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Clarity • Balance • What’s Next
Susan K. Laird

Clarity for
what comes next.

Life changes. Sometimes by choice. Sometimes without warning. Today Transitions provides thoughtful, experienced coaching and support for adults navigating change, making important decisions, and creating what comes next.

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Susan K. Laird

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Meet Susan K. Laird, DNP, RN, BCPA, CPC, GC-C

Susan is a professional coach, registered nurse, Board Certified Patient Advocate, and Certified Grief Counselor with decades of experience in healthcare, leadership, communication, public health, and major life transitions. Her approach is compassionate, practical, confidential, and centered on helping clients identify what matters most.

Her approach is whole-person and non-formulaic. She helps clients step away from the noise, identify what matters, understand available choices, and decide what comes next with greater clarity and confidence.

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Stories Of Clarity, Growth & Change

Susan provided a trusted space to reflect, explore new perspectives, and recognize my strengths. As my reflections led me toward a new course for my life, she seamlessly pivoted with me, helping me see new possibilities and approach my next chapter with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose. I’m truly grateful for her thoughtful guidance during such an important time of transition.

Michael Carter

Marketing Manager

Susan helped me gain clarity during a pivotal moment. She guided me through the stress, decision-making, and emotional complexity of leaving a long federal career, helping me recognize that my leadership strengths were not limited to one environment. Instead, she encouraged me to confidently leverage and transfer those strengths into new professional arenas.

David Lee

Entrepreneur

As a coach and mentor, Susan always tells you what you need to hear, even when the truth is uncomfortable. She is one of the rare people who can do this while still building you up. She brings a wealth of life and leadership experience to her work, which is foremost and always focused on you, the person she is talking to right now.

James Walker

Teacher

After twenty-six years of federal service as a Lead Health Scientist, preparing for a major career transition felt both exciting and daunting. Working with Susan was transformative. As a former CDC leader herself, she understood my world immediately — the culture, the demands, and the identity that comes with decades of public health readiness and emergency response. Her insight into federal-to-civilian transitions provided exactly the grounding I needed.

Lead Health Scientist

Former CDC Leader

Her coaching gave me renewed confidence, clarity of purpose, and the practical mindset needed to step boldly into my next chapter. Susan is thoughtful, accessible, intuitive, and exceptionally skilled at guiding leaders through major life and career transitions. I am deeply grateful for her support.

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