Ellen Spencer Susman

Ellen Spencer Susman has more than 25 years of experience as a television journalist. She has been a reporter, anchor, host, producer and moderator. She recently hosted and produced Balancing Your Life with Ellen Susman, an award winning television series that aired nationally on PBS. The program was groundbreaking in its mission to address the choices and challenges women face juggling career, family, marriage, and motherhood. The show is ethnically and professionally diverse and the guests offer solutions about work/life balance. Guests included women like tennis legend Chris Evert, astronaut Eileen Collins, artist Elizabeth Murray, singer Rosanne Cash, and NRDC President Frances Beinecke . Balancing Your Life has won two Accolade Awards and been nominated for an Emmy.

Susman began her career in 1977 as one of the original hosts of Philadelphia’s KYW-TV Evening/PM Magazine .In 1982 she founded a Speakers Bureau in Bermuda, which produced conferences for multi-national corporations. In 1994, Ellen created, produced and hosted “The Aspen Institute Television Show,” which focused on leadership issues with people in media, business and government. In 1996, EXEN, the Executive Education Network, asked Ellen to moderate a monthly program called “Experience Teaches”, which featured guests such as Bob Galvin from Motorola and leadership guru Warren Bennis in live 2-hour satellite broadcasts with as many as 600 participants participating in open forum discussions. From 1998-2002, Susman moderated a monthly, live conference on the Internet. ”Leaders Forum “ provided insight into leadership development and techniques to clients as diverse as Lands End, The Veteran’s Administration and Protective Life Insurance Company.

In 2001, Ellen became fascinated with the challenges facing women in the workplace. With support from companies such as Reliant Energy, JP Morgan Chase, KPMG and others, The Myth of Superwoman conference was a sellout, with 300 women attending one week after 9/11. Her 13-week series, Superwoman Central, featured 26 Houston-area women and aired on HoustonPBS in 2005.
Recently, Susman edited a memoir based on her late sister’s life as a photojournalist in the Middle East. “Danger Pay,” was published by the University of Texas, in November, 2008. Since then, Ellen has presented numerous readings and held book signings in Colorado, California, New Jersey, New York, and her home state of Texas. 
Susman is also a regular contributor to the Huffington Post about work-life balance, women and animals.

Keynote Topics:
Celebrate Your Strength: Women Balancing Work and Family
Leader-Ship: Navigating the Course
Moderating: Facilitating the Process

Websites:
www.balancingyourlifeonline.com
www.leadersforum.com

Margaret Winchell Miller

Ellen brought me on board in the spring of 2005 to help
coordinate SuperwomanCentral, her first public television
show–and I’m still here!  My work encompasses every aspect of Balancing
Your Life… locating interview prospects, researching backgrounds,
writing questions, coordinating shoots, handling publicity and fund raising,
scheduling public appearances, speeches, and presentations, editing, and
traveling to New York, Colorado, and California to assist Ellen as she
interviews the most amazing women you can imagine.  It’s a whirlwind
of a job, but I love it!

I’m a professional writer with a background in teaching
and a Master of Fine Arts.  My company, The Business of Words,
is an enterprise dedicated to helping clients promote themselves and their
businesses.  For over 25 years I’ve collaborated with companies of
all sizes to produce creative copy that gets results.

Lastly, I’m the mother of two creative, handsome boys–Blake,
a writer, and Evan, a photographer.  I try to stay balanced by running
several times a week (I’m training for a marathon), studying (I’m in a
graduate program at Rice University), and settling down regularly with
a glass of wine and a good book.

Tova Kronick

Tova hails from Montreal, Canada and comes to Houston
with over fifteen years of television experience.  As a segment producer
in the field, an associate producer on set, and an award-winning short
film director, she has shared her passion for the literary arts, women’s
issues, and youth subjects in several acclaimed Canadian TV series.  These
have included BookTelevision and Girltalk for Bravo (in Canada/Trio in
the USA), for the CBC and for The Women’s Television Network.  Recently,
she worked on the ABC series, Supernanny, covering struggles faced by
selected families in the Houston area.

Now a Houston resident herself, Tova is excited
to be a part of Balancing Your Life
and delighted to join Ellen Susman in shining the spotlight on so many
accomplished and inspirational women!