About SkyLimit Leadership

Strengths-based.

With over 50 years of training and leadership experience and more than 500 hours of leadership and strengths-based coaching experience, SkyLimit Leadership helps you create a strengths-based culture that leads to a more effective, engaged team and greater profitability.

We are passionate about creating organizations in which every leader understands his or her strengths and is able to help others do the same. Research shows that this understanding increases employee engagement, effectiveness, and profitability.

Additionally, research proves that people who use their strengths every day are six times as likely to be engaged in their jobs and are three times happier in life overall. That all begins with leadership - SkyLimit Leadership.

Tailored to you.

Every organization, team, and individual is unique—and so is the path to meaningful growth. That’s why all of SkyLimit’s consulting, facilitation, and coaching services are thoughtfully tailored to meet the distinct goals, challenges, and cultures of those we serve.

Drawing on decades of real-world experience across federal agencies and public safety organizations—as well as a wealth of training from respected institutions like Gallup, the International Coaching Federation, The Flourishing Center, Myers-Briggs Company, Franklin Covey, and the John Maxwell Leadership Program—SkyLimit brings both depth and flexibility to every engagement. This diverse toolkit allows us to meet clients exactly where they are and help them move forward with confidence and clarity.

Founder + CEO

Strategic | Futuristic | Ideation | Input | Relator (obvi these would be yours not mine)

As the founder of SkyLimit Leadership, Susan works with agencies and leaders to improve employee engagement, productivity, and profitability through strengths-based leadership training and coaching. With extensive federal experience, she is also an ontologically trained coach and is a credentialed member of the International Coach Federation. Susan is also a certified coach, speaker, and facilitator through The John Maxwell Group.

Susan has over 26 years of facilitation experience with local, state and federal government agencies. Prior to her federal service and founding SkyLimit Leadership, she was the deputy director of the NC Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Division. Additionally, she served for 10 years as the Director of Public Safety Training at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC where she was the school director for Basic Law Enforcement Training, General Instructor Training, and several Speed Measurement Instrument certification courses.

Furthermore, she served as an Intensive Probation/Parole Officer with the NC Department of Correction, Supervising Outreach Coordinator for the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, Chief of the FCC’s Consumer Affairs and Outreach Division, and most recently as an executive coach and training facilitator in the FCC’s Learning Development and Service Center. Her work with SkyLimit Coaching is separate and apart from her role at the FCC.

Client Experience

Susan has delivered Strengths-based leadership training to the Mecklenburg County (NC) Sheriff’s Office Command Staff and Detention Sergeants. She also regularly facilitates Strengths-based leadership training for the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials’ (APCO) Certified Public-Safety Executive Program.

Additionally, she has administered, debriefed and conducted training on MBTI, StrengthsFinder, and 360 evaluations. Susan also has delivered more than 500 coaching hours which have been focused on leadership, career advancement, strengths, and conflict resolution.