Clinical Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Co-Founder/Executive Chair of Bonfire Women, Inc

Chicago, IL, USA

Suzanne Muchin Biography

Suzanne Muchin is an award-winning Clinical Professor in Kellogg’s Leadership Development Communications (LDEV), where she teaches Selling Yourself and Your Ideas, and Women’s Leadership Seminar. She is a featured lecturer in New Venture and entrepreneurship courses at Kellogg. She and Professor Craig Wortmann also offer the Life Hacks workshop, and Suzanne (Kellogg's most outspoken introvert) also offers her workshop on Selling Yourself: Introverts Edition.

Outside of Kellogg, she co-founded Bonfire, a talent development accelerator for the rising generation of women in the workplace. With her long-time business partner (and Bonfire co-founder), Rachel Bellow, Suzanne is also the host of the popular podcast on work and your life: The Bonfire Podcast.

Before launching Bonfire, Suzanne was a founding partner and lead strategist of Mind + Matter Studio, and a founder of Frequency540, a strategic communications agency that acquired her first brand strategy firm, ROI Ventures (Return on Inspiration). With Rachel, Suzanne launched and developed ROI Ventures’ incubator (Return on Inspiration Labs, LLC) and its media arm (ROI Distributed, LLC). She was inducted into the Chicago Entrepreneur Hall of Fame for these ventures.

A graduate of Tufts University, Suzanne began her career as a Charter Corps member of Teach For America and taught eighth-grade Spanish in the South Bronx. She then spent four years on the National Staff of TFA as the Vice President for Programs, overseeing recruitment, selection, training, and support for all corps members. It was during her time at TFA that Suzanne began focusing on the need for high-quality early childhood programs, particularly in the most vulnerable communities. As a result, she became the CEO of Civitas, a communication agency for the early childhood field founded by Harpo Entertainment's CEO. She spent 11 years in that position, during which Civitas launched large-scale, national communication campaigns that included Begin with Love, Born Learning, What Grown-Ups Understand about Young Children, and other efforts. She also co-authored the book Understanding Children with TED founder Richard Saul Wurman.

Suzanne is an investor in impact companies, a mentor to entrepreneurs at 1871 and TechStars, and an LP and Advisory Board member for MATH Venture Partners. She is a Wexner Heritage Member, and on the Board of Directors of the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (1871), and Uniting Voices (formerly Chicago Children's Choir). She has served as an Independent Director at Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), and is currently an Independent Director of Fooda. In 2022, Suzanne and her husband were awarded the Human Rights Medallion by the American Jewish Congress.

In her free time, Suzanne can be found somewhere on the Chicago lakefront path, as she is a long-time marathon runner, having run nine full marathons and four half marathons over the years. That activity started as a stress-reducing strategy for raising five (now college-age and adult) children and one rescue dog.

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Suzanne Muchin Speaking Topics

  • HOW LEADERS DRIVE THЕ CONVERSATION

    Gain a new approach to identifying and delivering your unique perspective and inviting constructive conversations. You will learn to shift away from simply delivering opinions and instead engage others by framing a high stakes point of view. The result will be a communication approach that will help you be more distinctive, memorable, effective and engaging in every room.

  • HOW WOMEN CAN MATTER MORE

    Matter More is a discussion of a theory of change for women to achieve success on their terms. The session covers three topics (each with corresponding frameworks and strategies) that, no matter where you are in your professional trajectory, can be utilized to improve the way you show up, stand out and break through by connecting to ideas and conversations that are bigger than you.

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Suzanne Muchin Videos

Suzanne Muchin | Co-Founder & CEO, Bonfire - YouTube

Suzanne Muchin | Co-Founder & CEO, Bonfire - YouTube

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Suzanne Muchin: Your Success Depends on a Point Point of View ...

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28 | Interview with Suzanne Muchin

28 | Interview with Suzanne Muchin

In today's episode of The Hero of the Hour podcast Mark Murphy has an insightful conversation with Suzanne Muchin a dynamic figure in the ...

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Suzanne Muchin is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as HOW LEADERS DRIVE THЕ CONVERSATION, HOW WOMEN CAN MATTER MORE, DESIGNING AN ALL RISE APPROACH TO THE WORKPLACE OF THE FUTURE, USING OUR VOICES FOR IMPACT & INFLUENCE and SUPER COMMUNICATION. The estimated speaking fee range to book Suzanne Muchin for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Suzanne Muchin generally travels from Chicago, IL, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Sara Blakely, Jennifer Borrero, Natalie Kyriacou OAM, Angelica Malin and Jasmine Crowe-Houston. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Suzanne Muchin for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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