Prof. Rev. Susan Goldsworthy

She is Affiliate Professor of Leadership, Communications, and Organizational Change at IMD, where she co-leads the Executive Coaching Certificate and directs the Leading Sustainable Change programme. Her doctorate, from Ashridge Hult, is in organizational change. She also holds degrees in the neuroscience of leadership, from Middlesex and the NeuroLeadership Institute, and in consulting and coaching for change, from HEC and Oxford. She is an ordained OneSpirit Interfaith Minister and an award-winning author, including Care Dare Share: The Secure Base Coach. For more than twenty years she worked in global companies in Japan, the United States, and Europe, holding senior roles and leading work on communications, culture, brand, and inclusion. Her work moves leaders from "power over" to "power with", so people perform without burning out.

Susan has spent decades building research on secure-base leadership, in partnership with Dr. Duncan Coombe. That work now runs as part of an AI-led read, many times over, in personal, team, and company-wide engagements. Her Play to Thrive leadership assessment is one of those models. She built it from more than thirty years developing senior leaders, and grounded it in Dr. Duncan Coombe's research, the same research behind the award-winning book Care to Dare. It helps anyone who works in or leads a team keep performing, and resets how the team works together. Her FIT for Purpose model is a whole-person well-being journey across three dimensions, each holding two facets: Flow (breath and body), Intent (agency and awareness), and Trust (connection and meaning). It is research-backed and meets a person without judging them. It starts from a read of where they stand now, then takes them through personalised coaching, expert-led classes, curated content, and a community to lean on.