Meredith, Susan

Susan Meredith speaks and writes on global, personal, and organizational energy management. She is the author of Beyond Light Bulbs: Lighting the Way to Smarter Energy Management. Beyond Light Bulbs helps readers move beyond the gloom, doom, and information overload of global warming and the energy crisis. Susan’s expertise in business process improvement helps organizations reduce wastes, improve efficiencies, and save energy. She is founder and co-owner of HumanExcel, a corporate educational firm based in Austin, Texas. Susan heads up their “Return on Excellence”™ programs—using proven statistical methods to provide financially quantifiable results in high performance process improvement projects. Susan has taught and mentored over 600 Six Sigma Green Belt projects, including projects that have had measurable impacts exceeding one million dollars each. Susan has trained and certified over 40 Six Sigma consultants, has been instrumental in the design of World Class Six Sigma training programs, and has served as Master Instructor for Motorola and other multi-national corporations.

Susan has also developed and delivered courses and published articles on "Mother Nature's Laws," which use laws of nature—such as momentum, stress, and dynamics—to teach about human nature and behaviors in the workplace—the personal energy portion of her work.

Previously at IBM, Susan received a Management Excellence Award for managing the design team for a large-scale automation project and a Quality Award for the new implementation of statistical processes.

Her other HumanExcel clients include IBM, Dell, Samsung, Bristol Myers, Prudential Assurance, the Texas State Comptroller’s Office, the Texas State Auditor’s Office, the American Cancer Society, and Learning Curve International.

Susan holds a bachelor’s degree in General Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from University of Texas’ McCombs School of Business.