Despite her knocking knees, Sue got her first audience applause at age 10 after reciting a poem at church.  Drawn to the front of the room, she started teaching a personal growth program in her late 20s.

By 34, she was developing and conducting corporate workshops. At 42, she traveled Alberta as a paid speaker with topics such as stress reduction, conflict resolution, and team development.

A self-taught educator, Sue began the first of her 15 years of part time teaching at MacEwan University. Her topics - business writing, public speaking, and study skills.

In 1999 she published her first best-selling book, Tips & Tools for Student Success. It was followed in 2003 by her award-winning Tips & Tools to Speak with Confidence.

For her 50th birthday, Sue successfully challenged herself to perform 5 minutes of stand-up comedy on Amateur Night at Yuk Yuks.  She has worked as a voice-over artist, composed music, coached budding speakers, and appeared as an expert on TV and radio shows and on podcasts.

Thriving since her near-death experience in 2007 and bouts of cancer in 2011 and 2012, Sue published her memoir about those experiences, Magnificent Misery – From Adversity to Ecstasy in 2015. She has since launched her app, The Magnificence Mentor - a free download.

Her latest book is The Healing Call of Cancer.

Her passion now involves inspiring others to Be their magnificent selves – to move from survival to thrival. (Oh and devour multiple soft ice cream cones with her twin granddaughters!)