Susan brings over two decades of leadership experience in the not-for-profit sector, serving in both executive and consultant capacities. Her tenure with Copley Raff has included campaign planning engagements with Saints Medical Center Foundation, Southcoast Health System, Catholic Charities North and the Port Chester Carver Center.
Prior to Copley Raff, Sue served as a freelance development consultant, advising a diverse clientele spanning the arts, human services, education, and religion. She worked with the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, assessing and revitalizing their development program while working closely with the Board of Directors to adopt a more creative, ambitious approach to resource development. Sue provided counsel to Project Bread in an effort to broaden their fund-raising efforts beyond the Walk for Hunger. Responsibilities included reinvigorating the Board of Trustees, expanding the development department, establishing a leadership giving society, and increasing Project Bread's readiness to launch a major gifts program.
During most of the 1990's Sue served as a Senior Management Consultant with the Wayland Group in Sudbury, specializing in capital campaign feasibility, planning and execution; long range strategic planning; major gifts; planned giving; and executive search. During her seven years at the Wayland Group, Sue advised a variety of clients including the National Academy of Sciences, the Boston Foundation, Radcliffe College, Tufts University, Emerson College, Lasell College, YMCA of Greater Boston, the Worcester Art Museum, the New England Aquarium, Chestnut Hill School, Miss Hall's School, Nashoba Brooks School and Shady Hill School.
Prior to her work as a consultant, Sue spent a decade as a senior executive with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, helping build a nascent development operation into a top-tier advancement program. As Assistant Director of Development, Sue wore a variety of hats, supervising the Annual Fund department, raising major gifts, establishing successful independent fundraising programs for Tanglewood and the Boston Pops, inaugurating the BSO's successful corporate fundraising franchise, Presidents at Pops, and serving on the team that planned the capital campaign for Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood.