Sue has been invited to speak extensively throughout the United States and Canada, by seminar groups, at conferences, and to medical staffs, also presenting keynotes, breakout sessions and workshops on stress management and wellness, nutrition, and handling interpersonal conflict effectively. She is known for her humor and interactive style. Her goals are always for participants to learn practical new skills that they can walk away from her presentation and put to use immediately to improve their lives. Developing and motivating self-management behaviors are at the heart of Sue’s messages. She connects effectively with her audiences, helping them understand and overcome the blocks we all have to creating the lives we want. And, Sue makes sure that everyone has a great time while learning.

A health care educator, one of Sue’s special interests are persons with chronic or progressive disease such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s, their caregivers and families, to whom she has delivered keynotes and presentations on stress management and on nutrition. She consults for family businesses with respect to family member counseling and communication, stress and conflict in relationships. Sue is a clinician for the Baltimore Ravens football team and conducts workshops for the team as required by the NFL.

Sue earned her undergraduate degree in Nursing at the University of Massachusetts and her Master’s in Nursing in Seattle, Washington. Upon moving to Baltimore in 1993, she earned two Post-Master’s Nurse Practitioner Degrees. Sue earned a program certificate from Georgetown University’s Center for Mind-Body Medicine in "Food as Medicine: Integrating Nutrition In Medical Education and Clinical Practice". Her professional experience also includes nursing intervention and management with respect to substance abuse, eating disorders, crisis assessment and medication management, and diabetes education program development on a national level.