Susan C. Ryan
For more than 30 years, Susan Ryan has partnered with business and government leaders utilizing her influence, strategic thinking, problem-solving skills, and human resources and communication savvy to help advance the objectives of various organizations across the country. As an entrepreneur herself, Susan understands the growth challenges new businesses face, especially in the areas of devising and executing organizational vision and strategy, human capital planning, and people alignment and performance.
Trust and results are at the center of Susan’s success with her clients.
With experience across start-ups and mature organizations, her areas of expertise include business growth and strategy, mergers and acquisitions, human resources consulting, organizational and cultural transformation, change management, public relations, marketing, branding, crisis communications, corporate communications, executive coaching, and DEI&B, among others. This experience crosses many different businesses and industries, which provides for a broad perspective of practices and solutions.
Susan has been invited as a guest speaker at numerous national professional associations including The Conference Board, Working Mother Magazine Workplace Diversity Conference, the California Institute of Technology Leadership Program, among others, on various management, human resources and media-related topics.
Susan has been a leader in founding three companies including NOVASPARK in 2023, Vera Causa Group, LLC in 2016 and SC Ryan Consulting, LLC in 2000. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Susan served as Vice President of Strategic Communications and Diversity for Monsanto, now Bayer. She helped lead the global communications function through mergers, acquisitions and a redesign of Monsanto’s overall business strategy and corporate culture. Susan has also held positions at two Viacom-owned television stations, including KMOV-TV in St. Louis.
Ms. Ryan graduated from Bradley University in Illinois with a double major in Journalism and Radio/Television. She lives in St. Louis County, Missouri with her husband and enjoys playing golf, laughing with friends and supervising her “pandemic puppy,” Birdie, who thinks she is the boss.