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Susan Abar is the Director of OD, Training and Performance Solutions at SA Solutions. She brings over 15 years of consulting and corporate training experience to SA Performance Solutions. Devoted has devoted her career to the development of human potential and is committed to quality and excellence in training.

A performance management guru, Susan is writer and speaker. She facilitates workshops and consults with organizations providing tools and processes to reframe challenges, overcome obstacles and achieve professional and corporate goals. , leadership, and organizational e, Susan Abar is an inspirational speaker, professional speaker, cancer survivor and woman of faith. Positive in the face of change, tenacious and resilient, Susan's humor and passion punctuate her positive and vibrant message to help others raise the bar and live life fully.

Devoted to the development of human potential and committed to quality and excellence in training, Susan incorporates interactive easy-to-use concepts that help her audiences learn skill sets and understand unique motivators that help them improve their performance and achieve their goals.

Susan's captivating stories, warm heart, and unrelenting spirit motivate and inspire her audiences to:

• Embrace change in a challenging times
• Invest their time, talent and resources to add value
• Own behaviors and attitudes
• Value diverse strengths

A businesswoman, teacher, speaker, mother and breast cancer survivor, Susan Abar is passionate about helping people and organizations develop competencies and achieve goals.

A coach, author and communicator, Susan facilitates workshops and speaks to organizations and individuals providing tools and encouragement to reframe challenges, overcome obstacles and achieve goals.

Susan grew up in the small town in southeast Michigan and attended college at Western Michigan University. Before graduating from college, Susan traveled to Europe, attended the University of Graz and studied music singing in a folk group. She later joined the Peace Corps walking three to five miles a day into the hills of Jamaica providing training and teaching tools to teachers. During her tour in Jamaica, Susan married and continued to live on the island for ten wonderful years before moving to Miami to attend graduate school.

In addition to a bachelor's degree in Education, Sociology, and Music, Susan has earned two advanced degrees, a master's in Human Resources and Business and a master's in Education.

Education:

In addition to a Bachelor's Degree in Education, Sociology, and Music. Susan holds two advanced degrees, one in Human Relations and Business and the other in Education. Qualifications, Certification, Achievements:

• MBTI qualified through APT
  
• Helping Others Succeed through Blessing/White
  
• The Power of Self through Marsha Clark and Associates
  

• International Society for Performance Improvement
• American Society for Training and Development
• North Texas National Speaker's Association
• National Speaker's Association

What Clients Say:

"Susan is a consummate professional; her dynamic presence serves as a motivating factor for all who come in contact with her."

"Susan, you are the best thing that happened to me at the convention . . ."

"Susan Abar is sharp and informative."

"Susan has been a role model, a caring and concerned supporter, and a professional speaker to whom our clients instantly relate. She is one of the few to whom they have listened with rapt attention . . . they know she's for real."

"Wow!"