Susan Sommers

Susan Sommers is an award-winning journalist, speaker and trainer, marketing consultant, educator, and coach with over twenty-five years of experience in business communications. She is one of Canada's leading experts in marketing and media relations consulting and training.

Susan was born and raised in New Jersey and earned a Masters Degree from Columbia University, a Bachelor of Science Degree from Syracuse University and a Public Relations Certificate from the University of Toronto.

In 1982, Susan founded her own agency, susan sommers + associates, where has developed strategic communications plans, special events, publicity campaigns, promotional materials, and new identity programs for a variety of for profit and non-profit clients.

For over a decade, Susan has designed and delivered hundreds of workshops, presentations, and in-house training programs to corporations, retailers, small business owners, sales professionals, associations, non-profits and government agencies.

Susan has developed credit courses in Marketing and Media Relations for the Ontario College of Art & Design, University of Toronto, University of Western Ontario, Schulich School of Business at York University. She currently teaches at the Schulich School of Business at York University and the University of Toronto.

As a journalist and author, Susan has written weekly columns for The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star and feature articles for Toronto Life Magazine, Flare Magazine, and pr canada's Internet newsletter. She is the author of Handmade in Ontario, published by Van Nostrand Reinhold in 1976. She is also the author of a new book on Canadian media, Building Media Relationships., published by Irwin Publishing in 2002.