• Susan Lindner

Susan Lindner is the Founder and CEO of Innovation Storytellers, a leading innovation storytelling consulting firm. She is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, workshop leader, messaging strategist, storytelling coach, and the world’s leading expert on innovation storytelling.

Susan draws from her initial experiences as an anthropologist and international aid worker in rural Thailand in the 1990s, where she shared stories that helped at-risk populations disproportionately affected by AIDS to slow the virus’ spread. Today, as a 20-year communications expert, she is committed to using those same storytelling skills to inspire innovation leaders everywhere to become incredible storytellers and ensure that their innovations get the resources, runway, and recognition they deserve.

Susan is the host of Innovation Storytellers, a weekly podcast that takes the mystery out of how to communicate breakthrough ideas to the people who matter most. Every week, Susan interviews top global innovation leaders from companies like Amazon, Bloomberg, Cisco, Corning, and Tesla about the stories that moved their innovations past the boardroom, lab, and production line and into our everyday lives.

Susan speaks at global conferences, consulates, and trade organizations. She has worked with C-level leaders and teams from over 60 countries at Fortune 100 companies like GE, Corning, Citi, AT&T, Arm & Hammer on their innovation storytelling strategies. The result? Those innovation leaders become incredible storytellers who go on to change the world. Susan is driven to ensure every breakthrough idea reaches its finish line through powerful stories that connect to every listener and power that brilliant idea forward.

Consultant

Helping increase the communications capacity of innovators and scientists in Serbia.

Super Skill: Why Storytelling Is the Superpower of the AI Age

Susan Lindner

2022 Watch List: Women in Innovation
Women in Innovation is made up of 26 women who are making an impact both inside and outside the organization, in large corporations and small startups. These are the innovation thought leaders shaping business growth through research and publications, as well as women working with the biggest corporations and the fastest startups on the planet.

2022 Women to Watch in Innovation

Judge - Harvard Innovation Labs President's Challenge

Hosted a lively panel discussion of top NYC tech entrepreneurs entitled, "What Do Entrepreneurs Fear"

Moderator

Finalist - For Advantages Marketing Agency - EM helped Advantages win 15 awards in 6 months for its incredible design and branding work.

The Business Intelligence Group was founded with the mission of recognizing true talent and superior performance in the business world. Unlike other industry and business award programs, business executives—those with experience and knowledge—judge the programs. The organization’s proprietary and unique scoring system selectively measures performance across multiple business domains and then rewards those companies whose achievements stand above those of their peers.

PR & Marketing Excellence

Emerging Media achieved an impressive 98% ranking us among the best in the country at promoting, position and garnering press coverage and social media support for media and wireless companies. Recently Emerging Media has worked with mobile firms, including: 
StearClear, an app-based designated driver service that gets you and your car home safely
Echolocation, a hyper-local, micro-blogging app that connects users to highly relevant content based upon their location
TargetSpot: the largest Internet and mobile radio advertising network
WebNMS: the leading provider of wireless and mobile infrastructure software serving the top telecom companies in the world.

Best in PR: Top 10 US Agencies in Mobile & Wireless

Techweek, the nation’s leading technology conference and festival, gathers industry heavyweights and emerging tech voices to showcase local innovation at 6 emerging hubs. Techweek is "a must-attend tech conference" - The Next Web

LAUNCH Championship Judge

The Mashies is an annual awards program showcasing outstanding digital work in marketing, advertising and social, created and produced by Mashable.com.

Semi-Final Round Judge

From Thought Leadership to Acquisition – Liazon’s Path to Success with Emerging Media

Best B2B Campaign of the Year-Bronze

Best Media Coverage Campaign of the Year - Gold

The Brava! Awards program celebrates female CEOs who combine their irrepressible entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for giving back to the community. Brava! Award winners are exemplary leaders of both their companies and their communities. They encourage local philanthropy, mentor up-and-coming leaders and set their companies on the path to tremendous growth. Each year, an independent committee of local business leaders selects winners based on the quality of applications submitted. SmartCEO shares their inspiring stories in the September/October 2014 issue of SmartCEO magazine and celebrates their success at an awards reception in September.

Brava Awards

Emerging Media bested top communicators like Ogilvy and Hilton Hotels to win this year's award. Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring best companies in every major industry from large to small and new start-ups in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America, Best New Products and Services, Best Innovations, Management and Teams, Women in Business and the Professions, Case Studies, Customer Satisfaction, and PR and Marketing Campaigns from all over the world. 


2012 Launch Campaign of the Year

For our client Toddy Gear, Emerging Media created a ground-breaking launch campaign rooted in traditional PR and coupled with an exceptional digital component and launch event at the Consumer Electronics Show. Within 6 months of launch, Toddy Gear products were being sold at Target.com, and Target Stores, Radio Shack, Staples, Verizon Wireless, and many more. 

PR News' Digital PR Awards is the industry's top honor in the PR/communications digital space, recognizing outstanding digital initiatives among corporations, agencies and nonprofits. The coveted awards set the industry benchmark for excellence across all areas of digital PR. The winners of the Digital PR Awards are those organizations that took chances, made tremendous strides and understand the power of digital communications in public relations.

Honorable Mention, Digital Marketing Campaign of the Year– $100K - $200K

Toddy Gear Microfiber Cloths- The Dirty Sexy Gadget Launch Campaign

Finalist: Communications or PR Campaign of the Year - Marketing - Consumer Products

Award for best branding and positioning for PokerStars' online and print PR campaigns in the US and Canada.

Best Branding & Positioning

German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New York

DWIH New York Speaker

eSpeakers

eSpeakers Certified Virtual Presenter

National Speakers Association

Professional Speaker

Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses

WBENC

Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC): Certified Woman-Owned Business

Goldman Sachs 10000 Small Businesses

Dickinson College

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Universidad de Costa Rica UCR

Suffern Senior High School

Harvard Innovation Labs

English

German

Spanish

Thai

Women in Climatetech & Sustainability

Innovation Women

Women in Innovation

Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO)

Innovation Storytellers

At Innovation Storytellers, we’re experts at training your top talent to present their innovative ideas in a way that shifts mindsets and norms. 

Our Innovation Storytelling method helps leaders inspire confidence by communicating a shared vision, engineering empathy across difference, and creating collective understanding.

With a flexible approach to consulting, teaching, and facilitation, our goal is to always ensure impactful outcomes.

Visit https://innovationstorytellers.com to learn more.

CEO | Innovation Storyteller | Global Keynote Speaker

The World Bank

German Accelerator U.S.

The German Accelerator supports German tech startups to accelerate their business and to enter the U.S. market. As a mentor, speaker and workshop leader, I help innovative companies with their messaging, positioning, storytelling and marketing challenges.

Workshop Instructor & Mentor

Innovation Norway

Innovation Norway is the Norwegian Government's most important instrument for innovation and development of Norwegian enterprises and industry. I support companies in developing their competitive advantage in breaking into the US market and to enhance their messaging, storytelling and public relations efforts to win business and grow rapidly.

Workshop Leader and Mentor

Emerging Media: An Innovation Communications Consultancy

Emerging Media is an award-winning PR, Marketing and Branding agency that helps innovators and entrepreneurial leaders get the resources, runway, and recognition they deserve. With our trademarked Innovation Storytelling™ methodology, Emerging Media offers keynotes, workshops, consulting and 1:1 coaching to transform innovators into thought leaders. Emerging Media helps technical leaders articulate and differentiate their messaging from the crowd and get their innovations, the traction they need to reach their full potential. As a three-time Golden Bridge Award winner for Best Consumer Launch, BtoB Campaign, and Media Coverage Campaign of the Year, we've also been ranked Best in Mobile & Wireless. Visit www.emergingmediapr.com and follow us on Twitter @emergingmediapr.

CEO and Founder

GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group)

I consult with companies on cutting edge branding, PR, marketing and social media strategies for innovative and disruptive companies.

Council Member

VentureOut

VentureOut supports top technology companies from around the world on their mission to access new markets, raise capital, and scale. Through invite-only programs organized monthly in New York City and San Francisco, its programs are focused on providing promising founders with the knowledge, connections and opportunities they need to succeed in the world's top tech communities. Each year, VONY helps hundreds of tech companies launch into new markets, close big deals with top prospects, and raise millions of dollars from top venture investors in New York City and San Francisco.

Mentor & Speaker

Lotus Public Relations Inc

We specialize in creating targeted and innovative communication strategies for clients ranging from start-ups to publicly traded brand leaders.

Truly effective PR builds brands, generates awareness and shapes agendas to put your company and your message in the minds of the audiences you are trying to reach.

President & Founder

NYPR

Ran the Agency's largest accounts including: Akamai Technologies (AKAM), BP, Battery Ventures, National City Corp., Jerusalem Venture Partners. Managed all media & analyst relations, thought leadership campaigns, awards, speaking opportunities and content campaigns.

Account Supervisor

Centers for Disease Control

Conducted national AIDS research study on variant and resistant strains of HIV among newly infected immigrants and US citizens through NYC hospitals, STD and TB clinics. Interviewed patients, drew blood, collected, analyzed and reported data to the NYC Dept. of Health and CDC. With national study teams, identified new and resistant strains of the HIV virus entering the US.

Epidemiologist

Global Keynote Speaker | Host, "The Innovation Storytellers Show"

We help innovation leaders become amazing storytellers to get the resources, runway and recognition they deserve.

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Gallup’s State of the Workplace reveals that 66% of the US workforce feels disengaged and 75% of this group are actively looking for new jobs, while on the job. How can leaders retain top talent in the midst of intense disruption, innovation, and even layoffs and market fluctuations? Stories. Employees need to
feel connected to a higher purpose beyond the 9-5 and leaders must offer that larger cause to inspire, not just manage, their teams.

Strategic storytelling to engage talent | TNW Conference 2018

Speaking to 200,000 attendees at CeBit 2017 #Scale11

BelCham Executive Women's Forum

Gave the opening keynote address at InfoShare 2016 in Gdansk, Poland to more than 5000 attendees at Central Europe's largest technology conference.

Storytelling for Disruptors & Innovators, InfoShare 2016

ILO Institute

BlackNSA (National Speakers Association)

Black National Speakers Association (BNSA) is dedicated to helping professional speakers of color to access more stages to grow their businesses, improve their public speaking capabilities, and create a community where speakers can learn and grow.

Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

Started

Support edtech startups with their messaging, positioning, and storytelling to reach the largest markets and brands in education publishing and services.

Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

The mission of The Tricycle Foundation is to create forums for exploring contemporary and historic Buddhist activity, examine the impact of its new context in the democratic traditions of the West, and introduce fresh views and attainable methods for enlightened living to the culture at large. At the core of the Foundation’s mission is the alleviation of suffering that Buddhist teachings are meant bring about. 


G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance

I have served as a US Delegate at the G20 Summits in France, Mexico and Moscow.

The G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance (G20 YEA) is a global network of young entrepreneurs and the organisations that support them. It was established to convene each year in advance of the G-20 Summit, with the aim of championing the importance of young entrepreneurs to the G20 member nations and to share examples and practices. The Alliance was officially created at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Summit, Toronto, Canada, 2010. 

Entrepreneurs'​ Organization

Manage and direct roughly 20 Communications Chairs in EO, disseminating global initiatives to roughly 2000 members on the East Coast. Collect and share local communications ideas and challenges with Global Board members. Drove media partnerships with Upstart.com and AmCity Business Journals.

Spearheaded Media Subcommittee to create first ever alliances and new advertising, content and event relationships with national business and entrepreneurial media outlets on behalf of EO, including Inc. Magazine, Fortune Magazine, MTV, New York Times, and others.

Identified, selected and built philanthropy program to create avenues for volunteerism and fundraising for the Workshop in Business Opportunities (WIBO). Founded in 1966 in Harlem, WIBO’s mission is to enable small business owners and budding entrepreneurs from underserved communities to obtain financial success by starting, operating, and building successful businesses that develop economic power, provide jobs and improve communities.

I went to a killer book signing last week at VC firm M13 in NYC, hosted by Axios —thanks to this week’s podcast guest, Joe Lazer. His new book, Super 

Is AI killing storytelling?

Global Keynote Speaker | Podcast Host, “Innovation Storytellers Show” We help innovation leaders become amazing storytellers to get the resources, runway and recognition they deserve.

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