About Susan Harrow

Susan Harrow, media trainer and martial artist, is a black belt in Aikido, a former tennis pro with a high school teaching credential and author of the best-selling book, Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul (HarperCollins).

She is an expert in verbal self-defense for girls 12-24+ so that they can get what they want in any situation at school, home, work, and social situations.

She’s also a contributor to Huffington Post and Psychology Today. For nearly 10 years Susan consulted for Pacific Bell Directory/SBC/AT&T and put 3,000 job candidates through role plays analyzing their verbal, facial and body language to determine if they had the chops for high-pressure sales or C-Suite positions.

For the past 28 years she's run Harrow Communications, a worldwide media consultancy, where she's trained thousands of people in verbal and non-verbal communication from Fortune 500 CEOs to celebrity chefs to prepare them for TV, radio and print interviews on CBS’ 60 Minutes, CNN, Fox News, GMA, NPR, The New York Times, WSJ, O, Vanity Fair, Parade, People, Inc., Fortune, etc.

She's been featured, quoted or profiled in: The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Inc., CNN, Advertising Age, Woman’s Day, Ladies’ Home Journal, Women’s Wear Daily, Entrepreneur, Salon Magazine, Pink, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Orlando Sentinel, and Investor’s Business Daily, and on CNBC, NPR, and national/syndicated TV and radio including the CNBC special, The Oprah Effect.