Susan Lucia Annunzio is Chairman and CEO of the Hudson Highland Center for High
Performance, Adjunct Professor of Management at the University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business and the author of Contagious Success, Evolutionary
Leadership and Communicoding.
"Ms Annunzio," writes The Wall Street Journal, "says more CEOs have to have the
guts to stand up to the investment community and tell them companies can't cut
their way to sustainable growth."
Cultivating sustainable growth is the centerpiece of Susan Lucia's unique
approach to business. In fact, she has built her career on helping companies
across the globe create and maintain high-performance work environments.
Before founding the CFHP, Susan Lucia led the global Change Management practice
at Nextera. Her change management practice won numerous industry awards -
including the Dalton Pen Award of Excellence, the CIPRA Award of Excellence,
the Telly Award and the Publicity Club of Chicago Silver Trumpet, in
recognition of their pioneering work with Fortune 50 companies. Susan Lucia has
extensive experience working with leading companies, crossing all industry
sectors, including BP, Pfizer, ABN AMRO, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Amazon.com.
Susan Lucia Annunzio recently directed the most comprehensive global study of
knowledge workers ever conducted - ground-breaking research on the factors that
accelerate or stifle high performance. She states, "It is shocking, but 90
percent of the highest paid and best educated employees in the world are
toiling in underperforming workgroups." Thanks to her groundbreaking work,
businesses finally have the concrete tools to measure and replicate the best
habits of their most successful workgroups.
