Susan P Bari
President, The Susan Bari Company
Secretary/Treasurer, Board of Directors

Susan Phillips Bari brings to the Leader to Leader Institute the knowledge and firsthand experience gained in a diverse career providing her leadership talents, and skill as a manager and marketer in the public, nonprofit and entrepreneurial sectors.

• President of The Susan Bari Company: Imagine, Plan, Execute which provided business development coaching, customer acquisition strategies and supplier diversity consulting services to corporations, nonprofit organizations and entrepreneurs.
• President Emeritus, Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the leading advocate for the advancement of women owned businesses as vendors and suppliers to the nation's corporations.
• Author, Breaking Through: Creating Opportunities for Women and Minority Owned Businesses, 2004, 2nd edition 2006; Partnering for Profit: Success Strategies for Tomorrow's Supply Chain, 2005; and Yes! I Can Do That, 2007.
• Columnist, Enterprising Women magazine, MBE magazine.
• Federal government service:
  o Associate Director of the Office of Presidential Personnel in The White House
  o Chair, President's Committee on Women Business Enterprise
  o Director, Institute of Museum Services
  o Director, Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs, U.S. Department of Education

BOARDS

• 1994-present: Business Advisory Council, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech
• 1998-2002: Member, Board of Visitors of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 1998-2000: Director, Neutral Posture Ergonomics (Audit Committee, Going Private Committee)
• 1999-2006 Member, National Women's Advisory Council, advisors to the President, Congress and . the SBA
• 2000-present: Member, Board of Directors of the Women Presidents' Organization (Treasurer, Audit . Committee, Compensation Committee
• 2002-present: Member, Advisory Council, Enterprising Women magazine
• 2002-2004, Member, Advisory Council, WorkLife Matters magazine
• 2002-2006: Member, Women's Leadership Board of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, . Harvard College
  

AWARDS

• 2007 WBENC, Standing Ovation Award
• 2005 Billion Dollar Roundtable, Impact Award
• 2004 WPEO, Advocate of the Year
• 2003 Women's Business Development Center, Chicago, Advocate of the Year
• 2002 Enterprising Women Hall of Fame, Inductee
• 2002 WBENC, Applause Award
• 1994 SBA, Small Business Advocate of the Year, Washington, DC Region

GLOBAL BUSINESS

• Member, U.S. Delegation to Helsinki Accords Meeting on the Continuation of Culture held in Budapest, Hungary.
• Member, delegation of women leaders to Israel and Greece to discuss impact of legislation and regulation on women and work.
• Member, U.S. Delegation of Women in the Building Trades to China and Hong Kong (sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development).
• Committee, John Manjiro Society exchange program, Tokyo, Japan.
• Expert Consultant, Atlantic Council of the US "China 2010" project focusing on the role of women in the growing capitalist culture in China and participated in their meetings in Beijing and Taiwan.
• Speaker, OECD sponsored conference for women entrepreneurs from Eastern Europe held in Croatia on the island of Brioni.
• Presenter, OECD Paris meetings on women entrepreneurs.
• Workshop Leader, OECD Paris meetings on Women Entrepreneurs.
• Member, US Delegation to OECD's Ministerial Meeting on SMEs in Istanbul, Turkey.
• Advisor, The Migration Project (of the EU) on the establishment of pilot supplier diversity initiatives in EU countries.
• Member, International Committee, Business Advisory Council of the Pamplin College of Business (Virginia Tech).
• Editor, "Globalization: from the Inside Out" authored by Kent Brittan, former CEO of United Technologies International and which included the participation of Mike Eskew (CEO, UPS), Robert Moffat (Senior Vice President, Integrated Operations, IBM) and Keith Nosbusch (CEO, Rockwell Automation).

EDUCATION
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, MBA, 1985
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, BA (English), 1967
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard College; Certificate, Program for Senior Managers in Government, 1985