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Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

276: A CEO Advisor’s Low Tolerance for Suffering Keeps Her Focused on the Goal

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5618 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Susan Drumm was sure NBC television would be a good fit. She had a strong passion for drama, theater and entertainment, and solid consulting credentials. She quickly learned, "You may have the best process in the world, but if the culture doesn't accept it, you're dead in the water." Today she is a CEO advisor and leadership coach. For 20-plus years she’s been teaching companies like Viacom, Cisco, L’Oreal and KPMG to harness the power of leadership teams for multi-million-dollar growth. She has degrees from Harvard Law, Carnegie Mellon and a Master’s in Drama from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

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0:00.0

Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 276. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison. Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered

0:22.0

her talents to do work she loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

0:28.8

Susan was sure NBC television would be a good fit. She had a strong passion for drama,

0:35.4

theater, and entertainment, and solid consulting credentials.

0:39.3

She quickly learned, you may have the best process in the world, but if the culture doesn't

0:44.6

accept it, you're dead in the water. Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest,

0:49.4

Susan Drum. Welcome, Susan. Thank you. Happy to be here with you. Thank you. Susan, are you using your

0:55.6

talents doing work that you love? Yes, I am fortunate to say yes. Yes, yes. It is a great fortune,

1:02.0

isn't it? We want to hear all about it. Susan Drum is a CEO advisor and leadership coach for

1:07.2

executives, their teams, and entrepreneurs. She has spent two decades teaching companies

1:12.4

like Bi-Com, Cisco, L'Oreal, and KPMG how to harness the power of leadership to launch their

1:18.2

teams toward multi-million dollar growth. Now she brings her best tools and training to help

1:23.2

entrepreneurs do the same. Susan has degrees from Harvard Law, Carnegie Mellon, and a master's in

1:28.9

drama from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Susan, that's a summary of your career.

1:34.4

Tell our listeners around the world what you're working on now that has you engaged and

1:37.7

excited, if you will. Yes, well, I've got two businesses and they do similar things,

1:43.5

but they serve different markets.

1:45.1

Okay.

1:45.4

So the one business is Susan Drum.com, which is working with entrepreneurs to help them create

1:53.7

the kind of team that they need to scale and grow their business.

1:57.9

So I'm launching the Dream Team Academy, which is a six-week live

2:02.4

coaching course for a framework and a plan to build that and to help entrepreneurs with

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