Susan Adams combines her career passions for teaching, research, and consulting in her current position as Senior Director of Bentley University’s Center for Women and Business.

The Center is dedicated to supporting, retaining and promoting women in business by sharing solutions for overcoming the stagnation of women’s career advancement. Susan publishes regularly in leading academic and practitioner outlets, focusing on professional advancement and organizational effectiveness. Her academic insights, shared in and out of the classrooms of undergraduates, MBAs, PhDs and executives, are enhanced by her consulting work with over 80 clients.

Susan has served on and chaired boards of companies and non-profit organizations. She is a former Chair of the Management Consulting and Careers Divisions of the Academy of Management and a member of the American Psychological Association. She earned her Ph.D. in management from Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the proud mother of three and grandmother of two.