Suzanne Van Stralen, Ph.D. Principal
Suzanne Van Stralen Counsulting Services - leadership training and executive coaching for true change in corporate culture through action research
Suzanne Van Stralen Counsulting Services - leadership training and executive coaching for true change in corporate culture through action research

“Suzanne’s message and process is grounded in one’s values. When personal and organizational values are in harmony, work is joyful and meaningful. Suzanne models the ability to bring her whole self into interaction with others. This makes the working relationship with her come alive.”

Joan Mensinger, Compliance Manager, Financial Services.







Suzanne Van Stralen Counsulting Services - leadership training and executive coaching for true change in corporate culture through action research
Suzanne Van Stralen Counsulting Services - leadership training and executive coaching for true change in corporate culture through action research

Suzanne Van Stralen, MSOD, Ph.D.

I am an international organizational leadership change executive coach and change management consultant. As the owner of SVS Consulting Service, I coordinate our network of organizational leadership change consultants/coaches. We customize practical, innovative leadership development and organizational culture change initiatives that evoke conditions for learning and extraordinary results in performance, engagement, and effectiveness.

We offer on-site and remote consultation and coaching for individuals, teams, and organizations. We have a passion for helping individuals and teams become more effective and fulfilled in their professional lives and as organizational leadership change consultants and coaches, we help individuals, teams and organizations adapt to meet rapidly changing conditions. We specialize in collaborative and innovative leadership processes and practices – ones that cultivate an expanded leadership worldview or mindset and increased agility in working with complexity.

I established SVS Consulting Services in 1994 after completing a career in Marketing and Organizational Development for AT&T (large business systems) and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. I became interested in consulting while working as a manager for AT&T and eventually was sponsored by AT&T for graduate school at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Business Management MSOD Program. I then worked as an Organization Development Consultant for Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. As a life-long learner, I next completed a PH.D. focused on transformative learning and change. This experience and new relationships led me to spend the next nine years as a faculty member within Saint Mary’s College of California’s Master of Arts in Leadership Program. I recently returned my focus to SVS Consulting Services.

In addition to local and national organizational coaching and consulting, I appreciate contributing to the field of global leadership development, and I taught leadership studies in Micronesia and American Samoa. I also value contributing to my own community, and am the 2014 - 2015 President-Elect of the Rotary Club of North Napa. I live in Napa, California and enjoy hobbies such as caring for my two dogs, skiing, and hiking.