We're Sue Ryan and Nancy Treaster. Our focus with The Caregiver’s Journey is to provide guidance for Alzheimer's and other dementia family caregivers. The Caregiver’s Journey is a suite of resources available globally. These resources include our podcasts, blogs, social media, Sue’s caregiving-oriented books, an online course, guides, coaching, workshops, and professional speaking.Learn more at www.thecaregiversjourney.com

Excited to have been selected to be a member of the Leadership Collier Class of 2023. It is a transformational community leadership experience for both participants and the organizations they lead. Through hands-on experiences and exclusive behind-the-scenes sessions, participants fully explore local government, education, economic development, the arts, and more. Class members will also hear from experienced area leaders who deal with our community’s biggest opportunities and challenges. With the benefit of new perspectives and connections, participants are prepared to take their places as effective community leaders for a better future.

About John Mattone Global (JMG)Change the World One Leader, One Organization at a Time®John Mattone the Founder and Chairman of John Mattone Global, for an unprecedented fifth time in the past six years (2019-2024), was recently recognized as the world’s #1 executive coach. John Mattone Global (JMG)-the firm was founded in 2011. JMG was recognized by Worldwide Research in 2023 and Statsdata in 2024 as one of the world’s top 10 executive coaching and leadership development firms.John Mattone and JMG have worked with world leaders from the US White House, the former Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi, the Governments of the UAE, Colombia, and Saudi Arabia as well as industry leaders such as Steve Jobs-Apple; Roger Enrico-PepsiCo; and Yasir Al-Rummayyan-Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. JMG is a premier boutique executive coaching firm that has worked on projects in 55 countries.John Mattone personally works privately and confidentially with 10-12 global CEO's and government leaders each year. JMG employs some of the world's top credentialed coaches, who provide coaching and leadership development services—including keynotes, workshops, and retreats, and culture assessment/transformation services to global organizations representing any industry and leaders at any level. John Mattone Global (JMG) is also a global top 5 executive coach certification company that provides International Coaching Federation (ICF) approved and accredited certification programs to coaches and leaders through its' trademarked and licensed brand, Intelligent Leadership. John Mattone Partners, Inc. (JMP), owns an industry-leading 15 registered IP trademarks (with three more under review) awarded by the USPTO.IL Coaching: CEO and C-Suite Coaching; Senior Executive Coaching; Coaching for Managers; Coaching for Entrepreneurs; Coaching for HIPO's/Emerging Leaders; Team Coaching; Mindset Coaching; Corporate Wellness Coaching, Culture Coaching, and Conflict Resolution Coaching.

We often find ourselves at crossroads in our lives. We’ve been navigating changes in our lives from the beginning of time. Changes come to us in all shapes and sizes. They can be gradual or sudden, and range from disruption to dissatisfaction to excitement to curiosity. The birth of a child, loss of a job, contemplating retirement, a significant change in a relationship, a health diagnosis, exploring what else is possible. The list is endless and each change is unique.When you don’t know how to intentionally navigate these changes, you can’t create what’s amazing for you. My goal as a communicator is to guide you - through actionable lessons, strategies, tips - with real-life examples and stories – to successfully navigate changes in your life so they become the transformations for you to live your best life, throughout your life. You feel great about yourself, satisfied with your success, and fulfilled from your achievements. You may feel like you should be able to figure this out on your own, not knowing you’re limited by the same thinking that got you where you are.You’re not sure where to start, how to start, what you’ll find, or what to do. You are sure whatever you do is going to take you out of your comfort zone. Even if what you’re feeling now isn’t comfortable, it’s what you know.You’re not alone; I know how you feel. It’s reasonable you don’t know where to go or how to get there. I sure didn’t. I know what it feels like to be standing at the edge of the abyss of a transition - or to be down in the abyss - not knowing where to turn, what to do, or who I am now.What if you woke up every day feeling confident and secure - knowing what to do, how to do it, when to do it…and why you do it? Turn crossroads into transformations, moving you intentionally from where you are to something even more amazing - often something you hadn’t realized was possible. This is what I call Business and Life Reimagined. https://sueryan.solutions/

With the support and challenge of an Executive Coach, senior and high-potential business leaders gain the focus, skills, and confidence for optimal performance and impact. Leaders grow, model strong leadership values, develop individuals and teams, and further a “Leader as Coach” culture in their organization. Coaching is the most individualized and effective of all talent development modalities. Each engagement is centered on specific development objectives and measurable, sustainable results. Coaching is candid, constructive and confidential, accelerating progress and sustainable results. Challenger Executive Coaches are senior business leaders who are accredited and experienced in Executive Coaching.

I am serving as a mentor to women who have been chosen by their companies as future leaders. Throughout my career I have benefitted from the investments in my growth and success by mentors and want to "pay it forward" as much as possible.

My international best-selling book Our Journey of Love, 5 Steps to Navigate Your Caregiving Journey was selected by Lori La Bey and Alzheimer's Speaks as their featured author and book: https://alzheimersspeaks.wordpress.com/2020/04/02/dementia-a-journey-of-love/

My international best-selling book Our Journey of Love, 5 Steps to Navigate Your Caregiving Journey was selected by AlzAuthors as their featured book: https://alzauthors.com/2020/09/01/sue-ryan/

Working with team to increase awareness of their amazing offerings. Focus on digital marketing, branding, communications.

I'm fortunate to have the opportunity to work with businesses in the development and execution of their business, branding and social media strategies. Through JSR Advisors, I have the vehicle to work with people to successfully align their needs with solutions that create their success.

As the Digital Engagement Director, my responsibilities include identifying how to most effectively leverage the Internet and digital media to support the business goals of AeroVista Innovations (AVI). This includes working with the AVI team to develop and build the digital marketing strategy for AeroVIsta Drone Academy and AeroVista Services we will implement to communicate our brand and leading edge solutions. Our digital presence will engage, educate, inspire, and grow our community.

My final course at SNHU was a capstone project designed to bring together components of each of the courses I learned from throughout my degree program. Throughout this project I learned five new software programs, created mind maps, project timelines with deliverables and a budget, a SWOT Analysis, a Situational Analysis, and a multimedia presentation. We critiqued the work of fellow students so we could all improve the quality of our final deliverable, but each of us worked alone. It was an exciting, challenging, and incredibly rewarding experience. I am proud that I received a perfect score on my work. Here are excerpts from the comments by my professor about my work in COM690."Thanks for your hard work this term and for delivering your final projects early. You were a true pleasure to have in class. Not only do I appreciate all of your efforts towards your own project, but you also went the extra mile on the discussion boards and really showed that you cared about helping your peers. I have been looking forward to seeing your final project since we last spoke about it and you delivered …. I appreciate that you did not simply integrate my feedback to please me, but your deliverable demonstrates your understanding of the concepts we discussed and you went an extra mile in each area. Your final paper and presentation are both excellent. They are examples of the type of work we hope students can deliver. … you should be proud of what you’ve accomplished. Not only have you demonstrated your skills to us, but you’ve created a project to use as a portfolio piece to situate yourself as a communication professional. … You won this race! You may not have been in the lead the entire time, but you reassessed your position when needed, made the necessary adjustments and sped towards the finish line with confidence." …Evan

In COM566, we learned the importance of understanding audiences, platforms, contexts, structures, applications, messages, cultures, and societies, when crafting effective communications. There is no "one sizes fits all" when creating messages that are effective for each targeted audience and each platform they use. This is extremely valuable for my ability to communicate because I now understand the lens' a message needs to pass through in order to make its intended impact.Here is an excerpt of comments Dr. Z. made about my work:"Susan demonstrated clearly her knowledge of digital tools and platforms and their application to business strategy and growth, performing far beyond the course requirements. She understands the value of strategic partnering and clear executive vision as a cornerstone for achieving organizational goals. I strongly recommend Sue as someone who can add value to an organization through application of her mastery of communication for marketing and organizational excellence."Best,Dr. Z

This course was fascinating and so practical for my understanding and application of digital campaigns. We created a digital campaign that included the life cycle of the campaign from developing goals, strategies and tactics, understanding how to create the campaign for the target audience, ensuring the campaign followed moral, legal and ethical guidelines, campaign management strategies, effective tracking and measurement, audience engagement, most effective digital tools to support campaign strategies, and making campaign modifications based on data analysis.

When I began COM530 Law & Ethics, A Line in The Sand, our professor, Richard Vogel, explained we would be learning that actions can be legal but unethical and unethical but legal. I had never studied either legal or ethical implications and was fascinated by how my eyes were opened both by the importance of each and the potential impact their abuse can have. As our world expands through our digital abilities, it is important for our thoughts and actions, especially our communications, to consider their global implications.

I have just completed my Master’s program and I am very excited about graduating! When I began my studies, I was not working toward maintaining a grade point average; my primary goal was to immerse myself in each course and learn as much as I could. The by-product of that turned out to be both a tremendously exciting set of both updated and new skills, as well as a 4.0 GPA throughout my entire degree program. I decided to return to graduate school to build on my existing skill sets and strengthen my communications, marketing and social media skills. I wanted to do this before returning to the working world after having chosen to take a sabbatical from traditional employment. This has been an amazing journey! I am including representative information about each course in my LinkedIn Experience section.I am very excited to have received in the following letter from the Vice President of Academic Affairs for SNHU:Dear Susan, Congratulations! You’ve been selected as the Outstanding Student in the Master of Arts in Communication program. I’m delighted to invite you to SNHU’s College of Online and Continuing Education Graduate Academic Awards Ceremony.Please join us to celebrate your accomplishments with your friends, family, colleagues and teachers. I look forward to meeting and congratulating you on your outstanding achievements.Sincerely,Dr. Gregory FowlerChief Academic Officer, VP of Academic Affairs

Throughout my career, I have used communications to engage, align, prepare people to buy, soothe, persuade, share, cheer on and educate. I have used them to develop, maintain, strengthen - and repair - relationships. I am a passionate communicator. Before beginning my graduate studies I had tremendous respect for the potential and power of communications, but not a true understanding of its foundations and disciplines and their impact on individuals, cultures and societies. This course opened my eyes to the importance of considering the foundations and disciplines of communications so my future communications can be more effective and more helpful.

The goal of ProWIN is to provide professional and entrepreneurial women with a place to meet like-minded women for both business and social networking. Our focus is on women who are building business by building relationships.

The CAC, founded in 1987 by Fr. Richard Rohr, is a center for experiential education, encouraging the transformation of human consciousness through contemplation, equipping people to be instruments of peaceful change in the world. People of all faiths from around the world share the CAC vision that crosses boundaries of religion, ethnicity, social class and gender as a source of hope, inspiration and change.As a member of the Board, I am working with others who are committed to the growth and expansion of the Center and the execution of its mission and values. As the CAC creates the Rohr Institute and the Living School, Fr. Richard's work will be able to continue to multiply and be preserved for future generations.

As a Founding Principal with Dark Star Cloud, I worked with our team to develop and execute our business and social media strategies, create continuity between our teams and bring our solution to its current position of the foundation of networks to disintermediate activities through supply chain management, serving a variety of industries including Consulting, Flavoring, and Transportation.

I am excited to be working with Laura and her team to bring the value of her messages to a broader audience, increasing people's productivity around the world. My focus is especially in the area of her offerings as a Keynote Speaker - Productivity and Time Management.Laura Stack is highly successful at giving office pros tools to achieve Maximum Results in Minimum Time® and increase personal productivity! The Productivity Pro®, Inc. is a time management training firm that, since 1992, has specialized in productivity improvement in high-stress organizations - improving output, lowering stress, and saving time in today’s workplaces. Please take a look at her LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/laurastack When you look at the testimonials for her value to customers either with recommendations on her LinkedIn profile or on her website: http://www.theproductivitypro.com/m_testimonials.htmyou will see why I am so committed to spreading her message and helping other people become more efficient and successful."Dedicated to helping leaders build high-performance cultures and achieve Maximum Results in Minimum Time® through increased personal, team, and employee productivity (since 1992)."303-471-7401 ext. 4

I had the exciting opportunity to work with the Best Results team as we developed and rolled out our marketing and branding messages, social media strategy and sales channel development and execution to drive business. When they decided to focus on their opportunities in Australia for a few years in order to strengthen their base, we determined it wouldn't be practical to work together from such a distance. This is an amazing company founded by brilliant men, Patrick Byrne and Robert McWhirter.What is Best Results IRP:- Best Results IRP is a patented methodology, process, and software for value creation.Why should you care:- Best Results IRP unlocks additional efficiencies from your current business operations.- It leverages your ERP systems to give you the same visibility into, and control over, all of your outside business relationships.- Best Results IPR will increase revenue and return more to the bottom line.- Best Results IRP is not just a new Supply Chain Management. It goes way beyond that, way deeper into external business relationships, to deliver significant value for the business.

I worked with Vocera Communications sales and marketing team to review, redesign and recreate the Sales Tool Kit used by their sales and sales support teams. This included identifying what was needed by each component of the team, interviewing the people responsible for the data and designing and developing a new tool kit that will be a valuable asset for the sales team.

I served on the Board of Directors for what was then named Mother of God, House of Prayer. I focused on their marketing, social media, and technology initiatives. During that time, our focus was on how to raise awareness of the center, raise capital, grow the community and increase the number of offerings to the community and potential community members. This was a truly rewarding experience then and remains that way as the Center continues to grow!

I've watched Mikki transform people - individually and in groups! As her Director of Opportunities, I was excited about helping align people with her gifts. I'm grateful for the time I spent re-engaging in the activities I had enjoyed so much; thanks for the memories Mikki!

The goal of Social Media Magic was to bring top experts with the major tools of social media to educate us on the who, what, why, and how of each tool. Denise Wakeman and Jason Alba are two of the eleven experts who provided this valuable training.

I was responsible for identifying new companies to deliver sales and delivery services to as well as managing the Oracle account during my time with InfoMentis.

Regional sales and major account Financial Services sales. Sales performance club honors on an annual basis. Outstanding experience with a high quality team of great people.

In my role as a sales representative with Dun & Bradstreet Software I was responsible for expanding business with existing customers and growing our presence with new customers. I did this both with a geographic and an industry focus. Being part of excellent teams helped me to consistently exceed my performance goals.