About Me

 You may have heard her on one of the 45+ podcasts where she shares her insights.anYou’ve spent a long day at work (even if that means you’re working from home) and you rush to grab your kids. You head to activities or quickly head home. You’re managing homework and making dinner. And then it’s time for the bedtime routine. This is not the work-life balance you imagined before kids. The juggle is real as a working mom. 

Here’s the thing. You deserve to have the work-life balance you crave. It’s true! Read that again if you need to.

That work-life balance won’t simply happen. It takes action. Don’t try to make sweeping changes, though. Focus on little, consistent changes over time to create your version of work-life balance. I’ll help you along the way. 

I will start with saying that sometimes I struggle as a working mom too. And my work-life balance as a working mother didn’t quite look the way I had pictured before becoming a mom either. This is where my research and conversations with other successful working moms have really helped me.

When our older son was born 10 weeks premature, everything changed. After working full-time for more than a decade, I negotiated a transition to a part-time role at the large company where I had worked full time for years. And this is where the Mompowerment journey began.

So many working moms asked me about how I made the transition to a professional part-time role. When I looked around to find resources about the successful transition to a professional part-time role that gave practical information, I couldn’t find one. I decided to create one. So, I started interviewing working moms to hear their tips, insights, and advice. I had more than 110 conversations with professional working moms. I learned little nuggets from every conversation! And that was what led to the first book, Mompowerment: Insights from Successful Professional Part-time Working Moms Who Balance Career and Family, a Reader’s Favorite Silver Medal winner in Business & Finance. 

After the first book was launched, I started to get more and more questions about work-life balance outside of creating part-time opportunities. And that led to the second book. Working moms wanted practical tools, tips, and resources on balancing all the things. The Mompowerment Guide to Work-life Balance: Insights from Working Moms on Balancing Career and Family, a 3-time award-winner, provides tips, insights, and advice to help you manage all the things you care about.

And then companies started asking for advice and ideas because of the research I had done. They wanted me to talk to the working moms they employed to share practical tips and empower their teams. 

Want to know more about Suzanne’s professional experience?

Suzanne Brown empowers companies to become more balance-friendly and professional working moms to create the work-life balance they crave. She is a TED speaker and contributor to Harvard Business Review. She has been featured in major publications such as Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, TIME, Forbes, and Real Simple. You may have heard her on one of the 45+ podcasts where she shares her insights. Suzanne is a mom, wife, consultant, speaker, strategist, avid international traveler, and award-winning author.

After working for large marketing agencies in Austin, New York, Miami, Chicago, and San Antonio for more than 12 years and doing part-time consulting for more than 7 years in addition to her day job, she transitioned to focus only on her entrepreneurial opportunities. As a strategic marketing and business consultant, she helps seasoned entrepreneurs and large companies with their high-level marketing challenges via consulting and in-person and online training. 

As a work-life balance speaker and consultant, she helps companies and professional working mothers through 1:1 training and brainstorming. She collaborates with company leaders, managers, HR professionals, and individuals to create solutions to their challenges related to balance. 

When Suzanne isn’t working, she is often on a nearby or far off adventure. She set and reached a goal to visit 40 countries before turning 40! She and her husband are working on instilling a passion for travel and interacting with different cultures in their young boys as well, who have already traveled to seven countries.

Suzanne received her MBA in Marketing, BBA in Finance, and BA in Spanish from The University of Texas at Austin. (Hook ‘em!) She and her family live in Austin, Texas.