FAQs for working with Susan Axelrod
‘What Do You Do?’
This is the question I get asked most often. The answer is simple:
I teach people about the Power of Giving. I do this through speaking programs, by working with Financial and Legal Professionals to enrich their client relationships, by working with nonprofits to deepen their donor relationships and when asked, by personal coaching in philanthropy. My message is always founded in Prosperity Consciousness--thinking expansively, abundantly, creatively about money offers anyone opportunities beyond what their minds can currently conceive.
Here are my Service Lines:
I am a paid professional speaker. The size of an audience is not the most important thing to me-I can speak in an intimate setting, or to a lecture hall full of people. What matters is that the people are brought together by an insane drive to create positive change in our world. I discount my speaking fee to organizations that generate their own audience filled with people who want to make a difference.
I am a GIVING Advisor. Here's how I work with you:
Individuals: I help people figure out what is deeply meaningful to them and create a plan for GIVING-impact for the rest of their lives, resulting in a lasting legacy. I call this GIVING-Coaching and yes, people pay me for this. This is highly personalized and customized work. I work with wealthy people and ‘regular’ people. You do not have to be wealthy to GIVING, GIVE ANYTHING AND YOU ARE a philanthropist! you JUST have to want to create positive change in our world.
Advisors: I offer speaking programs and personal engagement to help you deepen your client relationships through conversations ABOUT GIVING. Often this involves teaching about ‘intentional’ giving. I charge a speaking fee for programs and/or a personal GIVING-Coaching fee for you and/or clients. The coaching work is highly personalized and customized work.
Nonprofits: Working with nonprofit decision-makers, I teach high-level strategic personal solicitation methods in a coaching environment. Also, I work privately and quietly with high-level administrators responsible for fundraising who would like TO FEEL MORE CONFIDENT. Contact me personally to discuss at SUSAN@CONFIDENT-LIFE.COM.
Businesses: Through speaking programs and coaching I teach methods for incorporating Philanthropy into your business model. This I highly personalized and customized work for which I charge coaching fees depending on your needs and desired outcomes.
‘What are the outcomes I can expect when I work with you?’
Regardless of the service line, every person who comes into contact with me will be offered an opportunity to contemplate what is deeply and personally meaningful in their lives and will be offered guidance about a philanthropic context-what you can do to impact that cause, organization or purpose.
Largely, I work with a very simple plan of action to encourage and guide clients to take actual steps towards their own philanthropic plan [simple and actual steps are key words in my world].
Through my speaking, you can expect that an audience will leave feeling stirred desire to make positive change in the world and with inspiration to take steps and make something happen.
Through my coaching, you can expect direct and impassioned guidance to help you think through and take action towards creating the positive change you articulate. My style is direct—we only have so much time on earth and days turn into months and years all too quickly. I motivate and strongly encourage people to take action and carry out their plans. Stay-in-touch coaching facilitates this.
‘What are the benefits to working with you?’
Another simple answer: Making something actually happen.
I hear constantly how people wish and want; I help them do. Much of my work has come from people having wanted to do something for a long time, but ‘not knowing how to make it happen.’
It’s hard for me to describe in a quantifiable way what it will feel like for you to engage in a GIVING-commitment in our world about something that matters deeply to you. Honestly, I don’t have a good answer for this. Attend one of my speaking programs and you’ll learn more. All I can tell you is that people thank me from the bottom of their hearts when we’re done.
‘How much do you charge?’
I have set speaking fees and set coaching package fees-call me and let me know what might interest you and we can discuss; I promise not to ‘sell.’
For all of my individualized work, the truth is that I base fees on energy spent, not time spent. I can tell you that everyone who engages with me is literally supporting the world, because organizations and causes are impacted every time. Each person plays a real part in the next engagement [as people before you played a part in your engagement with me]. In this way, we actually are all connected. :)