Profile

Susann is volunteering as Managing Director of the Berlin School, specialising in its organisation, finances and academic structure. She brings to the school a wide range of experience from management positions within the creative industry on the agency side as well as from the client and institutional side.

Biography

After two years of working as a marketing assistant in the chemical industry, Susann moved to the agency side where she worked as an account executive for Grey and Ogilvy One for five years. She then switched roles again and became head of an in-house agency of a leading German department store chain. During her 8 years in the retail business, she led two companies through major mergers, affecting and influencing the brands and departments she had to lead.

Moving to Berlin in 2001, Susann became managing director of the Art Directors Club and took on the role of building a new structure and developing new business for the organisation. For ten years, she ran the non-profit. In this position, she also played a key role in the founding and development of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership.

Susann went to the University of Düsseldorf in the north western part of Germany. She graduated with concentrations in French and Spanish literature and linguistics as well as in educational science.