Maxwell Group, LLC

Leadership development for executives, managers, and teams navigating real business change.

Suzanne L. Maxwell, PhD, PCC partners with C-suite leaders, senior managers, and teams to clarify goals, strengthen communication, align people, and turn complex transitions, mergers, and transformation challenges into practical action plans.

25+ yearsin advising leaders and business consulting experience
PhD + PCCdoctoral insight with ICF-certified coaching credentials
Coachingfor executives, senior managers, teams, and professionals
Globalexperience across the United States, Canada, and Europe

Why Maxwell Group

When leadership is complicated, the work needs to be practical.

Leaders are often expected to make decisions, influence people, and move work forward while roles, expectations, and organizational pressure are shifting. Maxwell Group gives clients a focused space to clarify what matters, translate complexity into action, and lead with confidence when the stakes are high.

Suzanne’s work combines Big 4 consulting rigor, executive coaching, doctoral-level social psychology insight, and more than 25 years of real-world partnership with leaders and organizations.

Services

Coaching and consulting built around executive realities and organizational outcomes.

Support can focus on C-suite leadership, individual leaders, teams, strategic planning, organizational transformation, M&A integration, leadership development, and experiential leadership programs including equine assisted learning and coaching.

One-on-one executive coaching conversation in a modern professional setting.

Executive and Leadership Coaching

Suzanne coaches senior leaders, newly promoted executives, managers, and professionals through role shifts, expanded scope, high-visibility transitions, and complex organizational dynamics.

  • Clarify leadership goals and decision priorities
  • Navigate promotions, visibility, and role expansion
  • Strengthen communication and working relationships
  • Translate insight into practical leadership behavior
Leadership team collaborating during a facilitated strategy session.

Strategic Planning and Facilitation

Facilitation helps executive groups and teams establish direction, build alignment, improve communication, and move from discussion into focused action.

  • C-suite and senior team facilitation
  • Strategic planning and executive roundtables
  • Board retreats and leadership workshops
  • Team alignment, cohesion, and accountability
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Management Consulting and Transformation

With deep management consulting and project leadership experience, Suzanne helps organizations address ambiguity, change resistance, human capital priorities, and complex implementation challenges.

  • C-suite advisory and human capital strategy
  • Organizational transformation and change management
  • M&A integration and implementation planning
  • Workshop design and delivery
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Experiential Leadership Programs

Experiential learning opportunities deepen self-awareness, communication, leadership presence, and authentic collaboration.

  • Optional equine assisted learning and coaching
  • Leadership development
  • Team building
  • Communication and awareness
  • Learning through direct experience

Approach

A practical process for turning insight into action that holds up under real pressure.

Suzanne is known for creating psychologically safe environments for honest dialogue while maintaining the accountability needed for meaningful leadership and organizational results.

A leadership coaching conversation focused on identifying the core issue and desired result.

Define the real issue, stakes, and desired result.

Clients identify the leadership, business, team, or organizational challenge that needs attention now.

A collaborative team session focused on aligning goals, expectations, and behaviors.

Connect people, priorities, and expectations.

The work focuses on what needs to shift so leaders and teams can communicate, decide, and collaborate more effectively.

A professional developing a structured action plan in a focused work setting.

Create a practical plan and follow through.

Clients develop targeted action plans that support progress, accountability, and measurable outcomes.

A professional reflecting and documenting progress to support repeatable success.

Build the ability to succeed again.

The goal is not only to address the current issue, but to help clients create repeatable leadership and organizational success over time.

About Suzanne

Suzanne L. Maxwell, PhD, PCC

Management Consultant, Executive Leadership Coach, and Former Big 4 Consulting Leader at Maxwell Group, LLC. Equine Assisted Coach at Stable Leadership.

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Suzanne Maxwell built her career inside the rooms where major organizational decisions get made, including leadership roles at KPMG USA, KPMG's International Headquarters and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Her coaching practice extends that experience with a systems-level understanding of how organizations actually work

She brings doctoral-level insight in social psychology, an ICF Professional Certified Coach credential, and more than 25 years of executive partnership to help leaders navigate transitions, mergers, transformation, and moments of heightened visibility. Clients engage her to translate complexity into clear, practical action that can hold up under real organizational pressure.

An equine assisted coaching moment shown from the coach's perspective with a client and horse in a calm outdoor arena.

Education and certifications

  • Texas A&M UniversityPhD, Sociology (Social Psychology)
  • University of MemphisMA, Sociology (Criminology)
  • University of MemphisBA, Sociology
  • International Coach FederationProfessional Certified Coach (PCC)
  • UT Dallas, Naveen Jindal School of ManagementGraduate Certificate, Executive and Professional Coaching
  • Southern Methodist UniversityAdvanced Graduate Certificate, Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • LodestarCertified Trauma-Informed Professional Coach
  • WBECSCertified Narrative Coach and Conversational Intelligence Practitioner
  • Moment InstituteCertified Integrated Development Coach Practitioner
  • Whole Being InstituteCertified Positive Psychology Coach
  • Additional credentialsCertified Professional Behavioral Analyst, TriMetrix Selection Specialist, Certified Leadership NLP Practitioner, and Approved Equine Facilitated Learning Instructor

Experience

A consulting and coaching career across executive leadership, strategy, transformation, and organizational change.

The Maxwell Group

Principal, executive coaching, organizational consulting, and leadership facilitation. Founded and sustained an executive coaching and consulting practice with repeat engagement across 10+ industries.

Southern Methodist University

Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor in Counseling, Dispute Resolution, and Coaching. Developed and delivered executive coaching curriculum aligned with ICF standards.

University of Texas at Dallas

Executive and group coach and faculty member in organizational behavior and coaching. Coached Executive MBA participants and co-developed executive coaching curricula.

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Principal Consultant in organizational change and CRM consulting. Led organizational change initiatives for large-scale system implementations and directed proposal development capabilities.

Pritchett and Associates

Principal in merger and acquisition consulting. Developed and executed M&A integration strategies with client leadership teams through complex transitions.

KPMG

Director in management consulting, organizational change, and professional development. Served in KPMG's USA Headquarters in Montvale NJ, their International Headquarters in Amsterdam NDL, progressing through multiple consulting leadership roles.

Arthur Young

Manager in human resources management consulting, focused on organizational design and human capital strategy.

Representative Clientele

Experience with complex organizations, senior leadership audiences, and measurable business challenges.

Named engagements

Representative engagements include American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, BNSF Railroad, Toyota, Ericsson, and Ben E. Keith.

Leadership audiences

Clients have included board, C-suite, and senior management leaders navigating transitions, strategic realignment, mergers, transformation, and heightened executive visibility.

Industries served

Experience spans aerospace and defense, financial services, energy, transportation, technology, government, food and beverage, nonprofit, professional services, healthcare, and higher education.

Recommendations

What colleagues and clients have said.

"Suzanne is a very effective business and leadership coach, one that focuses on the uniqueness of the situation, and then assists the client in developing action learning that benefits the organization and the individual in a results oriented manner."

Joe Philipp, Insight Consulting

"I have really enjoyed working with Suzanne. She is personable, has a high degree of integrity and brings creative solutions to the table. She is a great resource in many different areas."

Debra Keitzer Outlaw, Perryman Financial Advisory, Inc.

Contact

Start with a focused conversation about the challenge, the desired outcome, and the support needed.

For inquiries about executive leadership coaching, C-suite advisory, strategic planning and facilitation, organizational transformation, M&A integration, or equine assisted leadership development, contact Maxwell Group.