About Me

Susan Quandt is Managing Partner of The ROI3 Partnership: Imagine, Invest, Impact, a branding, leadership and strategy consulting firm based on asset-based thinking methodologies. She is author of Sudden Impact, a book on CEO secrets for success on the new job and regularly speaks to business audiences. She also leads a real estate development company and teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Previously, Quandt was president of the consumer sales division of a Chicago integrated cable TV and telecommunications start-up, 21st Century Telecom Group. She was part of the founding team that raised $300 million to fund the business and three years later sold it to RCN. Quandt successfully climbed the corporate ladder in such corporations as AT&T, Ameritech and Sprint Canada. During the heyday of the Internet boom, she was a management consultant and an executive recruiter specializing in placing senior level executives in venture-backed high technology start-ups. In the early ‘90’s, Quandt co-founded Women Shaping Technology, a virtual Who’s Who of senior-level executive women in technology

Quandt earned a PhD in Organization Development from Benedictine University in 2007. Her dissertation focused on CEO improvisational leadership. She has an MBA from the University of Wisconsin and a BS in accounting from Valparaiso University. Her non-profit involvement has included board positions with Our Next Generation, Imagine Chicago, Leadership Greater Chicago, and Future Milwaukee.