Susan RoAne leads a double life as a bestselling author and a sought-after professional keynote speaker.  Known as The Mingling Maven®, she gives diverse audiences the required tools, techniques and strategies they need to connect and communicate in today’s global business world. Her practical, informative, and interactive presentations are known for what The San Francisco Chronicle calls her “dynamite sense of humor.”

How Women Leaders Network With Confidence in Business

RoAne’s audiences learn How to Work a Room® and master the art of face to face communication in any setting. With her timeless tips, anyone can overcome shyness and learn to schmooze with confidence in business networking or social gatherings. As a professional keynote speaker, some of the organizations that have hired Susan are: AT&T, Apple, Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Time Warner, Office Depot, Boeing, Citigroup, Ernst and Young, United States Department of The Treasury, Oracle, Procter and Gamble, United States Air Force, National Football League and, her personal favorite, Hershey’s Chocolate.

Women Can Become Excellent at Networking and Business Communication

Because of her groundbreaking best-seller, How to Work a Room®, SusanRoAne is considered one of the most influential networking and business communication experts. She has sold over a million books worldwide, and helped launch an industry that she continues to recreate and shape today.

Susan RoAne received her Master’s Degree from San Francisco State University and her Bachelor’s from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, where she was honored at “Authors Come Home”. (She still considers herself a Fighting Ilini!) A former teacher, Susan is also a sought-after college keynote speaker at major universities such as Yale, Wharton, University of Chicago, Regent University and NYU.

A resident of the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area, Susan is a member of The National Speakers Association, The Authors Guild, the MS society, a Supporter of The Mill Valley Film Festival, as well as a Friend of the San Francisco Ballet.

You may reach her at susan@susanroane.com.

Susan Roane’s interiew with Sabrina Braham: How Women Leaders Can Shine in a Crowd.