Suzanne Mayo Frindt

Suzanne is a co-founder and Principal of 2130 Partners. She is a recognized speaker on the topics of Accelerate Your Leadership™ and Productive Interactions™, addressing various organizations around the world in such diverse environments as indigenous women leaders in Peru, college students in China, and women entrepreneurs in the Middle East. The U.S. State Department tapped Suzanne to address the 2006 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Businesswomen’s Summit in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. In March 2007, she was named one of “20 Top Women to Watch” by Churm Media, and was featured in the March 15 cover story in OC Metro Magazine. In 2009 she was asked to co-create and teach curriculum for “The World Academy for the Future of Women” at the SIAS International University in China.

Suzanne was a Group Chair for Vistage International for almost 20 years and is now a Chair Emeritus. Vistage is a professional organization dedicated to increasing the effectiveness and enhancing the lives of chief executives. Vistage and its affiliates have more than 24,000 members in 20 countries, making it the world’s largest executive coaching organization for small and midsize businesses. 

Suzanne and her husband, Dwight, have also been investors and activists for The Hunger Project for over 20 years. They travel extensively throughout Africa, India, Bangladesh and Latin America to assist the organization in mobilizing local people to create lasting society-wide progress in health, education, nutrition, family incomes and the empowerment of women. As a next level of commitment to the sustainable end of world hunger Suzanne became the CEO of The Hunger Project in May 2017. In 2020 she returned to 2130 Partners and is currently taking on new projects and clients.

Suzanne has an MBA from the University of California, Irvine, and has a deep personal commitment to ongoing growth development in a broad range of disciplines including being ordained as an interfaith minister in 2005.