Suzanne Hawkes

Suzanne Hawkes is an equity-centred management consultant, leadership trainer, facilitator, and ICF-certified coach. She has supported stakeholder engagement and dialogue, organizational planning and change initiatives across the U.S., Canada and overseas for 25 years, for a range of corporate, governmental and not-for-profit clients. Her vision: a multi-racial, cross-sectoral network of collaborative, service-oriented leaders working across difference to achieve transformational change.  

In addition to running her own company, Convergence Strategies, Suzanne is the sole Canadian trainer with the Rockwood Leadership Institute and a senior associate of California-based InPartnership Consulting, both Black-led organizations focused on leadership and racial equity. She is a co-instructor of the Leadership Essentials Certificate program at SFU, as well as Equity Essentials: Self, Power and Privilege at SFU, in partnership with the Provincial Health Services Authority. She is also an associate with the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, and has a master’s degree in resource and environmental management from SFU, focused on Indigenous and community-led resource management.

Suzanne is a certified Integral Facilitator, and is certified to lead the Interpersonal Leadership Styles inventory, the Diamond Power Index, and the Intercultural Development Inventory, all tools aimed at supporting leadership and collaboration across difference. She is a director of Blue House Investments Inc. in the U.S. and Canada, and serves on the board of the contemporary dance company Animals of Distinction, based in Montreal. 

Suzanne lives with her blended family on the beautiful unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, also known as Vancouver.