Susan E. Munter

work advice to solve the career puzzle

Working while neurodivergent can be a conundrum. Whether you are bipolar, with ADHD, or have schizophrenia, everything is different when you are neurodivergent – especially work. When we team up, you can put your core difference, neuro difference, at the heart of managing your career.

“Well-meaning job coaches tell me to be my most authentic self. But they don’t understand that for me, authenticity means disclosure. I have zero confidence that companies today can deal with disclosure of a neurodivergent person like me, so all that’s left is to fake it.”
– Tom

Services

Corporate L&D Facilitator

Lead organizational development initiatives, facilitate C-suite off-sites, and individual performance coaching.
Public Speaker

Deliver keynote addresses, breakout worksessions, and storytelling.
Personal Advisor

Coach individuals to be their best productive selves; align health, work, and personal lives.

Work

It’s a Puzzle

Finding work that works for you

Few things bring more health and stability than having meaningful work, regardless of whether it is paid or unpaid. But with neurodivergence, finding work that you enjoy and can sustain is like solving a Rubik’s Cube. We turn over the options, again and again, aligning health, work, and the rest of life, until the right combination clicks into place.

Workshop

Be Your Best Productive Self

1.0 Measure

The second step is an opportunity to discover strengths that have been forgotten, overlooked, or not yet fully realized. It is also a chance to identify what motivates and stifles your productivity. What sets you up for success that is both healthy and productive?

The goal of this program is to help you create and sustain a stable and satisfying livelihood. Below are five steps for finding a combination of health, work, and life that works best for you.

The purpose of the first step is to nail down key aspects of your diagnosis, its implications and your work situation. This process includes calculating your needed/desired income and digging into your work & health history.

2.0 Discover

4.0 Articulate

The purpose of this step is to create the story behind your own personal brand and weave together key messaging from findings to date. We will also discuss disclosure and what level of disclosure you are most comfortable with.

5.0 Own

3.0 Imagine

The Imagine step gives us permission to play with what an ideal work life might look like. What do you love most about being productive? What are the results of your most productive self? How does being productive impact your life overall?

Owning our work story means integrating it into the rest of our life. In the final step, we focus specifically on aligning your work, health, and other key aspects of your life.

Susan listens for a living. As a veteran of the Boston agency arena, she has worked alongside the best and brightest at Digitas, Mullen, PJA, and Hill Holiday. In 2015, Susan founded the advertising firm Branding Band, which has launched 10 startup brands primarily in the biotech industry. Susan also specializes in customer insights research of the luxury consumer.

Susan has a BA in art history and psychology from Sarah Lawrence College and an MBA from Simmons University, where she graduated summa cum laude and as a Dean's Scholar. She trained with Dr. Gerald Zaltman in customer insights analysis at the Harvard Business School’s Minds of the Market lab. Her work has taken her across Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Susan is a lay leader of the Bipolar Social Club, a NAMI-certified Connection support facilitator, and a Kiva Peer Support Specialist trainee. She is also a member of OutMetro West and PFLAG.