Suzane Van Amburgh
Founder and Principal
About
Space To Move consultancy is based in Portland Oregon and was established in 2007. Founder and principal is Suzane Van Amburgh. Services include:
- Strategic Communications - Consulting services
- Embodied Learning - Professional development programs
- Balance and Safe Falling - Classes and workshops
I am a strategic thinker who collaborates with you or your team to bring forward innovative solutions aligned with your strategic goals. I practice deep listening skills to elicit your organizational requirements and illuminate the space you want to move to.~ Suzane Van AmburghAreas of Expertise
What do people look to Suzane Van Amburgh for?
Strategic Communications
Consulting services in brand development, internal communications and marketing.
Clients include:
Portland State University:
The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies
Birankai North America
Feldenkrais Educational Foundation of North America
The Gluten Free Neighborhood
Embodied Learning
Professional development presentation/ training.
Original programs include:
Embodied Resilience
Aikido for Attorneys
Make Peace with Your Blind Spot
Clients:
Stoel Rives
Organization Development Network (ODN- Oregon)
Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA)
Humanistic Management Conference
NIA Now
MetaSkills/ Banfield
Sustainable Northwest
Balance and Safe Falling
Original programs include:
The Balance Lab
The Balance Challenge
Learn to Fall Safely
Group workshops and individual lessons available.
Projects
A selection of recent communications projects:
Portland State University
Judaic Studies Program
2018 - Present
Space To Move contracted to develop a strategy and approach to achieve the Academic Director's goals to build engagement, visibility, and a cohesive "brand" for the program's offerings.
The Judaic Studies Program's existence and mission is a collaboration of the University and multiple community partners. Stewarding this balance of stakeholders is an essential element to developing communications strategy, outreach projects, and event promotion plans. Community engagement, woven with the education of students, is one of the defining characteristics of this organization.
Deliverables include:
Plan to grow the program
Workflow tools, matched to the people and the work
Road map for the department’s projectsScholarship promotion PR kit (hard copy and digital)
Birankai North America
2018 - Present
Board of Directors - Member Communications portfolio
Suzane Van Amburgh serves on the Board of Directors of Birankai North America (2018- present). Her area of focus is organizing the community's member communications to align with its strategic goals (which includes serving the members' needs).
- Past projects include developing a member survey (2017-2018) to illuminate why newer members are attracted to Aikido practice and why they stick with it.
- Current project: Plan the content and format of the organization's first web based "annual report."
FEFNA
Feldenkrais Educational Foundation of North America
2006 - 2016
- Event planning and communications/marketing strategy for 6 professional development conferences (2007-2016)
- PMO function: established project procedures and templates for proposals, charters and budgets (2015-16)
- Project Manager for the Feldenkrais Science Network website (feldscinet.org): initial project definition, development and launch (2009), follow up upgrade project (2015).
- "The Learning Survey": Membership survey to assess professional learning and development activities and delivery formats (2015)
My consulting approach is informed by my experience as an Aikido instructor and a somatic educator. I enjoy helping people come to peace in themselves and discover the space to move in their organization, their body movement, and on collaborative projects. ~ Suzane Van Amburgh
reach out
I'm based in Portland Oregon, available for remote work, and travel periodically for teaching engagements and presentations.
© 2018