“Susan Ford Collins is America’s Premier Success and Leadership Coach” - CNN

Susan Ford Collins works with founders and leaders, creators and innovators, startups and restarts. She supports business leaders in integrating their lives and careers, and making vital changes—expected and unexpected.

Susan maintains a busy Executive Coaching Practice, working with clients in person in Miami and worldwide by phone.

Susan Ford Collins is the founder and CEO of The Technology of Success, a training, consulting and coaching company that teaches the 10 skills she discovered Highly Successful People were using unconsciously but struggling to pass on, 10 skills that make leadership effective and fulfilling.

When individuals and teams learn how and when to use all 10 Success Skills, then productivity, creativity and collaboration rise to the next level. And profitability rises with it.

Are you using all 10 Success Skills, at the right time? Are all the members of your team, at work and at home?

Susan Ford Collins is the author of the Technology of Success Book Series which includes bestselling The Joy of Success, Success Has Gears, and Our Children Are Watching—the book business leaders begged her to write so the next generation will be fully prepared to succeed and lead when they enter the workplace and world.

Susan has facilitated more than 3,000 training programs in major corporations, educational, and governmental organizations including:

“I learned more from Susan in a matter of hours than from all the management, leadership and team-building trainings I’ve taken in 18 years. And it works in my personal life too.”

— Carl J. Flood, VP Worldwide Management, American Express

“Susan Ford Collins is a people genius.”

— Harriet Beinfield, coauthor, New York Times Bestseller Between Heaven and Earth

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What is The Technology of Success?

What makes some people more successful than others, more able to enjoy their lives and careers? And lead others to enjoy theirs?

Susan began her career as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health. She wondered what more they could learn if they studied Highly Successful People not just ill and dysfunctional ones. Her colleagues laughed initially, but Susan was on the verge of a major breakthrough.

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The Technology of Success Book Series

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Discover the ground-breaking books from Susan Ford Collins and The Technology of Success.

The Joy of Success teaches 10 vital Success Skills, based on Susan Ford Collins's two decades of research on the habits, behaviors, and mindsets of Highly Successful People. These are skills anyone can master and apply to transform their lives and the lives of those around them. These are the skills Susan teaches in major businesses and educational institutions around the world. And in her one-to-one Executive Coaching Sessions.

Are you missing, or misusing, any of these skills? How about the people around you, at work and at home? Are these books for them to read too?

While studying Highly Successful People, Susan Ford Collins discovered something all leaders need to know: Success and leadership have gears—three gear-like phases that must be shifted up and down like gears in a car.

Success Has Gears presents 20 case studies in which leaders and followers use the wrong gear at the wrong time... at great cost to themselves and their organizations. This book teaches you how to recognize when each gear is needed, and how to skillfully shift your thinking and behavior and your team's. Using the right Success and Leadership Gear—at the right time—will not only make you more effective and efficient but also more creative and innovative... more able to bring new ideas into reality and profitability.

Corporate clients begged Susan to write Our Children Are Watching for parents and teachers so our next generation will be ready to succeed and lead when they enter the workplace and world. So they will be prepared to confidently create and innovate.

Your children are watching! What are they learning... and not learning... from you about creating and living dreams? Your dreams? The most powerful way to prepare our next generation for success is to use these 10 skills ourselves... to model them day-by-day.

“One of Susan’s uplifting messages is ‘leadership is like a relay—parents run the first leg, then hand the baton on to educators, businesses and government. We are all leaders whether we realize it or not. We must learn to share skills to build a future together—a future we want.’”

— Communities in Schools: Helping Kids to Help Themselves

The Technology of Success Series: compact, concise and powerful—the perfect toolbox for redefining success in today’s “always-on” world.

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NEW! Be sure to listen to my NEW INTERVIEW WITH SUSAN SOLOVIC, bestselling author of The One Per Cent Edge!

Susan's photos featured in new book, Butterfly Gardening: The North American Butterfly Association Guide.

Shutterbug Magazine April 2018, SUCCESS STORY: The Rewards of Social Media Sharing, article about Susan Ford Collins's iPhone photography by Barry Tanenbaum

Cover quote for NYT best selling author Susan Solovic's new book, The One-Percent Edge: Small Changes That Guarantee Relevance and Build Sustainable Success

Coffee table book, Faces and Voices of Cuba... photographs by Dmitry Zhitov, words and layout by Susan Ford Collins, available in Books & Books locations

Booksigning Faces and Voices of Cuba at Books & Books in Coral Gables, Dmitry Zhitov and Susan Ford Collins, June 2, 2017

Booksigning Faces and Voices of Cuba at Art & Design Gallery in Miami, Dmitry Zhitov and Susan Ford Collins, May 18, 2017

Speaker The Strategic Forum Miami and NY Connect 2017, May 6, 2107 Mohonk Mountain House New Paltz NY

FIU PowerUp Women's Leadership Summit keynote April 20, 2017, Success and Leadership Have Gears!

Training Magazine: The Greatest Challenge Trainers and Leaders Face: Shifting Gears by Susan Ford Collins

American Management Association: Are You Sending Successful Employees to Competitors? by Susan Ford Collins

American Management Association: Why Do We Do What We’re Told Not to Do? by Susan Ford Collins

CEO Magazine: Brain Tips That Will Make You A More Powerful CEO by Susan Ford Collins

Forbes/Leadership: Five Misconceptions Even Smart People Have About Success by Susan Ford Collins

Costco Connection: Success Steps: Are You Using All 10 Success Skills? Take the Quiz to Find Out by Susan Ford Collins

Caroline Dowd-Higgins interviews Susan Ford Collins: We're Stuck in a Success Crisis and It's Affecting Our Kids! (Audio)

Caroline Dowd-Higgins interviews Susan Ford Collins: Why Most People Can't Think Outside of the Box (Audio)

Thrive Magazine: 7 Things Highly Successful People Do You Might Not Be Doing by Susan Ford Collins

The Glass Hammer: Working hard? How is the teamwork at home? by Susan Ford Collins

McAlister & Payne Digital Magazine for 21st C Executives: 7 Things Highly Successful People Do That You Might Not Be Doing

Successful Meetings Magazine: How leadership is like driving a stick shift Gearing Up for Success by Susan Ford Collins

FIU PowerUp Women's Leadership Summit 2016: Talk: The 10 Success Skills: Are You Using All 10? How About Your Team? plus panel with top women business leaders. Intros start 07:31, vision 30:25 to 37:20, mentoring 52:38 to 54:37, passion 01:11:54 to 01:14:20 (Video)

Fayette Woman: 10 things highly successful people do by Susan Ford Collins

WorkingMomsAgainstGuilt: The Workplace Squeeze by Susan Ford Collins

Upstart Business Journal: Why Most People Can’t Think "Outside the Box" and text version by Susan Ford Collins

Web.com Small Business Forum: 3 Books Small Business Owners Should Read by Susan Ford Collins

In Business Magazine: We’re Stuck in a Success Crisis by Susan Ford Collins

BBC Capital: Returning to your first career isn't as hard as you'd think by Susan Ford Collins

Advancing Women: Are Your Instructions Creating Your Employees’ Problems? by Susan Ford Collins

National Parkinson Report...Success, Hologramming and Health: New Approaches by Susan Ford Collins

Ft. Lauderdale Business News: Success Quiz: Are You Using All 10 Success Skills… At the Right Time? by Susan Ford Collins

The Stewardship Report: Ten Things Highly Successful People Do That You Might Not Be Doing by Susan Ford Collins

Sun Sentinel: Here's how workers can avoid being overwhelmed by information by Susan Ford Collins

WRNW1: Radio Interview with Bridget Grayson (Audio) Susan Ford Collins