Speaking

Stories from the bench, lessons for the boardroom.

Susan speaks nationally and internationally on what actually moves a laboratory — told through four decades of real events, not theory. Audiences leave with things they can change on Monday.

Topics

What she speaks on.

Laboratory management & operations Running the whole engine — quality, budgets, throughput, and the daily decisions that separate steady labs from struggling ones. Keynote · Workshop

Efficiency and the automated lab What automation, middleware, and autovalidation really deliver — and the adoption mistakes that quietly cancel the benefit. Keynote · Panel

Leading through staffing shortages On-the-job training, cross-training, and retention — how to keep a lab fully functional when the hiring pool isn't. Workshop

Growing into leadership The stories behind the book — openness, curiosity, authority, and influence, for anyone stepping from the bench into leading people. Keynote

Susan Dawson teaching technologists at an analyzer screen

On stage

Practitioner first, speaker second.

Every talk is built from events that actually happened on her benches — the automation go-live that nearly stalled, the training program that outperformed the hiring budget, the supervisor who grew into a director. Susan has presented on best practice in laboratory automation to national and international audiences, and exchanges ideas with every room she meets.

FormatsKeynote · Half-day workshop · Panel · Virtual

AudiencesLab leadership · Associations · Manufacturers

Based inChicago — travels worldwide

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Stories from the bench, lessons for the boardroom.

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Practitioner first, speaker second.

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