Susan DePue is a Growth Strategist working with all size businesses to take them to the next level. Her passion is working with a business owner that loves her business but is working too hard, feeling stuck, and not seeing the results she had hoped for. Susan goes in and develops a strategy so that the owner can work less, earn more, and have the business she always dreamed of having.
Susan began her present business at age 50 when she had to admit that she was totally burned out with her career in business sales. This was not an easy admission because she was earning a good salary and enjoyed some things about the career, but not all aspects of it. There also was the question of reinventing herself toward a new focus. She did not expect it to be easy.
The catalyst for GrowthPointe Strategies was remembering that her mother started her business around age 50. If her Mom could start a whole new business career at that age then she could create her dream job too. First she began with what she liked about her former career. Those likes were teaching others, working with business minded individuals, growing ideas and taking action on them. From here she moved toward what she knew she could give and how to form a new career around those gifts. Coaching seemed to be a great fit for her, but it had to be redefined as coaching in marketing; not personal coaching. The next step was getting training in how to do coaching, and learning how to focus that on marketing and company growth rather than career advancement skills. Like most changes, it was a journey of decisions, questions, and discoveries.
Susan’s focus now is her continued love for learning new things; growing business with new methods such as speaking to groups to find new clients; identifying companies she would like to work with; investigating their current situation, getting to know them and, if appropriate, making a proposal of how she can help them. Susan has always enjoyed being proactive.
Susan has enjoyed incredible success with GrowthPointe Strategies with her new methods rather than methods used 20 years ago, and taking action on new ideas. Susan says that one of the biggest outcomes for her was realizing that she is valued for her ideas and thoughts rather than for just what she does. What a powerful realization!
Interviewed and Written by Patsy Hatfield Lawson, Front Porch Presentations