Susan A. Murphy, PhD
About Susan A. Murphy, PhD
Susan Murphy, MBA, PhD, is a business and organizational consultant whose background includes more than 25 years of national and international experience. Murphy’s background combines the three worlds of corporate leadership, academia and management consulting. She has served as an executive in two Fortune 500 corporations, served on the graduate faculty of the University of San Francisco, and provided consulting services to 250 organizations over the course of 20 years. Past clients include the Stanford Medical School, U.S. Air Force, Jet Propulsion Lab and Kaiser Permanente. Murphy wrote the MGMA-published four-book series, Maximizing Performance Management, and is also the author of several other titles, including In the Company of Women, written with coauthor Pat Heim, PhD. Translated into several languages, In the Company of Women has been featured on Good Morning America, Time Magazine, usatoday.com and the British Broadcasting Corporation, and was once selected as Harvard Business School’s Book of the Month. Murphy’s advanced degrees include a master’s in business administration, a master’s in organization development and a doctorate in organizational systems. In 2004, Vanderbilt University honored her with a lifetime achievement award.
