SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 277: Business Savvy Tips for Women Engineers With TED Speaker Susan Colantuono

For women engineers who want to climb the corporate ladder, putting your head down and doing your job is often not enough.

Susan Colantuono, TED speaker and founder of Be Business Savvy, shares the key business and strategic skills to help women get ahead in this conversation with Laurie Shuster, editor-in-chief of SWE Magazine.

Hear Colantuono’s practical tips to understand your employer’s market positioning, promote your achievements effectively, and be perceived as a leader in STEM.

Learn more about the skills women engineers need to climb the corporate ladder in the Conference 2024 issue of SWE Magazine.

Listen to the episode on SWE’s website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Speaker: Susan Colantuono, Founder, Be Business Savvy

Susan Colantuono is the founder of Be Business Savvy where she equips women with the business, financial and strategic acumen they need to succeed. She is an internationally renowned author, speaker, and mentor/coach.

Colantuono discovered, developed, and introduced to the world a definition of leadership and four keys that have transformed women’s leadership development and initiatives to close the leadership gender gap, including “The Missing 33%” of the career success equation for women.

Her TED Talk “The Career Advice You Probably Didn’t Get” has over 4.5 million views.

Host: Laurie Shuster, Editor-in-Chief, SWE Magazine

Laurie A. Shuster is the Editor-in-Chief of SWE Magazine for the Society of Women Engineers. She has more than 30 years of experience in writing, editing, and managing print and online publications in the B2B (business-to-business) field. Shuster is responsible for the content planning, editing, production, and day-to-day management of SWE Magazine.

Before joining SWE, Shuster was Deputy Editor of Landscape Architecture Magazine for the American Society of Landscape Architects and Editor-in-Chief of Civil Engineering magazine for the American Society of Civil Engineers.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in journalism from the University of Maryland and completed the Program for Developing Managers at Simmons College Graduate School of Management in Boston. Throughout her career, Laurie received numerous accolades and awards for her magazine work, both in editorial and design excellence.