Susan Thorton, PsyD

Susan is a Psychologist and Executive Coach with Crenshaw Associates. In her work, she helps top executives and leadership teams leverage talent to accomplish a wide range of strategic objectives. Susan is known for her emphasis on achieving business goals, providing insight into complex dynamics at the individual, group, and organizational levels, and for her direct and supportive style.

Past and current clients range from large multinational Fortune 100 companies to entrepreneurial startups and span a variety of industries. Specific projects have included assessing, recommending, and coaching the new CEO of a multibillion-dollar corporation; helping the new leadership team at a manufacturing company achieve aggressive growth targets by coaching individual leaders to scale to larger roles and facilitating team sessions to improve decision-making; and co-creating a customized accelerated-development program for high-potential leaders at another multibillion-dollar company.

Before founding Thornton Leadership Advisory in 2020, Susan spent ten years as a senior consultant and client manager at leadership consulting firms, RHR International and Leadership Development Worldwide. In these roles, she conducted board evaluations, completed CEO succession engagements, advised CEOs and other senior leaders, designed and facilitated team development and coaching sessions, assessed and developed high potentials, and developed and facilitated leadership training programs for talent acquisition and coaching for development.

She recently served as chair of the Seattle board for Upwardly Global, a national organization that helps immigrants and refugees resume their professional careers in the U.S. Susan holds a PsyD from Widener University and received B.A. degrees in Psychology and Romance Languages from Washington and Lee University.