About Action Symphony

Action Symphony is a coaching and training firm committed to unleashing potential for businesses and individuals. We work with our clients to clarify their goals and create powerful action plans that yield unprecedented results. Our programs are designed to boost job and life satisfaction and to maximize productivity, profit and overall effectiveness. Our team of skilled professionals coach, lead team-building sessions and facilitate meetings to yield outstanding results for individuals and businesses.

Action Symphony has consistently achieved its mission—to spark people’s potential—while serving thousands of clients across industries ranging from high tech to medical, retail to semiconductor, construction to finance, and everything in between!
Active members of professional organizations, our facilitators have been featured at:

Bay Area Coaches Conference: Coaching Techniques
International Coach Federation, Monterey Chapter: Coaching Techniques
Project Management Institute, Bay Area Chapter: Negotiate Your Way to Better Results at Work
Lighthouse Venture Forum: Leadership on Your Feet
Internationally, through telecourse.com: Energy Call: Effective Ways to Re-Energize Your Life in 1 Hour

Sue Brenner, PMP, PCC

Sue Brenner, founder and CEO of Action Symphony, is certified through The Coaches Training Institute and is recognized as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation. She also holds a Project Management Professional certification (PMP) through the Project Management Institute. Sue combines a background in consulting, coaching, and project management with extensive experience in training, facilitation and team building, which enables her to work with diverse individuals across various industries. Her clients include CEOs, executives, managers, leaders, sales associates, engineers, coaches, doctors and entrepreneurs, and companies such as The AdWorks, Deloitte & Touche, ST Microelectronics, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard. Sue’s commitment, enthusiasm and expertise inspire results in business and balance in life. She specializes in working with leaders who are ready to take the next step in their business, career, relationships or life satisfaction.

Prior to developing Action Symphony, Sue held the positions of Experiential Learning Manager at Catalyst Consulting Team and Seminar Leader/Consultant at Cadence Management in Silicon Valley, California. At Cadence, Sue worked with companies such as Roche, Verizon, Novellus, AMD, Logitech, Plantronics, Seagate, and PG&E. She has had the privilege of working with and gaining training from some of the best leaders in the management consulting and project management industries.

In addition to her seasoned business background, Sue is an expression of fun, focus and vitality, inviting aliveness en route toward greater success. She delights in designing compelling practices that make intended future outcomes a reality. Sue offers dynamic tools to dramatically increase learning, effectiveness and fulfillment on the job, and her approach empowers individuals and groups to access their personal best. As a result, her clients experience stronger communication skills, less stress, greater productivity, more focus, renewed balance between work and personal life, and an ability to reach goals faster. Sue’s standard of excellence requires her clients to go beyond what they’ve tried in the past both for business and in life.

Sue’s undergraduate work consists of a BA in Psychology (with Honors) with a Writing Emphasis from University of California at Santa Cruz, and a Graduate Certificate in Theatre Arts. A published writer whose work can be seen locally at Silicon Valley Companies and electronically across the globe, she is also active in professional organizations and regularly delivers both public and private speeches. Recent public speaking engagements include Negotiate Your Way to Better Results at Work for the Project Management Institute, Bay Area Chapter, and coaching workshops for the International Coaching Federation, Monterey, California, and the Bay Area Coaches Conference. In her free time, Sue enjoys reading, writing, and walking on the beach with her husband and daughter.