About Susanne Goldstein

Susanne Goldstein is an engineer-designer-filmmaker-business strategist who uses people-centric creative collaboration to accelerate business momentum and to create and build world-changing solutions. Her diverse Hollywood, dot-com and social sector experience provide her with a unique framework for addressing pressing corporate and social issues. With over 20 years consulting experience for organizations as diverse as Microsoft, The US Marine Corps, The Museum of Science - Boston, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Walt Disney Studios and Evite,

Susanne’s specialties include creative problem-solving, brand differentiation, experience architecture, social networking and web-based technology solutions. Susanne has taught graduate course work in “Interactive Product Design and Development” at The Academy of Art University in San Francisco and, as a Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership a class in “Leadership for Social Entrepreneurs”. She is a founding partner in Social Venture Partners - Bay Area, where she led the effort to start an after-school program for low-income families in San Francisco, and founded Social Enterprise in Action, a social enterprise advocacy group at Harvard.

Susanne, who has worked on over three dozen startups, holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School as well as a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an A.B. in Theatre and Film Studies, both from Cornell University. In a former life, she was a movie producer and screenwriter in Hollywood