Susan Murphy

I have worked with Susan for over a decade and in a number of different companies. Susan is one of the best employees, colleagues and subsequently business partners I have ever worked with. Her creative and inquisitive nature allows her to find real solutions to problems that balance clients needs and requirements with the best interests of the organization she belongs to or runs. Susan loves what she does and her enthusiasm becomes infectious with those around. She is the consumate team player, professionally, socially and in her consistently high level of contribution.

What really sets Susan apart is an insatiable desire to learn and grow, try new things and be at the forefront of her profession. We all strive to do this - Susan achieves it. She has the unique quality of being able to fully understand and help set the strategic direction of a project, while at the same time possessing the technical skills necessary to execute tactical requirements/tasks at an exceptionally high level. I believe that Susan is what every good organization or project needs; someone who is bright, reliable, steady and dedicated.

Susan has true character. She is simply a solid, confident and professional individual who brings out the best with her friends, colleagues and anyone around her. I highly recommend Susan, I am proud to consider her my friend and welcome any inquiries about her character, skills or value to a project or organization.

Susan knows story telling. From her background in television and her experience in social media, Sue ably shares how how businesses and individuals can find their voices when creating their own stories. Her years of experience teaching show when she takes the stage and holds our rapt attention. She's got a warm, approachable manner and an interesting, accessible perspective. Shunning hyperbole, Susan gives her audiences practical advice they can act upon. I highly recommend Sue as a speaker.

We brought Susan in to run two workshops for us - one on writing and one on using social media. After meeting with her to discuss our needs I felt a lot of confidence that she understood what I was looking for and that she would provide what we wanted.
Her presentation was clear and the handouts she created for us were a great extra. We got a lot of compliments from the staff that come out to the workshops.

Susan Murphy is an expert in her field and she is also an expert in sharing her knowledge in a friendly, accessible and engaging manner. Susan gets close to her audience, helping them to understand and grasp sometimes difficult subject matter. Susan's objective is always to ensure that her audience gets it...and gets it the first time. She's always available for follow up, is a pleasure to work with and makes sure she closes the loop on any discussion.

We hired Susan as a session speaker for our 2010 annual conference; her topic was "social media for entrepreneurs" . Susan was one of the first people I knew to be really engaged (and continues to be) in social media. I've attended lots of sessions on Web 2.0 technologies that repeated the same thing - and didn't really leave the audience knowing how they could engage in their business in social media. Susan's session was well thought out, interestingly presented and I think made the thought of engaging in social media, from an SME perspective, less intimidating and a real possibility for reaching current and future customers.

I've worked with Susan on various projects over the years, starting as a volunteer cameraman and floor director when she was a Television Producer at Rogers.

Over the years, her fascination with social media and it's ability to reach a variety of audiences and verticals has grown to encompass everything from pod casting, blogging, marketing and web design to teaching and lecturing and her knowledge has grown right along with it.

When Susan speaks to a group, she is brilliant at speaking as a peer, never speaking down to people with less knowledge, but rather infusing her knowledge with such excitement she sweeps you along with her. As a teacher, she is very hands on, making learning easy and fun.

As a speaker, instructor, and media master, I strongly recommend Susan to anyone who needs experience, knowledge and enthusiasm in one package.

I've been reading Susan's popular blog for sometime and have explored business opportunities with her in the past. However, our first opportunity to truly work together was as organizers of TEDx Ottawa.

Working with Susan was one of the highlights of the event. She pulled together a world beating technical volunteer team to develop the website, film and photograph the event, deal with all the audio, and more ... all without batting an eye or panic. In addition, her extensive experience and network helped the event get substantial coverage on-line and in traditional media.

I can say without hesitation that Susan is someone I want to do business with because the quality of the work is so high and the integrity and desire to go above and beyond is very rare.

Sue Murphy is one of my favourite people. I've known her as a friend, confidante and trusted colleague. Yet she's also an incredibly talented video producer, as she proved with her work on the official promo video for my 12for12k project.

When I approached Sus about it, there was no hesitation - she was in. Over the course of 6-8 weeks in the winter of 2008 into 2009, Sue and her creative partner Cheryl Gain pored over thousands of heartbreaking images to condense into an incredibly powerful 4 minute video.

Sue makes every single project a labour of love, and you can clearly see from her results that she is passionate and knowledgeable about the subjects she works with. I can honestly say half of the 12for12k success wouldn't have happened without Sue's insight, and for that I can't recommend her highly enough.

Simply put - hire Sue today!

I know of Susan's work from a series of complex systems design and delivery projects which resulted in very high quality deliverables. Susan gets into the heart of the matter, makes a quick analysis, determines the strengths & weaknesses and skilfully develops strategic approaches to advance the projects; she also brings a strong desire for continuous improvement which adds her distinctly creative contributions.
A great team player, she is positive, energetic and can add a unique level of humour to just about any undertaking. In addition to being a professional, creative, and deadline driven asset, Susan is fun to work with.

Sue is a professional who gets great results, and is experienced enough to foresee potential issues before they become problems. She's dedicated and a pleasure to work with.