Susan Hodgkinson is an author and expert in Leadership and Personal Branding to organizations. She is a leadership development expert, award-winning executive coach and professional speaker. Hodgkinson pioneered leadership branding: her “The 5 P’s of Leadership Brand®” has been taught via Fortune 500 firms in the US, UK, Europe and Asia.She is the author of The Leader’s Edge: Using Personal Branding to Drive Performance and Profit. Her book has sold more than 30,000 copies worldwide and received the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award. The Leader’s Edge is now considered to be the defining textbook on personal branding for leaders in the US and abroad.She is a keynote speaker at National Conferences (TOIGO), Momentum, and at Fortune 500 meetings on leadership and inclusion. Men are very much welcomed at her keynotes and workshops. Hodgkinson is a member of The Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. Her work has recently appeared in Working Mother Media, NasDaq TradeTalks, HR Future Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Essence Magazine and other major media. Her second book, The Dignity Mindset: A Leader's Guide to Building Gender Equity at Work (2019) won the Nonfiction Authors Association Gold Award in 2021.Her extensive work with women and people of color over two decades serves as the basis for her gender and inclusion consulting to C-suites as they work to advance diversity, culture and inclusion in their organizations.She holds her MBA from Simmons School of Management.