AWN) and the Possible Woman Foundation International (PWFI).
She chairs AWN's Mentoring Initiative and is on the Scholarship
Committee of PWFI.
A special passion of Susan's
is her “Age of SHEroes” project - a research and resource initiative
dedicated to female achievers. She has interviewed dozens of women
from a variety of backgrounds - inspirational role models from A
to Z – and has recorded their life and career stories along with
their leadership insights. Some of these profiles are available
at www.turknett.com/sectionR/women.html . Susan's other passion
is being “Xanna” to four spirited grandchildren, 3 girls and a boy. |
