Susan Longley, M.Ed., CPCC, has been coaching since 2000.
She is a former teacher with sixteen years of teaching experience, degrees in English and Education, and additional post-graduate work in Teaching English as a Second Language, Journalism, and Cross-Cultural Studies.

She started her first business, a tutoring service, in 1988, and started consulting with small business owners in 1992. She was trained as a coach by The Coaches Training Institute, and received her CPCC certification in 2001.

She is the former Associate Editor of Educational Studies, an academic journal in the foundations of education, formerly headquartered at Georgia State University.