Executive Coach · Bestselling Author · Vistage Worldwide Master Chair · Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Certified Coach
See the invisible. Do the impossible.
“Susan Motkaluk blends the wisdom of nature with the lessons of resilience, guiding readers to find balance, meaning, and renewal in every stage of their personal and professional lives. With grace and grounded insight, she reminds us that growth isn't a race, it's a cycle. This book is a compass for anyone seeking to live and lead with purpose, clarity, and heart.”
In the room
Inspire and Connect, Tapestry Hall, Cambridge.
Her story
Raised in an impoverished farming family in rural Manitoba, Susan learned early that limitations are often inherited before they are examined.
Her career carried her through civil engineering and public leadership—from the City of Waterloo and OMAFRA to Deputy CAO of Wood Buffalo, CAO of Swift Current and CEO of Southbridge Development Corporation.
Today, she works with CEOs and senior leaders who want better results without surrendering the people, principles or life that make those results matter.
Read Susan’s full storyA framework for whole leadership
Leadership is not a permanent summer. Each season asks a different question.
Beginnings
What is ready to start?
Growth
What will sustain momentum?
Harvest
What is ready to be released?
Renewal
What foundations need rebuilding?
Susan starts by breaking a problem down to what is actually true, stripping away inherited assumptions and industry habit. Only then does she rebuild. It is how the Seasons of Soul framework was built, and it is how she works with every leader.
Twenty five years running cities, utilities and companies. Susan has faced real world problems head on and solved problems most people cannot. She coaches from experience, not theory.
Susan has built a network across North America over three decades, and she opens it. Introductions, peers, expertise, and the person who has already solved the thing you are facing.
No distance, no performance. Leaders talk to Susan the way they cannot talk to their own board.
“Not only are circles themselves inherently balanced and equal, but within a circle, we are all equal.”
It is lonely at the top. Susan’s work is built on circle building, bringing powerful peers together so that leaders stop carrying it alone. Uniting people, connecting them, and turning a room of individuals into a circle where everyone is equal and everyone contributes.
With Susan, that loneliness melts away.
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Inspire and Connect Series
Monday November 9, 2026 · Guelph, Ontario
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Early bird pricing ends October 9.
The bestselling book
“This book is a compass for anyone seeking to live and lead with purpose, clarity, and heart.”
A leadership book about reconnecting our work, families and communities—and recognizing the season we are actually in.
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A 53-page practical companion bridging First Principles Thinking with the Seasons of Soul framework.
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A working companion that bridges First Principles Thinking with the Seasons framework.
