Suzanne Glazer

Suzanne Glazer is a senior advisor and associate partner at Cambridge Advisors to Family Enterprise (CFEG), a highly specialized global advisory firm serving family enterprises. Cambridge Advisors and Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise, an education and research institute, are divisions of Cambridge Family Enterprise Group, a global organization founded in 1989. It is devoted to helping families and ownership groups navigate the new economy and achieve multigenerational success for their families, enterprises, and financial wealth.

Ms. Glazer advises individuals in the family enterprise system to develop effective and inspiring career and life plans and, more broadly, to help individuals be successful in all dimensions of their lives. Ms. Glazer takes a holistic view of one’s life by understanding their dreams and goals, relationships, resources, and motivations. Assessments are used (both in-person and online) as appropriate to gain a deeper understanding of one’s personality, and career and life interests. Ms. Glazer partners with each family member to create a development plan that targets their own unique strengths and challenges.

In addition to working with individuals within the family enterprise to live in alignment with their values, Ms. Glazer focuses on relationship dynamics, helping family members move from judgment to curiosity about themselves and each other. Ms. Glazer facilitates conversations that foster trust, respect, and connection, using communication tools and strategies to strengthen family bonds and enhance interpersonal relationships.

Ms. Glazer co-developed, with faculty chairs, the Developing Personal Leadership Effectiveness course at Harvard Business School, an experiential course designed to increase student strategic self-awareness and effectiveness in working with others. Her career at Harvard Business School spanned several positions over thirteen years. As the director of executive coaching and community values liaison for executive education, Ms. Glazer aimed to create an environment where executive education participants from around the globe learned together in an environment signified by honesty, integrity, and personal responsibility. Ms. Glazer designed the coaching curriculum and supporting materials, recruited talented executive coaches, and trained them to provide both facilitation and individual coaching to over 1600 executive education participants annually. Additional roles at HBS included the assistant director of the Leadership Initiative, and learning and development specialist.

Before joining the Harvard Business School, Ms. Glazer was an organizational development consultant at several firms including Watson Wyatt, Hunt Associates (where she co-developed The Coaching Manager Assessment™), and Linkage, Incorporated. Ms. Glazer also spent several years in the hospitality industry where she focused on service strategy.

Ms. Glazer holds a MA in Organizational Psychology from Teacher’s College, Columbia University and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Connecticut College.  She is certified in Family Systems Therapy through Therapy Training Boston and as a group leader for the Invitation to Change Approach, a helping framework based on science and kindness through CMC: Foundation for Change. Ms. Glazer is a graduate of the New Ventures West Professional Coaching Program and the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher training program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Ms. Glazer is a certified Riso-Hudson Enneagram Teacher and is certified in several personality and career assessment instruments.

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