Susan Lucia Annunzio

Susan Lucia Annunzio is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Center for High Performance (CfHP). She is a strategic advisor to CEOs of leading global companies on strategy attainment and business transformation. Susan partners with senior executives to increase their ability to simplify complex strategic decisions through enhanced collaboration and creativity. She is a globally recognized speaker and thought leader on shaping and maintaining high-performance business environments. She has a strong track record helping leaders maximize returns on strategic, financial and human-capital investments.

Previously, Susan ran the research-based high performance consulting subsidiary of Hudson Highland Group, Inc., a leading international professional staffing and talent management solutions firm. Under her direction, Hudson Highland completed the most comprehensive global study of knowledge workers ever conducted regarding the factors that accelerate or stifle high performance.

Susan has presented on this study at such prestigious venues as the World Economic Forum, The International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change at the University of Greenwich, and Vacature's 2004 "Talent Economy" launch event in Belgium.

Susan is a former Adjunct Professor of Management at the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business, where she still teaches the most popular Executive Education Program, High Performance Leadership. She has been a guest lecturer at INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau, France, Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Instituto Empressa in Madrid. She also has taught at General Electric's Crotonville Corporate Training Center.

She is the author of Contagious Success (Portfolio, 2004), a dynamic management book that revealed a global standard for high performance. Contagious Success was voted Fast Company's Readers' Choice selection in January 2005. Additionally, Susan authored two more prominent business books: Communicoding (Fine, 1990; Penguin USA, 1991) and Evolutionary Leadership
(Simon & Schuster, 2001; Fireside, 2002).

She has been a guest on numerous local, national and international television and radio news programs and has been quoted extensively in the business press, including The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, BBC, USA Today and Bloomberg. She is a regular guest on Ameritrade's Morning Trade Live.

Susan is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago where she has served as the Chairman of the Membership Committee for Professional Service Firms and on the Questions Committee. She is also a member of the President's Circle of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Executives' Club of Chicago and the University of Chicago Women's Business Group. She sits on the Advisory
Board of Metropolitan Bank.