FAQs
- What does Susanne Le Boutillier do?
Susanne is a strategic facilitator, keynote speaker and trusted executive advisor who works with leaders, executive teams and boards navigating high-stakes change, complexity and pressure. She also designs and runs leadership development programs that build that capability in senior leaders over time. She works with organisations affected by heavy regulation, complex funding and public accountability so they can read what's really going on, make sound decisions, and keep moving when conditions won't hold still.
- Who does Susanne work with?
Senior leaders, executive teams and boards, particularly in regulated and high-accountability sectors such as health, government, financial services, insurance and the not-for-profit sector. Her work travels across any environment where the stakes are high and the ground keeps shifting.
- What's the difference between hiring Susanne to speak versus facilitate or run a program?
A keynote is Susanne on stage, giving a whole audience a new way to lead through pressure and change. Facilitation is Susanne in the room with your board or team, working through issues with you live. A leadership development program builds the capability in your leaders to handle those issues themselves, over time rather than in a single session. Many clients hear her speak first, then come back for a program for their leaders.
- Is Susanne available for keynotes outside Queensland, and online?
Yes. Susanne speaks nationally and internationally, in person and online, and tailors each keynote to the event theme, audience and sector.
- What is the Convergence Trap?
It's Susanne's strategic field guide for leaders facing several pressures at once, where the mistake is managing each one separately when it's the cumulative impact that catches you out.
- What makes Susanne different from other facilitators or strategists?
Many facilitators stay neutral and stick to their plan no matter what. Susanne reads the room, adapts inside it, and looks for the opening others haven't seen yet. She takes a clear view and works from deep experience leading change inside complex, regulated systems, so you're not spending the first three meetings bringing her up to speed.
There was nothing too difficult and Susanne was willing and able to adapt quickly to changes especially those that were required on the run.
Eliza Erickson, Director, Office of Health Statutory Agencies, Queensland Health
Find your way through.
If the complexity in your organisation isn't going anywhere, and you have less certainty than you'd like, that's ground Susanne has worked for thirty years.
Start with a conversation to find your team's way through.
