Sue Barenholtz
Sue Barenholtz is a public speaker, woman’s empowerment coach and queen of the Wild Boomer Women, a social group she started for women over 45 offering fun, adventure and travel with girlfriends. Sue is all about helping women find their power, overcome obstacles and bring joy and happiness into their daily lives. She leads by example. For 20 years, she had a thriving corporate training and consulting business, traveled worldwide, sat on many nonprofit and professional boards and had recently started a center for abused and neglected teens. When she was diagnosed with a devastating chronic illness, that all came to a grinding halt. For the next seven years during her illness she spent the better part her time in bed, not able to work, get together with friends or much of anything. She went from doctor to doctor trying to get help but only found doctors who were treating the symptoms with drugs. When she finally found help, she was on 18 different medications. After two days of extensive testing, the doctors told her she had lost 80% of her physical and cognitive abilities.
That was a wakeup call and she felt the only way to heal was to get away by herself. She left her husband and “ran away from home”, with his hesitant understanding. When she arrived at her favorite place, tucked away next to a forest and lake, she could barely walk to the mailbox at the end of the driveway. She started swimming and walking and got off almost all of her medication. She knew she would be ready to go home when she could walk to the main road two miles away. Six weeks later she had accomplished that and returned home.
It took three more years for her to realize how unhappy she was in her 20 year marriage. Although she didn't have an income and hadn’t worked for years, she found the strength to leave her husband and start over. During the next year she worked on taking care of herself, gave up her illness, moved, lost her father, was dealing with a very ill mother 2,000 miles away, fell in love, dealt with a difficult breakup, started a new career and was so happy she didn’t know what to do with herself. Today she is completely healthy, practices extreme self-care, has made new girlfriends to go out and have fun with, travels and lives life to the fullest.
Her professional background includes consulting, training and coaching with companies such as Subang Jaya Medical Center in Malaysia, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United Way, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Chrysler Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, General Motors Corporation, Honeywell, AMC Theatres, Ford International Service Center, CDI Corporation and AAA Michigan. She is the author of dozens of training programs. She has coached small business owners, human resource professionals and mid to upper level managers. She has lead, recruited and trained multiple boards and committee and is past-president of the Detroit Chapter of ASTD, past national director of a special interest group at ASTD National as well as several charitable organizations.
Sue Barenholtz is a public speaker, woman’s empowerment coach and queen of the Wild Boomer Women, a social group she started for women over 45 offering fun, adventure and travel with girlfriends. Sue is all about helping women find their power, overcome obstacles and bring joy and happiness into their daily lives. She leads by example. For 20 years, she had a thriving corporate training and consulting business, traveled worldwide, sat on many nonprofit and professional boards and had recently started a center for abused and neglected teens. When she was diagnosed with a devastating chronic illness, that all came to a grinding halt. For the next seven years during her illness she spent the better part her time in bed, not able to work, get together with friends or much of anything. She went from doctor to doctor trying to get help but only found doctors who were treating the symptoms with drugs. When she finally found help, she was on 18 different medications. After two days of extensive testing, the doctors told her she had lost 80% of her physical and cognitive abilities.
That was a wakeup call and she felt the only way to heal was to get away by herself. She left her husband and “ran away from home”, with his hesitant understanding. When she arrived at her favorite place, tucked away next to a forest and lake, she could barely walk to the mailbox at the end of the driveway. She started swimming and walking and got off almost all of her medication. She knew she would be ready to go home when she could walk to the main road two miles away. Six weeks later she had accomplished that and returned home.
It took three more years for her to realize how unhappy she was in her 20 year marriage. Although she didn't have an income and hadn’t worked for years, she found the strength to leave her husband and start over. During the next year she worked on taking care of herself, gave up her illness, moved, lost her father, was dealing with a very ill mother 2,000 miles away, fell in love, dealt with a difficult breakup, started a new career and was so happy she didn’t know what to do with herself. Today she is completely healthy, practices extreme self-care, has made new girlfriends to go out and have fun with, travels and lives life to the fullest.
Her professional background includes consulting, training and coaching with companies such as Subang Jaya Medical Center in Malaysia, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United Way, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Chrysler Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, General Motors Corporation, Honeywell, AMC Theatres, Ford International Service Center, CDI Corporation and AAA Michigan. She is the author of dozens of training programs. She has coached small business owners, human resource professionals and mid to upper level managers. She has lead, recruited and trained multiple boards and committee and is past-president of the Detroit Chapter of ASTD, past national director of a special interest group at ASTD National as well as several charitable organizations.
Intentional Networking
Do you walk into a room where networking is happening and freeze? How do you walk up to a total stranger or a group of strangers and start a conversation? Better yet, how do you introduce yourself with the intention to get others to know you and what you do?
Using interactive audience participation, participants will create their intentional introduction and practice with others in the room. Participants leave with new connections and the confidence to walk...
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